Calligraphy and palaeography; essays presented to Alfred Fairbank on his 70th birthday /
edited by A.S. Osley.
- New York: October House , 1966.
- xxiii, 286 pages illustrations, facsimiles, portrait 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
A scholar penman / J.A. Cole -- Alfred Fairbank's opus / Ruari McLean -- The Book of Remembrance, St. Clement Danes / Theodore McEvoy -- Three Latin inscriptions of 52 B.C. / A.E. Gordon and Joyce S. Gordon -- A fragment of a tenth-century English gospel lectionary / Francis Wormald -- More humanistic manuscripts / B.L. Ullman -- Messer Piero Strozzi, a Florentine priest and scribe / Albinia de La Mare -- Florilegium alphabeticum : alphabets in medieval manuscripts / Berthold L. Wolpe -- A manuscript from the library of Coluccio Salutati / R.W. Hunt -- Seymour de Ricci's 'Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta' / Joan Gibbs -- Variant issues of the first edition of Ludovico Arrighi Vicentino's Operina / Philip Hofer -- The origins of italic type / A.S. Osley -- The significance of the Colchester Clitia MS / Frank Allan Thomson -- Gerard Mercator, cartographer and writing master / Ben Engelhart and Chris Brand -- John Hodgkin: writing-master and calligrapher / Stanley Godman -- Benjamin Franklin Foster / Ray Nash -- According to Cocker / Sir Francis Meynell -- Non-arbitrary proportions of page and type area / Jan Tschichold -- Expressionist lettering / Nicolete Gray -- Notes on movement involving touch / Lloyd J. Reynolds -- Emmery Walker: A Victorian champion of chancery Italic / John Dreyfus -- Handwriting in schools / Alec Hay -- Italic revival : early days / Geoffrey Tillotson -- How the Italic hand came to New York / Paul Standard -- ' ... for there is so much to do!' / Bent Rohde. Notes on the history of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators / C.M. Lamb -- The Society for Italic Handwriting / Anna Hornby -- Italic and a septuagenarian / H.E.R. Alefounder -- Good handwriting / Sir Sydney Cockerell -- Bartholomew Dodington / Alfred Fairbank -- Chinese Italic / Margaret Hornton -- Bartolomeo San Vito / Alfred Fairbank -- The first Italic pen / H.R. Hughes -- Teaching handwriting / Prue Wallis-Meyers -- The Arrighi style of book-hand / Alfred Fairbank -- Humanist script in Florence in the early fifteenth century / R.W. Hunt -- What makes a good style? / Alfred Fairbank -- Envoi : the image maker / Oliver St. John Gogarty.
66015273
Penmanship.
Paleography.
Paleography.
Penmanship.
Z105.08 / 1966
652.1 / OSC
Includes bibliographical references.
A scholar penman / J.A. Cole -- Alfred Fairbank's opus / Ruari McLean -- The Book of Remembrance, St. Clement Danes / Theodore McEvoy -- Three Latin inscriptions of 52 B.C. / A.E. Gordon and Joyce S. Gordon -- A fragment of a tenth-century English gospel lectionary / Francis Wormald -- More humanistic manuscripts / B.L. Ullman -- Messer Piero Strozzi, a Florentine priest and scribe / Albinia de La Mare -- Florilegium alphabeticum : alphabets in medieval manuscripts / Berthold L. Wolpe -- A manuscript from the library of Coluccio Salutati / R.W. Hunt -- Seymour de Ricci's 'Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta' / Joan Gibbs -- Variant issues of the first edition of Ludovico Arrighi Vicentino's Operina / Philip Hofer -- The origins of italic type / A.S. Osley -- The significance of the Colchester Clitia MS / Frank Allan Thomson -- Gerard Mercator, cartographer and writing master / Ben Engelhart and Chris Brand -- John Hodgkin: writing-master and calligrapher / Stanley Godman -- Benjamin Franklin Foster / Ray Nash -- According to Cocker / Sir Francis Meynell -- Non-arbitrary proportions of page and type area / Jan Tschichold -- Expressionist lettering / Nicolete Gray -- Notes on movement involving touch / Lloyd J. Reynolds -- Emmery Walker: A Victorian champion of chancery Italic / John Dreyfus -- Handwriting in schools / Alec Hay -- Italic revival : early days / Geoffrey Tillotson -- How the Italic hand came to New York / Paul Standard -- ' ... for there is so much to do!' / Bent Rohde. Notes on the history of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators / C.M. Lamb -- The Society for Italic Handwriting / Anna Hornby -- Italic and a septuagenarian / H.E.R. Alefounder -- Good handwriting / Sir Sydney Cockerell -- Bartholomew Dodington / Alfred Fairbank -- Chinese Italic / Margaret Hornton -- Bartolomeo San Vito / Alfred Fairbank -- The first Italic pen / H.R. Hughes -- Teaching handwriting / Prue Wallis-Meyers -- The Arrighi style of book-hand / Alfred Fairbank -- Humanist script in Florence in the early fifteenth century / R.W. Hunt -- What makes a good style? / Alfred Fairbank -- Envoi : the image maker / Oliver St. John Gogarty.
66015273
Penmanship.
Paleography.
Paleography.
Penmanship.
Z105.08 / 1966
652.1 / OSC