Mitteilungen aus dem Germanischen Nationalmuseum
This is a yearbook of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg, published in 1884 and issued for scholars and museum readers interested in German art. Its pictures are plates of ornamental border and strapwork designs, many taken from sixteenth-century pattern books such as Hans Schwarzenberger's Modelbuch, printed as dense black-and-white line work. A designer might draw on their interlaced knotwork, scrolling acanthus, and grotesque animal friezes for borders and panels.
