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Collection name. Inglis, Esther, Calligrapher

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

"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’.

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Identifier: MS.25240
Scope and Contents The manuscript is written in a variety of calligraphic hands and is decorated throughout with paintings of flowers, birds and insects. The pages containing Octonaires XVII, XXXI and XXXVIII are missing.The original title page and the dedication to the Earl of Shrewsbury have been cut out and pasted onto the verso of folio i and the inside of the front cover respectively.There are a number of later drawings and notes, including records of births of members...
Dates: [1586, or before]-19th century.

'Livre de I'ecclesiaste ensemble les Lamentations de leremie. De la main d'Esther Anglois françoise, a Lislebourg en Escosse, 1602', being a calligraphic copy of the books of Ecclesiastes and Jeremiah from a French Genevan version of the Bible.

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Identifier: MS.20498
Scope and Contents The manuscript is dedicated to Archibald, 7th Earl of Argyll, and contains his coat of arms (folio l verso). The text is written in a variety of scripts within etched ornamental borders. There are two decorative title-pages (folios 1 and 16), a portrait of the scribe (folio 5) and numerous small decorations and headpieces throughout. The manuscript is closely related to New York Public Library, Spencer Collection, French MS.8, which contains Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon written by...
Dates: [?1601.]

'Pseaumes de David. Escrits a Londres par Esther Inglis pour son dernier adieu, ianvier, 1.1615', a calligraphic copy of the Psalms from the Geneva version of 1588, with a dedication to James VI.

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Identifier: MS.8874
Scope and Contents

The title page has an illuminated border of flowers and insects; there is a miniature of David in prayer, and a self-portrait of the scribe (folio 4), and also decorative pen-drawings of foliage.

Dates: 1588.