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This Dover edition, first published in 1984, is a translation of the second edition, 1949,
of the work Schatzkammer der Schreibkunst: Meisterwerke der Kalligraphie aus vier
Jahrhunderten auf zweihundert Tafeln, originally published by the Verlag Birkhäuser,
Basel. All the plates are included; the new English translation of the text, by Stanley
Appelbaum, is virtually complete, omitting only a few details of the list of sources, as
noted on page xi.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Schatzkammer der Schreibkunst. English.
Treasury of calligraphy.

Translation of: Schatzkammer der Schreibkunst. 2nd ed. Basel:
Birkhäuser, 1949.

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

1. Calligraphy. 2. Paleography. I. Tschichold, Jan, 1902-1974.
II. Title.

Z43.S3613 1984 745.64 84-10323

ISBN 0-486-24700-7

CONTENTS

Introduction

page vii

Senault, Paris, ca. 1670

Plate

117

Sources of the Plates

xi

Casanova, Madrid, 1650

118-

-121

Hochreutiner, St. Gallen, 1658

122,

123

Vicentino, Rome, 1522

Plate 1

Senault, Paris, ca. 1670

124,

125

Mercator, Antwerp, 1540

2, 3

Petré, Paris, ca. 1670

126,

127

Palatino, Rome, 1544

4-7

Snell, London, 1694 and 1714

128,

129

Tagliente, Venice, 1531

8

Polanco, Madrid, 1719

130-

-135

Yciar, Saragossa, 1550

9-13 (left)

Spreng, Basel, 1709

136,

137

Lucas, Madrid, 1580 and 1608

t3 (right)-i9

Zunner, Nuremberg, 1709

138,

139

Vespasiano, Venice, 1564

20-23

C. Brunner, Basel, 1729

140-

-14З

Neudörffer, Nuremberg, 1538

24-ЗЗ

Bland, n.p., 1739

144-

-149

Wyss, Zurich, 1549

34-39

Bickham, London, 1743

150-

■157

Stymmer, Zurich, 1549

40, 41

Menzzer, Darmstadt, 1775

158,

159

Neff, Cologne, 1549

42-53

Braun, Mulhouse, 1774

160-

-163

Fugger, Nuremberg, 1553

54. 55

J.J. Brunner, Berne, 1766

164,

165

Wyss, Zurich, 1562

56, 57

Paillasson, Paris, 1760

166-

-17З

Cresci, Venice, 1569

58-64

Roschi, Berne, 1789

174,

175

Beauchesne and Baildon, London (?),

1571 65-67

Vorschriften, Winterthur, 1805

176-

-181

Leupolt, Markörlbach, 1596

68-73

Stephani, Erlangen, 1815

182,

183

Morellus, Besançon, 1606

74-79

Heinrigs, Krefeld, 1813

184,

185

van den Velde, Rotterdam, 1605

80-95

Stirling, Barcelona, 1830

186-

193

Rütlinger, Zurich, 1615

96-99

Heinrigs, Cologne, 1831

194,

195

Periccioli, Siena, 1619

100-103

Midolle, Strasbourg, 1834-35

196-

-198

Desmoulins, Lyons, 1625

104-111

Midolle, St. Gallen, 1840

199

Barbedor, Paris, ca. 1647

IÏ2-II6

Petré, Paris, ca. 1670

200