Gothisches ABC-Buch
Gothisches ABC-Buch is an 1840 alphabet primer of Gothic architecture compiled by Friedrich Hoffstadt, held by Heidelberg University Library and aimed at readers learning the forms of medieval church building. The pictures are plain black-and-white architectural drawings: ground plans with dotted vaults and cross-hatched piers, a sectioned elevation of a domed basilica, and a decorated title page framed by tracery and a painted roundel of two saints. A designer could take the crisp line-drawn plans and the ornate Gothic tracery border as clear models for period diagrams and frames.
