Illustrations
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:
Specimens of calligraphic styles of writing, 1570-1624 (approximate)
Item
Identifier: La.III.522
Scope and Contents
MS La.III.522 is a composite manuscript of late-sixteenth and/or early-seventeenth century pieces of calligraphy, assembled by a later collector. The bulk of the manuscript is a combination of two different calligraphic alphabets with sample-texts, which follow the aspect and structure of early-modern writing-books. One of these decorative alphabets is composed of gothic, knotwork intials, while the other is structured by Roman capital letters against backgrounds of delicate, swirling vines....
Dates:
1570-1624 (approximate)
Volume entitled "James Ferguson's Common Place Book"
Fonds — Volume Dk.7.33
Identifier: Coll-2222
Scope and Contents
Fergusson, James. Volume entitled "James Ferguson's Common Place Book", 1775. Some inscriptions, or small portions of text in Hebrew, Greek, Latin. Contains highly detailed, illustrations, graphs, tables, diagrams, some with moving-parts, or folding-out. Interleaved with printed material.
Dates:
c 1775