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Title: Writing book.
Creator: Willes, John.
Contributor: Hodgkin, John Eliot.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1677-1679.
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: Writing book composed between 1677 and 1679 by John Willes, illustrating each letter of the alphabet with quotations from Scripture. Most pages include calligraphic illustrations, capitals and drawings in multiple colors, which were covered with a varnish or coating that has since turned brown and brittle. The last page of the volume contains some accounts related to tobacco from 1740.
Condition: Bound in plain vellum with missing back cover; soiled and torn.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Calligraphy (visual works)
Exercise books (Penmanship)
Extent: 45 leaves ;20.3 x 31 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1f02h
f MS.1950.039
Language: English
eng
Place: England
Provenance: Many pages signed "John Willes" and "John Willis" and dated 1677, 1678, and 1679; shelfmark "42972" written on cover and title page; from the collection of John Eliot Hodgkin (sold at Sotheby's in 1914).
Location: CLUW

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