Calligraphy. Visual works.
Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:
Book of riddles and anagrams calligraphically written and decorated in watercolours by Isabella Gordon, Auchlunies.
Calligraphic album and commonplace book of Andrew Kippen, Edinburgh, entitled "Cabinet of Music, Poetry and Drawing."
Calligraphic copy by Rita Isles, of a translation of the last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Calligraphic copy of the poems of Hector MacNeill, by "JFG" of Dunbar.
Calligraphic Edinburgh Burgess Ticket in favour of John Elphinstone, 11th Lord Elphinstone.
Calligraphic fretwork manuscript made by Thomas Hunter, Edinburgh, of the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed.
Calligraphic manuscript by Richard Rishworth of Thomas Campbell, "The Pleasures of Hope".
Calligraphic manuscript of James Cargill, titled "Translations and Paraphrases in verse".
Calligraphic manuscript of "Questions de Pasquille. Extraites d'un livre Latin qui a pour Titre Pasquillus Ecstaticus", a translation of ‘Quaestiones pasquilli disputandae in futuro Concilio per Pontificem indicto’ by Caelius Secundus Curio., 1657.
The manuscript, which contains the first 70 questions only, is dated 1657, but there does not appear to have been an edition of that date.
Calligraphic manuscript volume of poems written by James Cargill.
Calligraphic page, written in miniature by Matthew Buchinger (1674-1739), a German calligrapher who had neither hands nor feet.
The page contains the Lord`s Prayer, the Apostle`s Creed and the Commandments, within an ornamental border composed of parts of St John`s Gospel, chapter xviii.
Calligraphic transcript, 7 August 1782, by John McOmie of the copy made by James Scott, minister of East church, Perth, of the charter granted 14 April 1498 to the Carthusian monastery, Perth, by James Stewart, Earl of Buchan (created 1469), of his garden or orchard without the Spey (folio 4).
The main transcript is preceded by transcripts by McOmie of Scott`s account of the circumstances of the donation (folio 1) and Scott`s presentation note, 19 July 1782, to David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan (succeeded 1767) (folio ii).
Calligraphic works by George Thomson, Stuart Barrie, David Lang and Michael Ashley.
Calligraphically written scripture extracts of Thomas Philip Graham of Airth., 1858.
Catalogues relating to Chinese calligraphy and art, with two mounted fan prints.
"Cinquant [sic] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez a tresillustre seigneur le conte de Shrewsbury, pour ses estrennes l'an 1607", being a calligraphic copy of the verses by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, first published anonymously in ‘Les Cantigues du Seigneur de Maisonfleur’.
Contemporary calligraphic copy of the "Solemn League and Covenant" of 1643, made by John Govan.
Copy, 17th century, of a letter of James VI to Sir Walter Dundas, 1600, in a calligraphic frame dated 1755., 1600.
Correspondence, drafts, notes and other papers of Tom Gourdie, mostly concerning calligraphy and handwriting.
Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1582-late 19th century.
Correspondence, teaching materials and papers of Tom Gourdie, mostly concerning the teaching and promotion of handwriting.
Designs for book decorations, stage sets and garden buildings by William McLaren.
Includes a sketchbook, specimans of calligraphy and printed books designed or decorated by McLaren.
Elegiac verses and funeral sermons on Jean Smith, by her husband the Reverend John Bonar.
With decorative penwork.
Illuminated calligraphic manuscript by Nora Paterson presented to Robert Munro, Baron Alness in recognition of his work as President and Chairman of the Scottish Savings Committee from 1941-1945.
Includes a history of the War Savings Movement in Scotland. In a fine maroon morocco binding by Henderson and Bisset.