General subject of the book:
The Book „perspectiva” written by Hansen Lenckers (1523-1585) was published in 1617. It’s written in an ancient German, which makes it extremely complicated to read and understand. I tried to read a paragraph but the letters are not written the same as we know them. It has also different font types to separate the titles, subtitles and the text. The title leads me to expect the books topic being about perspective drawing although I must admit I’m not completely sure about that, but the drawings and sketches support my thinking. On almost every page I found drawings and sketches from different perspectives.
The book is organized the follow:
The book has a yellow cover with a lot of black points on it. The book cover is made out of carton and seems to be fragile. The paper is very fragile as well and at certain pages the paper has holes. The book is divided in many different and small chapters. Every chapter has its own title. The book consists of only 43 pages and 27 illustrations. The illustrations are hand sketched and at some points difficult to understand what the sketch means.
Nearly half the book consists of this illustrations which clearly shows the emphasis of this book is laid on them.
The height of the book is 29 cm, the width is 19 cm and the breath is 0.8 cm.