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uwmspeccoll · 11 months

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Typography Tuesday

We return to our facsimile of a 16th-cnetury calligraphic manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, or Model Book of Calligraphy, written in 1561/62 by Georg Bocskay, the Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and illuminated 30 years later by Flemish painter Joris Hoefnagel for the grandson of Ferdinand I, Emperor Rudolph II. The manuscript was produced by Bocskay in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him. To complement and augment Bocskay's calligraphy, 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. Although the two never met, the manuscript has an uncanny quality of collaboration about it.

Our facsimile was the first facsimile produced from the collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It was printed in Lausanne, Switzerland by Imprimeries Reunies and published by Christopher Hudson in 1992.

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#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta #or Model Book of Calligraphy #Georg Bocskay #Joris Hoefnagel #illuminated manuscripts #manuscripts #manuscript facsimiles #facsimiles #calligraphy #letter forms #letters #J. Paul Getty Museum #Imprimeries Reunies #Christopher Hudson #Ferdinand I #Rudolph II

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minkstudios1-photoblog · 6 months

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Harbor portable pier detail © minkstudios 2023

#abstract photography #abstract #original photography #paint and rust #in the details #minkstudios #letter forms

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ryanseslow · 1 year

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Forward -> Forward -> simplified forms in a direction flow with a delicious palette

#mural #painting #ryanseslow #ryan seslow #nyc #letter forms #graffiti #minimal

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elizabetharzanisketchbook · 1 year

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fluid lowercase, 2023

#elizabeth arzani #elizabeth arzani drawings #pen and ink #artist on tumblr #lowercase #letter forms #fluid #research

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ruhlare · 6 months

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true love is when you give, but when it doesn't empty you. when your lover makes even your silence meaningful. when you are being held and holding your loved one in a liberating way.

#lovergirl ruhi in her best form hiii #my writing #love #letters

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ventique18 · 22 days

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Anyway here's the initial sketch of Farmer MalleYuu that inspired me to start developing a farming game. 🥔🥕🐮🐥 They just make me so happy tbh

It's my last semester in uni I'm trying to hold onto my remaining sanity

#I'm a full time employee who studies for uni during the evenings #I'm in my last semester of school #I do the dishes I do the laundry I do the cooking #God knows I'm TIRED #but I'm damn proud of myself for finding time to enjoy my little life #god damn it I'm tired #but twst makes me so happy #so I make a million love letters for it in the form of different media #i will write fanfics for malleus #i will make comics for malleus #i will illustrate for malleus #i will make games for malleus #he is my muse #twisted wonderland #malleus draconia #malleus x reader

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rocketbirdie · 3 months

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deranged picnic

#obsessed with how this game manages to maintain a consistent utterly unhinged vibe for its entire runtime.#this scene is immediately followed by him receiving a letter from his girlfriend saying she's breaking up with him.#he gets the letter from an eldritch abomination in the form of his mentor's face on the body of dead dog as it turns into magic dust.#also his gf broke up with him because he wasn't returning any of her messages while he was being tortured in a dungeon for four years.#which is actually how he finds out it's been four years. he's been under the impression that it's been like. 2 weeks lol #the guy on the left is perfectly alive and monologuing the whole time.#and he happens to be the same guy that made clones of himself and went on a crusade to eat chunks of the protagonist's hair.#sighh..... crisis core my beloved........#(derogatory)#my art <3 #ffvii #crisis core #oh god i forgot his scar. nobody look. don't look. you don't see shit.

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its-flame-art · 6 months

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“wait a minute. wait a minute, Doc. ah... are you telling me that you built a time machine...out of a DeLorean?”

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anghraine · 2 months

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I love that Elizabeth and Darcy are so ready to effectively tell each other they're full of shit. This happens a bunch of times, but I was re-reading their conversation at the Netherfield Ball and they're both kind of refreshingly Done.

[Darcy:] “Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?” [Elizabeth:] “Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together; and yet, for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.” [Darcy:] “Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?” “Both,” replied Elizabeth archly; “for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the éclat of a proverb.” “This is no very striking resemblance of your own character, I am sure,” said he.

It's also pretty funny, because I suspect Darcy is thinking of this sort of thing in a later conversation at Rosings:

“You mean to frighten me, Mr Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me. But I will not be alarmed, though your sister does play so well. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.” “I shall not say that you are mistaken,” he replied, “because you could not really believe me to entertain any design of alarming you; and I have had the pleasure of your acquaintance long enough to know, that you find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which, in fact, are not your own.”

