Lily & Tomato (Mira Botanica) Mini Lined Softcover Flexi Journal

Before Dutch still life painting developed, artists illuminated handwritten manuscripts with flora and fauna to add emotional power to a written work. One of the most celebrated practitioners of this style was Joris Hoefnagel. In the 1590s the Emperor Rudolf II commissioned Hoefnagel to add his illuminations to the Mira calligraphiae monumenta, a mid-16th-century manuscript by Georg Bocskay, a page from which is reproduced here.

Flexible cover and spine

140 x 95 mm

208 pages sustainably sourced paper

80 GSM

Smyth-sewn binding

Pages lie flat

Memento pouch

Ribbon bookmark

Elastic closure