Wednesday, 30 July 2008

early bird book

Spätgotisches Musterbuch des Stephan Schriber - BSB Cod.icon. 420


Stephan Schreiber's late gothic pattern book was produced in Urach in the (now) state of Baden-Württemberg in South-West Germany in 1494. It was dedicated to Count Eberhard (Eberhard the bearded, later first Duke) of Württemberg.

The parchment manuscript appears to be a manual of templates and/or a practice book containing partially completed sketches, painted and calligraphy initals, stylised floral decorative motifs, plant foliage tendrils, fantastic beast border drolleries, together with some gold and silver illumination work.


http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/codicon/Blatt_bsb00019746,00007.html?prozent=1

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