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 File — Box: 5, Folder: 2

Göttingen Model Book Interpreted and Expanded., (1978)

Dates

  • (1978)

Scope and Contents

The folder contains an enlarged photocopy of the Göttingen Model Book Interpreted and Expanded by Frances Manola and four drafts for page 6. Drafts are undated. The last page of the book reads: “This book was written to explain & expand The Göttingen Model Book as translated by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, thereby making it useful as a how-to-do-it Manual of Illumination.” The original of the book is cataloged and in the library collection. See also General Calligraphy: “Practice Sheets, Folder 3” (Box 6, Folder 2), for samples of the book’s roundels and leaves and Teaching: “Illumination Instructions” (Box 9, Folder 13) for instruction on illuminating acanthus leaves in the style of the model book.

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English