Paul Franck

Paul Franck wrote a calligraphic text in Nürnberg in 1655 (published by Paul Fürst, ca. 1605-1666 and printed by Christoph Gerhard, 1624-1681), entitled Kunstrichtige Schreibart : allerhand Versalie[n] oder AnfangsBuchstabe[n] der teütschen, lateinischen und italianischen Schrifften aus unterschiedlichen Meistern der edlen Schreibkunst zusammen getragen.

This text, of which some pictures can be viewed on this page, consists largely of hyper-ornamental blackletter initial alphabets. Like the 2009 movie Brüno, it's over the top.
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Contact

Luc Devroye
School of Computer Science
McGill University
Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6
lucdevroye@gmail.com
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc