Rare Mark Van Stone The Evolution Of The Medieval Decorated Letter Poster Signed
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| Management number | 17488873 | Release Date | 2025/10/06 | List Price | $149.40 | Model Number | 17488873 | ||
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Product Description
"The Development of the Medieval Decorated Letter" is a four-color poster designed and printed in the 1980's by master illuminator and script historian Mark Van Stone. Each letter is in a different Medieval style, arranged in chronological order: the A is based on the earliest decorated letterforms, found in the 4th-century Codex Augusteus. The B, C, and D, are in 5th and 6th-century Italian and French manuscript styles, while the E comes from the early-6th-century Byzantine Vienna Dioscurides Codex. The F is from the Irish Cathach of St, Columba, and so on, till Z, based on a manuscript illuminated by Hans Holbein in the 16th century.
Two of the letters are copied directly from ancient manuscripts. (Can you guess which two?) The rest are what Carl Nordenfalk called "a kind of fake"... designed in 24 different, pure, original styles. Van Stone is a master calligrapher, and has a unique ability to discern the elements of a scribal design system and ma
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