An Exuberant Renaissance Calligraphy Guide

Georg Bocskay, then secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I in Vienna, composed the manuscript over the course of 1561 and 1562. Rather than instruction, the manuscript provides a bombastic display of Bocskay’s skill, and showcases the artisan talent that the emperor was able to attract. On one of these black pages—there are six in the 184-page manuscript—Hoefnagel drew a sloth, an example of the New World life the emperor was attracted to.

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