Hans Rudolf Gujer calligraphy notebook ViU-2024-0092 (Addition 53)

Containers:
Box 11, Folder 8
Creator:
Musinsky Rare Books
Extent:
0.04 Cubic Feet 1 volume.
Scope and content:

Addition 53 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building contains one calligraphy manuscript of Hans Rudolf Gujer from Wermatswil, Switzerland. The book contains thirty-seven leaves in landscape format, in various colored inks and watercolor, with some use of gouache.

It also includes seven large original drawings; one is in pen-and-ink, and six are ink and watercolor; three pages of alphabets; most other pages have three compartments including ornately decorated capital initials, floral, figurative, and abstract ornamental borders and infills throughout; one page with music, and one with micrograph. The last leaf contains a full-page colophon of calligrapher: "Von Mir geschriben, Hans Rudolf guier, Zu Wermmet-schweil, 1750," with marginal calligraphic addition noting his age at the time of writing, "mein alter war 20 jahr."

The German texts of the album are religious: biblical quotations, prayers, and other devotional texts. Gujer was a relative of Jacob Gujer, a celebrated "philosopher farmer."

Language:
German

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
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Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
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POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
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Parent restrictions:
The collection is open for research use.
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