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English: Mira calligraphiae monumenta (the 'Model Book of Calligraphy', Ms. 20, 86.MV.527) is an illuminated manuscript commissioned by Maximilian II in the 16th century.

From 1561 to 1562 Georg Bocskay, a Hungarian calligrpaher died 1575, created a Model Book of Calligraphy in Vienna to showcase his writing skills. About thirty years later, Emperor Rudolph II, Ferdinand's grandson, commissioned Joris Hoefnagel, a Flemish / Hungarian painter 1542 - 1600, to illuminate Bocskay's model book. From about 1591 to 1596 Hoefnagel added intricate illustrations of fruit, flowers, and insects to enhance the book's design. His interest in nature-inspired art aligned with Rudolph II's celebrated cabinet of curiosities. The collaboration between scribe and painter in the Model Book was highly unusual and influenced Netherlandish still life painting. Hoefnagel also included a section on constructing the alphabet in upper- and lowercase letters.

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In the 1500s, as printing became the most common method of producing books, intellectuals increasingly valued the inventiveness of scribes and the aesthetic qualities of writing. From 1561 to 1562, Georg Bocskay, the Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created this Model Book of Calligraphy in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him.
About thirty years later, Emperor Rudolph II, Ferdinand's grandson, commissioned Joris Hoefnagel to illuminate Bocskay's model book. Hoefnagel added fruit, flowers, and insects to nearly every page, composing them so as to enhance the unity and balance of the page's design. It was one of the most unusual collaborations between scribe and painter in the history of manuscript illumination.
Because of Hoefnagel's interest in painting objects of nature, his detailed images complement Rudolph II's celebrated Kunstkammer, a cabinet of curiosities that contained bones, shells, fossils, and other natural specimens. Hoefnagel's careful images of nature also influenced the development of Netherlandish still life painting.
In addition to his fruit and flower illuminations, Hoefnagel added to the Model Book a section on constructing the letters of the alphabet in upper- and lowercase.

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