Gründliche Anweisung zu Teutsch- und Lateinischer Schreib-Kunst
An 18th-century German-language calligraphy manual printed in Vienna in 1734 by Adam à S. Stephano, aimed at writing masters and students of Teutsch and Latin penmanship. Its pages show decorative initial letters: elaborate flourished capitals drawn as engraved copperplate plates, alongside faint pencil sketches of the same ornamental forms that reveal the drafting process. A designer could take from them the looping, interlaced structure of flourished capitals and the way a letter can be built from curling strokes and cross-hatched shading.
