The Historical Sourcebook for Scribes
by Michelle P. Brown
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Fourteen historical manuscripts, supported by other manuscript examples, are used to explore fifteen selected writing styles. Dr Michelle P. Brown analyses the production of the manuscripts, setting them in their historical context and relating them to the people who produced them. Patricia Lovett uses the manuscripts to analyse the letter-forms in detail, and then gives clear guidance on how to write the letters. Each section includes a calligraphic interpretation of the historic show more letter-form. This book is the first to put the needs of the historian and the scribe at the forefront. Large-scale examples of the manuscripts are included for letter analysis, with, in most instances, a full page colour reproduction of a page from the same manuscript alongside. Other selected manuscripts with clear letter-forms show the development of that alphabet style throughout the periods under consideration. A whole page is devoted to exemplar letters of each alphabet style, with clear guidelines on how the letters are formed, including punctuation marks, an ampersand (or et ligature) and numerals. Each section includes a specially created piece of modern calligraphy, showing how the hand can be used today. show lessTags
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Michelle P. Brown FSA is Professor Emerita of Medieval Manuscript. Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London and was formerly the Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library. Ildar Garipzanov is Professor of Early Medieval History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of show more Oslo. Beniamin C. Tilghman is Assistant Professor of Art History at Washington College and a member of the Material Collective. show less
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Art & Design, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 745.61 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Decorations & Handicrafts / Calligraphy Calligraphy, illumination, heraldic design Calligraphy instruction
- LCC
- Z43 .B869 — Bibliography, Library Science and Information Resources Books (General). Writing. Paleography Writing Calligraphy. Penmanship
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