Mira Botanica: Before Dutch still life painting developed, artists illuminated handwritten manuscripts to add emotional power to a written work. A celebrated practitioner of this style was Joris Hoefnagel. Reproduced here is a page he illuminated for the Mira calligraphiae monumenta, a mid-16th-century manuscript by Georg Bocskay.

The notebook has 176 unlined pages of 100gsm FSC certified paper in a 130 x 180mm (slightly smaller than A5) format with a ribbon marker and a pouch inside the soft cover. 

Paperblanks take great pride in the quality of their notebooks, they are all Smyth sewn to ensure that the binding remains true for years to come.  We tested their papers with our fountain pens before stocking them, and they perform well.

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