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Calligraphy (visual works)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Aurea dicta : illuminated manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0178
Abstract

This volume, entitled Aurea Dicta (Latin, “Golden Words”), is an illuminated manuscript containing a collection of hymns and poems with illustrations throughout. It was bound by Oldach Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1914.

Dates: 1914

English manuscript recipe book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0156
Abstract

Eighteenth-century English manuscript recipe book owned by Mary Baker, containing approximately 300 cookery and medical recipes.

Dates: approximately 1730

Martha L. Carothers student artists' books collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0868
Abstract

Martha L. Carothers is a book artist and professor of Art and Design at the University of Delaware specializing in graphic design and book arts. The Martha L. Carothers student artists’ books collection comprises over 500 artists’ books created by students of Martha Carothers’ ART 309 course at the University of Delaware from 1983 to 2016. The collection documents thirty-four years of student projects in the application of book-arts concepts and techniques.

Dates: 1983-2016

Eleanor Peale Jacobs commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0064
Abstract

This mid-nineteenth-century American commonplace book was created by Eleanor Peale Jacobs (1805-1877) of Philadelphia and New York, with contributions from various friends and members of the artistic Peale family, who copied extracts of poetry and prose throughout. The volume also contains calligraphic writing and several ink and watercolor illustrations.

Dates: approximately 1820 to 1860

Rachel Leah Lindeman album

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0008
Abstract

The Rachel Leah Lindeman album is a presentation album which was given to Lindeman on March 18, 1862, in honor of her birthday. The album, which contains thirty-four pages of photographs, poems, artwork (pencil sketches, ink drawings, cartoons, illuminations, watercolors, etc.), elaborate calligraphy, and pressed flowers dating from 1862 to 1877, is a fine example of a Victorian presentation album with colonial Indian influences.

Dates: 1862-1877

Orationes Que Cantari Solent in Laudibus

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0181
Abstract

This manuscript is a calligraphic devotional book containing Latin prayers and hymns corresponding to the Roman Catholic liturgical year. It was created by an unknown person in 1827, perhaps a Cistercian nun at the Doornzele Abbey near Ghent, Belgium.

Dates: 1827

John A. Parke penmanship exercise book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0186
Abstract

John A. (John Andrew) Parke, likely a student in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, kept this penmanship exercise book between 1845 and 1846. Parke used the book to practice his handwriting in German Text.

Dates: 1845-1846

Three mornings : poem

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0751
Abstract

Holograph calligraphy manuscript of Philip Whalen's Three Mornings, which was published by Don Allen's Four Seasons Foundation. Inscribed by Whalen to Allen and with small printer's instructions in one corner.

Dates: 1964

Zephyrus Image records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0880
Abstract Zephyrus Image, founded by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers, was a small Northern California press operating from approximately 1969-1983, notable for its socially- and politically-subversive books and ephemera and its fine works on paper. The Zephyrus Image records document the activities of the California press and its proprietors and the planning and development of roughly 300 printed works of poetry and political and satirical books and ephemera. Zephyrus Image projects were created for...
Dates: 1960-2000; Majority of material found within circa 1969-1983