{"id":7392,"date":"2010-07-06T02:49:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T01:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7392"},"modified":"2010-07-06T02:49:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T01:49:24","slug":"johann-theodor-de-brys-neiw-kunstliches-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/07\/06\/johann-theodor-de-brys-neiw-kunstliches-alphabet\/","title":{"rendered":"Johann Theodor de Bry’s Neiw Kunstliches Alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A page from Johann Theodor de Bry’s Neiw Kunstliches Alphabet<\/em> (1595) which can be found in a free PDF version here<\/a>, the scans being taken from a Victorian reprint. The late, lamented Giornale Nuovo featured some of these curious letter designs<\/a> in 2005. Each capital is embellished with various symbolic figures\u2014Moses appears perched on the letter M, for example\u2014whilst also being draped with fruit, lobsters and even insects. I used a smaller redrawing of De Bry’s letter S for one of the page designs<\/a> in Jeff VanderMeer’s City of Saints and Madmen<\/em> in 2002. Probably not the use that De Bry intended but then I expect he’d be surprised that his work was still being used at all after four hundred years. Via BibliOdyssey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The Book of Ornamental Alphabets<\/a>
\n\u2022 Paul Franck\u2019s calligraphy<\/a>
\n\u2022 Gramato-graphices<\/a>
\n\u2022 John Bickham\u2019s Fables and other short poems<\/a>
\n\u2022 Letters and Lettering<\/a>
\n\u2022 Studies in Pen Art<\/a>
\n\u2022 Flourishes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A page from Johann Theodor de Bry’s Neiw Kunstliches Alphabet (1595) which can be found in a free PDF version here, the scans being taken from a Victorian reprint. The late, lamented Giornale Nuovo featured some of these curious letter designs in 2005. Each capital is embellished with various symbolic figures\u2014Moses appears perched on the … Continue reading “Johann Theodor de Bry’s Neiw Kunstliches Alphabet”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,42,4,21,10,23],"tags":[1042,266,2955,141,142,1489,1418],"class_list":["post-7392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-white","category-books","category-design","category-fantasy","category-typography","category-work","tag-bibliodyssey","tag-calligraphy","tag-giornale-nuovo","tag-insects","tag-jeff-vandermeer","tag-johann-theodor-de-bry","tag-paul-franck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Ve","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}