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Artful Words Calligraphy in Illuminated Manuscripts

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Butterfly, Marine Mollusk, and Pear, from Model Book of Calligraphy (text in Latin), Vienna, about 1591-96; artist, Joris Hoefnagel and scribe, Georg Bocskay. The J. Paul Getty Museum