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[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

This week, a little bit of Gothic with The Gothic Script of the Middle Ages by H. C. Schulz, printed in San Francisco by the Grabhorn Press in an edition of 71 copies for the publisher and first bibliographer of the Grabhorn Press David Magee in 1939. The type used is Fred Goudy's Deepdene Text, a blackletter typeface designed in the early 1930s to complement his humanist Deepdene typeface designed earlier. The two typefaces are not otherwise related in style. The book is printed in red, black, and blue, with a lovely gold-leaf initial T in the opening text.

This volume is a "leaf book": a book with content centered on the content of another book, or type of book, with a sample leaf from that other book included in the volume. In this case, a leaf from a late 14th-century manuscript Collectar is included in the publication. We don't know who H. C. Schulz is, but judging from the several other leaf books he produced with the Grabhorn Press, he must have been a collector and authority on manuscript books. Unfortunately, he also seems to have been a breaker of books, or at best a collector of broken books, which in turn encourages the breaking of books.

Schulz describes the leaf included here as made "probably in Northern France" and that "The writing is a very bold Gothic script in the best liturgical tradition, and a contrast to its heaviness is given by the fine pen ornamentation of the initials." Our copy of The Gothic Script of the Middle Ages is part of a gift from the estate of our dear friend Dennis Bayuzick.  

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick. 

View our other Typography Tuesday posts.

[cuties-in-codices]

floral initials

from a copy of plutarch’s de viris clarissimis. flanders, c. 1478-87

source: Ghent, University Library, Hs. 109

[artschoolglasses]

Manuscript Leaf with the Crucifixion in an Initial D, from a Book of Hours, Northern French, 1350

From the Met Museum

[gio-scrabbles]

🌑“Dark Side of the Space Colony Ark.”🌖

Happy Sonic X Shadow Generations release day (even though I can’t play until Tuesday)!!!! Here’s something I drew a while ago featuring Maria and Shadow looking cool af! I wanted to try out a new painting style.

[hdslibrary]

Framed

We found a glittering surprise when we opened this volume from 1501/02. The book contains the Latin text of the biblical book of Ezekiel, along with commentary by the 13th century Dominican priest, Hugh of St. Cher.

The decorated letter here (the only one found in this volume) has a frame border which itself echoes the framing of the biblical text by its commentary.

Biblia latina cum postillis Hugonis de s. Charo. [Basel : Johann Amerbach for Anton Koberger, 1498-1502]. (v.5)

[themonsterp]

[upennmanuscripts]

Ms. Codex 1560 is a complete New Testament with prologues, with extensive marginal notes, all of it written in the tiniest of scripts. Preceding the Bible text is a highly compressed lectionary, listing citations and minimal incipits in four columns. Probably written in England between 1235 and 1270.

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[gentlyepigrams]

Initial 'A'(fricam) formed of a gold and red dragon. BL Arundel MS 98; Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis (books 1-18); 12th century; Southern England; f.38r

[lunarsigilart]

An image dedicated to Ireland, the Emerald Isle, which has the poetic name Eire

[anglicanaformata]

[vulturesouls]

Initial V: Christ Refusing Admittance to the Foolish Virgins

France, text and illumination about 1285

Bute Master (Franco-Flemish, active about 1260 - 1290)

Getty Museum

[buggitino]

part 2 of kanamizu canon posting

[cuties-in-codices]

jonah climbing out of the great fish

historiated initial E from the grillinger bible, salzburg, c. 1428

source: Munich, BSB, Clm 15701, fol. 319v

[lacnunga]

hello fellow illuminated mediaeval manuscript peeps - does anyone remember the german (? pretty sure) mediaeval manual that was like an example book for scribes/illustrators to copy standardised ornamentals for manuscripts out of? its so bugging me that i cant remember how to find it again

edit: nvmd. i remembered. goettingen model book. ev out.

[davidstaple]

[zahramorningstar]

"A spiritual life does not mean escaping from the world but engaging with it more fully.

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The purpose of life is to learn, to grow, and to become more of who we truly are. The soul is on a journey of evolution, seeking higher states of consciousness and greater self-awareness.”

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~ Alice Bailey ~