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Page from a remarkable book entitled Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy), the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe, the Croatian-born Georg Bocskay, and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel. In the early 1560's, while secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, Bocksay produced his Model Book of Calligraphy, showing off the wonderful range of writing style in his arsenal. Some 30 years later (and 15 years after the death of Bocskay), Ferdinand's grandson, who now owned the book, commissioned Hoefnagel to add his delightful illustrations. It would prove to be, as The Getty, who now own the manuscript, comment, "one of the most unusual collaborations between scribe and painter in the history of manuscript illumination". (Image source: The Getty)
- Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, v1. Tab 45 Mark Catesby
- Quack Pieter van der Borcht
- Surinam Caiman biting South American False Coral Snake Maria Sibylla Merian
- Basil Thyme, Poppy Anemone, and Myrtle Joris Hoefnagel
- Radula of Whelk Arthur E. Smith
- Like His Grandfather Francisco de Goya
- Plate 60, Echinidea Ernst Haeckel
- Plate 57, cirripedia Ernst Haeckel