WAGNER, Andreas. Gutte ordnung unnd grüntliche Vürweissung Artlichs unnd zierlichs schreibens...Seinen Schuelern zu guttem ververtiget . Ingolstadt, 20 t h May 1577.
WAGNER, Andreas. Gutte ordnung unnd grüntliche Vürweissung Artlichs unnd zierlichs schreibens...Seinen Schuelern zu guttem ververtiget . Ingolstadt, 20 t h May 1577. 155 x 220 mm. CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. Single quire of 14 leaves. 28 pages of calligraphy in various Gothic scripts, in red and black, with elaborate decorative initials and penwork flourishes. (Decoration on half a dozen pages cut into.) Stitched, the outer bifolium (title and "Schlangenzug Versales") serving as wrappers. Red cloth slipcase. Provenance : acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1983. A characteristic Bavarian writing-book in the tradition of the Neudörffers of Nuremberg. Fraktur, chancery and cursive scripts, different alphabets, capital letters and initials are offered as examples to the Ingolstadt schoolchildren. Calligraphy and arithmetic went hand in hand in Northern European schools of the 16 t h and 17 t h century and the school- and writing-master Wagner therefore proudly calls himself on the title-page, "Burger unnd Rechenmaister zu Ingolstatt." Such manuscripts were produced in large numbers, especially in Germany, but intensive use in schools has prevented their survival and 16 t h -century examples are therefore VERY RARE.
WAGNER, Andreas. Gutte ordnung unnd grüntliche Vürweissung Artlichs unnd zierlichs schreibens...Seinen Schuelern zu guttem ververtiget . Ingolstadt, 20 t h May 1577.
WAGNER, Andreas. Gutte ordnung unnd grüntliche Vürweissung Artlichs unnd zierlichs schreibens...Seinen Schuelern zu guttem ververtiget . Ingolstadt, 20 t h May 1577. 155 x 220 mm. CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. Single quire of 14 leaves. 28 pages of calligraphy in various Gothic scripts, in red and black, with elaborate decorative initials and penwork flourishes. (Decoration on half a dozen pages cut into.) Stitched, the outer bifolium (title and "Schlangenzug Versales") serving as wrappers. Red cloth slipcase. Provenance : acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1983. A characteristic Bavarian writing-book in the tradition of the Neudörffers of Nuremberg. Fraktur, chancery and cursive scripts, different alphabets, capital letters and initials are offered as examples to the Ingolstadt schoolchildren. Calligraphy and arithmetic went hand in hand in Northern European schools of the 16 t h and 17 t h century and the school- and writing-master Wagner therefore proudly calls himself on the title-page, "Burger unnd Rechenmaister zu Ingolstatt." Such manuscripts were produced in large numbers, especially in Germany, but intensive use in schools has prevented their survival and 16 t h -century examples are therefore VERY RARE.
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