Tag: Calligraphy

Plates signed by Agostino Tensini from the calligraphy manual “La uera regola dello scriuere : utile à giouani.” Published in 1680 and then around 1800. This copy having been signed by Giacomo Formento and dated 1789, it would appear to be the 1680 edition.

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Page 5. Collection of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/laueraregoladell00tens/page/n4/mode/1up
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Page 7. Collection of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/laueraregoladell00tens/page/n6/mode/1up
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Page 9. Collection of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/laueraregoladell00tens/page/n8/mode/1up
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Glorious illuminations from “Sefer Tehillim” which was published in Tehran in 1383. Hebrew with interlinear Persian translation. Maʻṣūmī Tihrānī, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, editor. Bahman, Mahdī, calligrapher.

Image 593 (detail).
Image 593 (detail). Collection of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.loc.gov/resource/plmp.m118/?sp=593&fbclid=IwAR1Bx5MbS8gKSYOPDbLynsbflxHvQEHSpuU-ngGu5qOkbDbxWtnBtYMDJRE&r=-1.724,
Image 597 (detail).
Image 597 (detail). Collection of the Library of Congress http://www.LOC.gov. In the public domain. via https://www.loc.gov/resource/plmp.m118/?sp=597
Image 518 (detail).
Image 518 (detail). Collection of the Library of Congress http://www.LOC.gov. In the public domain. via https://www.loc.gov/resource/plmp.m118/?sp=518&r=-1.412,0,3.825,1.281,0
Image 598 (detail).
Image 598 (detail). Collection of the Library of Congress http://www.LOC.gov. In the public domain. via https://www.loc.gov/resource/plmp.m118/?sp=598

Renaissance calligraphy and botany all in one place from the illuminated manuscript “Mira calligraphae monumenta”. Calligraphy done in 1561 and 1562 by Georg Bocksay, secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. Flora and fauna added thirty years later by Joris Hoefnagel at the request of Ferdinand’s grandson Rudolph II.

"Speckled wood, talewort, garden pea, and lantern plant. "
“Speckled wood, talewort, garden pea, and lantern plant.” Collection of the Getty Museum. Part of their Open Content Program. Fair use license. via https://mymodernmet.com/mira-calligraphiae-monumenta/
“Spider, love-in-a-mist, Potter wasp, and red currant.”
“Spider, love-in-a-mist, Potter wasp, and red currant.” Collection of the Getty Museum. Part of their Open Content Program. Fair use license. via https://mymodernmet.com/mira-calligraphiae-monumenta/
"A quarter-sized Lord’s Prayer is poised below an intricately knotted text."
“A quarter-sized Lord’s Prayer is poised below an intricately knotted text.” Collection of the Getty Museum. Part of their Open Content Program. Fair use license. via https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/illluminated-manuscript-calligraphy-guide?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=85ee16ea90-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_28_Not_L
A vessel of words, with an imaginary wasp.
A vessel of words, with an imaginary wasp. Collection of the Getty Museum. Part of their Open Content Program. Fair use license. via https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/illluminated-manuscript-calligraphy-guide?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=85ee16ea90-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_28_Not_L
A veritable fireworks display of words, and a fat tomato.
A veritable fireworks display of words, and a fat tomato. Collection of the Getty Museum. Part of their Open Content Program. Fair use license. via https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/illluminated-manuscript-calligraphy-guide?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=85ee16ea90-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_28_Not_L

These are a mere sampling of what is contained in this manuscript. Please check out this link if you’d like to look at more: http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1487/joris-hoefnagel-and-georg-bocskay-mira-calligraphiae-monumenta-flemish-and-hungarian-fols-1-129-written-1561-1562-illumination-added-about-1591-1596/?dz=0.5000,0.5000,0.50