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Guide for Constructing the Tironian con and orum; Mira calligraphiae monumenta, about 1591-1596. Creator: Joris Hoefnagel.

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Guide for Constructing the Tironian con and orum; Mira calligraphiae monumenta, about 1591-1596. Tironian notes are a form of thousands of signs that were formerly used in a system of Roman shorthand dating from the 1st century BCE and named after Tiro, a personal secretary to Marcus Tullius Cicero, who is often credited as their inventor. Additional info: In the 1500s, as printing became the most common method of producing books, intellectuals increasingly valued the inventiveness of scribes and the aesthetic qualities of writing. From 1561 to 1562, Georg Bocskay, the court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created this Model Book of Calligraphy in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him. About thirty years later, Emperor Rudolph II, Ferdinand's grandson, commissioned Joris Hoefnagel to illuminate Bocskay's model book. Because of Hoefnagel's interest in painting objects of nature, his detailed images complement Rudolph II's celebrated Kunstkammer, a cabinet of curiosities that contained bones, shells, fossils, and other natural specimens. In addition to his fruit and flower illuminations, Hoefnagel added to the Model Book a section on constructing the letters of the alphabet in upper- and lowercase.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM24A75_349

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139,0Mo (11,9Mo) / 50,5cm x 69,0cm / 5960 x 8151 (300dpi)

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