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Title: Manuscript copy book.
Creator: Pell, Daniel.
Goodaire family.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1644-1723
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 copy book written in multiple hands containing a variety of devotional and scriptural texts, alphabets in secretary, italic and chancery scripts, sermon notes, family records of the Goodaire family, sample petitions and other legal documents, notes on mathematics and numeration and extracts from printed works on stenography and handwriting. Many pages are filled with elaborate calligraphic illustration and embellishment.
Condition: Bound in contemporary plain calf with blind triple-ruled border on covers; modern rebacking and paper repairs.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Calligraphy (visual works)
Exercise books (Penmanship)
Notebooks
Sermons
Extent: 133 leaves, bound ;37 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1mp53
f MS.1957.005
Language: English
eng
Subject: Shorthand--Early works to 1800.
Place: England--West Yorkshire--Sandal Magna
Provenance: Signature of Daniel Pell on f. 2v and f. 133r, initials D.P. and date 1645 on f. 36r; ownership inscription of John Goodaire (or Goodare) on f. 1r; "William Hargraue" signature on f. 3r; James Walker signature on f. 24r.
Location: CLUW

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