Main entry:

Dawson, Giles E. (Giles Edwin), 1903-

Title & Author:

Elizabethan handwriting, 1500-1650 : a manual / Giles E. Dawson, Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [1966]

Description:

ix, 130 pages : 54 facsimiles ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-130).
Introduction. The Survival of Manuscripts -- The Handwriting of the Tudor and Stuart Age -- Historical Development -- The Mechanics of Writing ; Some Letters of the Secretary ; Hand ; Spelling ; Punctuation ; Abbreviation and Contraction -- Editorial Principles -- Methods of Study.
Plates and Transcripts. Robert Mannyng of Brunne, an extract from Handlyng Synne [ca. 1400] -- An extract from Mind, Will, and Understanding, a morality play [ca. 1460] -- J. de Beau Chesne and J. Baildon, a woodcut engraving from A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands [1571] -- J. de Beau Chesne and J. Baildon, A New Booke Containing All Sorts of Hands [1611] -- A deed conveying land, 1501 -- Henry VIII, warrant, 1525 -- Henry Fitzalan, earl of Arundel, an order to the Office of Tents and Revels, 1549 -- Receipt for armor [1554] -- Sir William Cavendish, letter to Sir Humphrey Bradborne and Thomas Babington [ca. 1555] -- Prologue to July and Julian (anonymous school play) [ca. 1560] -- Sir George Pierrepoint, autograph letter to Elizabeth, Lady St. Loe, 1561 -- James Crompe, letter to Elizabeth, Lady St. Loe [ca. 1565] -- Ralph Adderley, letter to Sir Nicholas Bagnal, 1567 -- Privy Council, letter probably to the lieutenant of Dover Castle, 1572 -- Walter Devereux, earl of Essex, letter to George Talbot, earl of Shrews-bury, 1573 -- Indenture of release, 1576 -- A Post-mortem inventory of the goods of John Edolf, 1576 Richard Broughton, autograph letter to Richard Bagot [1577] -- John Kay, a lesson for landbyers [ca. 1580] -- William Saunders, autograph letter to Richard Bagot [1585] -- Dinner for the officers of the Exchequer, 1587 -- Anne Broughton, letter to her father, Richard Bagot [1587] -- Miles Corbett, autograph letter to John Owles [ca. 1590] -- Sir Nicholas Bacon, address to the serjeants-at-law delivered in 1559 [ca. 1590] -- Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, letter to Sir Edward Littleton and others, 1593 -- Richard Broughton, autograph letter to Walter Bagot, 1597 -- William Cecil, Lord Burghley, letter to Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York, 1597 -- Examination of Hugh Ford, 1598 -- The use of the law [ca. 1600] -- Sir Charles Cavendish, letter to his mother, Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury [ca. 1600] -- Privy Council, letter to Nathaniel Bacon, 1600 -- Sir Robert Cecil, autograph letter to Sir John Peyton [1603?] -- Henry Cavendish, autograph letter to his mother, the Countess Dowager of Shrewsbury, 1605 -- Nathaniel Bacon, examination of Stephen Nicholls [1607] -- Privy Council, letter to Sir Arthur Chichester, 1607 -- An inventory of the furnishings of Jane Lady Berkeley's London house [1614] -- Lettice Kynnersley, autograph letter to her brother, Walter Bagot [ca. 1615] -- Sir Francis Drake, letter to John Foxe [copied ca. 1615] -- William Wilson, autograph letter to Edward Alleyn [ca. 1617] -- William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, letter to Sir Lionel Tollemache, Bart., 1619 -- William Bagot, autograph letter to Walter Bagot, his father, 1622 -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, II.iv.328-349 [copied ca. 1622] 104 -- The tollbook of Market Bosworth Fair, 1623 -- Philip Holland (probable writer), the coronation of King James [ca. 1625] -- A page from a poetical commonplace book [ca. 163o] -- Ben Jonson, satirical verses on Inigo Jones [ca. 1630] -- Richard Napier, autograph letter to an unknown lady [1632] -- Sir Edward Hyde, autograph letter to Sir Marmaduke Langdale [1657] -- W[illiam] L[ane], Petition [1647] -- de Beau Chesne and J. Baildon, A New Booke Containing all Sorts of Hands [1611] -- Martin Billingsley, The Pens Excellencie [1618] -- Court roll of the manor court of Hurstmonceux, 1530 -- Philip Hoby, bond or note of hand, 1541 -- Nicholas Kynnersley, autograph letter to Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, 1588 -- Books Recommended for Reading and Reference.

Summary:

"The practice of handwriting as an art has almost disappeared nowadays, but for the educated man of Queen Elizabeth's time, handwriting was important both for preserving records and for general com-munication. In this extraordinary and unique manual, two distinguished experts in the field of Elizabethan documents have brought together more than fifty representative examples of the "secretary hand" - the hand of literature, corre-spondence, and business. Each full-page reproduction of a handwriting sample is faced with a transcription. The plates are arranged in a chronological order, which enables the reader to follow the styles as they progress through the 150 years covered by the book. The documents reveal the busy and many-sided life of the Elizabethan man and woman, and the age comes alive once again through its documents. The authors have provided generous introductory materials that place the handwriting in the perspective of the age. Dr. Giles Dawson is Curator of Books and Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, which is one of the richest repositories of Elizabethan materials in the world; he has published widely in the fields of bibliography, paleography, liter-ature, and history. Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton is Manuscript Cataloguer at the Folger." -- jacket flap

Subject:

Penmanship History.
Écriture Étude et enseignement Histoire.
Penmanship
Schrift
Paleography, English Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language Writing Handbooks, manuals, etc.
England

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Yeandle, Laetitia, 1930-2024, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 75304
Call No.: ID:92-B2518
Status: Available