#i love elizabeth cloaking what is obviously a specific personal insult in ostensible solidarity that is in fact the opposite of solidarity #but also that darcy completely sees through it and just says so (then and implicitly later on)#and later in the netherfield ball conversation #darcy actively warns her that she shouldn't form her opinion on him bc at the moment it won't reflect well on either of them #which he is completely correct about—yet he doesn't connect this w/ his assumptions about her encouraging him at all #then or later!#also i appreciate that no matter how many times they challenge each other through social mechanisms #it just never breaks through their mutual arrogance lmao #but it builds until they reach the point where they just drop the bullshit altogether and say exactly what they think and believe #and doing /that/ with each other is what catapults the other one onto their respective character arcs #(w/ the hunsford scene and darcy's letter)#anghraine babbles #long post #austen blogging #fitzwilliam darcy #elizabeth bennet #otp of otps #pride and prejudice #jane austen

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thetimelordbatgirl · 1 month

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Look we can acknowledge the fact that the people who wrote letters in support of Brian Peck were not filled in on the situation and were misled by Brian on what the charges were and such, but can we fucking acknowledge that one of those letter writers actually victim blamed the then 15 Year Old Drake Bell with acting like he tempted Brian who would never do such things unless well, tempted.

#quiet on set #drake bell #brian peck #whoever wrote that letter...if i ever see you its on SIGHT #that is a CHILD #the only one responsable in that situation is the adult aka brian #and he used his position to put drake through hell #tho ngl dunno how you can defend any form of SA #given brian apparently went up to them and asked them and stuff #like yeah according to the two actors from boy meets world he misled them and stuff #BUT HOW YOU GONNA DEFEND A CRIME LIKE THAT-

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shiplessoceans · 11 months

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I fucking love Edward Teach, just scheming his little scheme to get Stede to take him in his arms and embrace him.

Giggling like a schoolgirl as he gets impaled with a sword because 'Omg Steeeede! Your arms are around me how did that happen teehee!'

He was one step away from twirling his hair and asking Stede to prom.

That giddy little bitch how I adore him.

#this post was brought to you by exhaustion and the letter F #i will become more unhinged by the day ubtil we have a release date mark my words #this is the form my protest takes #shhhh let it happen #ofmd #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #edward teach

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uwmspeccoll · 1 year

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Typography Tuesday

Sometimes, things in our collection still surprise me, even after 29 years. From our fairly sizable manuscript facsimile collection, I was surprised I had never encountered this little (5 X 7 in.) reproduction of a 16th-cnetury calligraphic manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, the first facsimile produced from the collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, printed in Lausanne, Switzerland by Imprimeries Reunies and published by Christopher Hudson in 1992.

As the relatively new invention of printing came to dominate the production of books by the 1500s, the calligraphic inventiveness of scribes became prized for their aesthetic qualities rather than their production value.

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 the [Flemish painter] 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. -- Getty Museum Collection webpage.

Although the two never met, the manuscript has an uncanny quality of collaboration about it.

Today we only show 11 pages from the facsimile, but we hope to present more from this highly-inventive manuscript of calligraphic virtuosity in the future.

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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #Typography Tuesday #Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta #Georg Bocskay #Joris Hoefnagel #calligraphy #letter forms #letters #J. Paul Getty Museum #Imprimeries Reunies #Christopher Hudson #illuminated manuscripts #facsimiles #manuscript facsimiles #Ferdinand I #Rudolph II

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the-magpie-archives · 2 years

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How are you even supposed to fill out a return to work form after all that?

#If it was me I think it just write 'FUCK YOU' across the form in big letters but I like to think that Jon's a little classier #Also the dates are estimations cos it's really hard to figure out when things happened lmao #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan simms #the magnus institute #elias bouchard #tma memes #tma crack #Tma posting #jonathan sims

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un-pearable · 1 year

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in which zane did not know before he died

remembered this very old au concept i’ve had since i was tiny watching ninjago for the first time… it completely unravels everything i enjoy about zane in the early seasons and i refuse to think of the necessary rewrites atm but i needed to make at least this one scene exist. can an au be naught but a single panel that makes me Sad?

#ninjago #zane ninjago #cole ninjago #tournament of elements #art✨#loadbearing nindroid #notorious s4 enjoyer makes sad s4 content for first time. this has lingered in the back of my mind for a literal decade probably #lettering makes me too powerful bc now i can get away with all the repetition and exaggerated punctuation that gets clunky in fic form #now it’s Pacing™️ . also why do so many webcomics ditch text bubbles they’re SO fun and emotive #i think i’m gonna play with this quick comic style a little more. all my full comic ideas are more detailed and actually colored but for now #this is fun :] and good for getting the images out of my head and into the world #also why do i keep drawing people from behind it is SO unhelpful #ninjago au #no potential au

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dduane · 5 months

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From the US Library of Congress; the correct format for declining (or writing) a love letter, and much more. ...With a big T of the H to Joe Straczinsky over at Twitter.

#writing #forms #letters

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gilgamushroom · 7 months

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I really love how it's always

Sherlock making deductions about strangers: I could tell you went to this place/do this for a living because of this detail in your appearance which if you read my monograph can be traced to this and that and also making an assumption about your general demeanor/social class I can tell this is probably true

Sherlock making a deduction about Watson: I know what brand of cigar you smoke. You told me this on Friday. I know what it means when you move your head to this side. Your routine usually doesn't include this. You wear your clothes this way. You're the most important person in my life btw

#holmes knows watson so well he has unlocked the ultimate form of deduction: TELEPATHY #smh that watson is not impressed #letters from watson #sherlock holmes

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