Text set / [Calligraphic copy book].

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Title: [Calligraphic copy book].
Alternative Title: Writeing book.
Creator: Thorne, John.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1678
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript.
Scope/Content: Calligraphic copy book dated 1678 by a John Thorne, containing alphabets, command-of-hand drawings, writing exercises and multicolor drawings and embellishments. The text block has been trimmed during binding and there is some damage to individual pages from acidic iron gall ink. Several exercises have been signed by John Thorne and the multicolor embellishments and initial letters on many of the pages are quite detailed and colorful.
Condition: Bound in half calf with marbled boards.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Calligraphy (visual works)
Striking (technique)
Penmanship specimen books
Extent: [2], 100, [2] leaves, bound ;20 x 32 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n10p5h
MS.1952.009
Language: English
eng
Subject: Penmanship--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: "Anno 1678" and "John Thorne" on page 10. "John Thorne" also signed at the end of passages on pages 79 and 84.
Location: CLUW

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