The Göttingen Model Book: A facsimile edition and translations of a fifteenth-century illuminators' manual
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1972. Hardcover. Red stamped cloth, gilt letters on spine, gilt and red decorations on front cover; cream and color illus. dust jacket, 102 pp., color and BW illus. VG- (Ex-art library, with plastic spine label, i.d. marks on book block edges; marks on outermost pages incl. pocket at rear; old tape marks on covers; otherwise clean.). Item #157305
ISBN: 0826201024
Main text is in English. Facsimile text is in Rhenish Franconian dialect, with translations into modern German and English. "Here, reproduced in full-color facsimile and set within a scholarly discussion of its origin and influence, is a fifteenth-century manual for illuminators -- instructions for the compounding of inks and paints that border on alchemy and directions for their application that can guide the hand through the intricacies of ornamentation. This 'Model book' is the only surviving manuscript of its kind and provides detailed instruction for marginal illumination and the production of initial letters. The twenty-two illustrated faces of the eleven small leaves by an unknown master are reproduced to exact size." (dj) Scarce.
OCLC: 905448413
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