Calligraphy. Visual works.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Works composed primarily of beautiful, elegant letters or flourishes that are typically created by hand with a pen, either in unjoined characters or in cursive writing. May also refer to similar works created by computer or another means.
Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:
Book of riddles and anagrams calligraphically written and decorated in watercolours by Isabella Gordon, Auchlunies.
Item
Identifier: MS.24639
Dates:
1816.
Calligraphic album and commonplace book of Andrew Kippen, Edinburgh, entitled "Cabinet of Music, Poetry and Drawing."
File
Identifier: Acc.12170
Dates:
1850.
Calligraphic copy by Rita Isles, of a translation of the last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5993
Dates:
circa 1973.
Calligraphic copy of the poems of Hector MacNeill, by "JFG" of Dunbar.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12145
Dates:
1816.
Calligraphic Edinburgh Burgess Ticket in favour of John Elphinstone, 11th Lord Elphinstone.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13006
Dates:
1786.
Calligraphic fretwork manuscript made by Thomas Hunter, Edinburgh, of the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12997
Dates:
1780.
Calligraphic manuscript by Richard Rishworth of Thomas Campbell, "The Pleasures of Hope".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10228
Dates:
1817.
Calligraphic manuscript of James Cargill, titled "Translations and Paraphrases in verse".
Item
Identifier: Acc.13498
Dates:
c. 1880.
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.
Item
Identifier: MS.10230
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1657.
Calligraphic manuscript volume of poems written by James Cargill.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13029
Dates:
circa 1830.
Calligraphic page, written in miniature by Matthew Buchinger (1674-1739), a German calligrapher who had neither hands nor feet.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.4
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1722.
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).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.7
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1498.
Calligraphic works by George Thomson, Stuart Barrie, David Lang and Michael Ashley.
File
Identifier: Acc.11386
Dates:
1951-1995 and undated.
Calligraphically written scripture extracts of Thomas Philip Graham of Airth., 1858.
File
Identifier: MS.10969
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates:
1858.
Catalogues relating to Chinese calligraphy and art, with two mounted fan prints.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14052
Dates:
Circa 1900-1910.
"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’.
Item
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.
Contemporary calligraphic copy of the "Solemn League and Covenant" of 1643, made by John Govan.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9073
Dates:
circa 1643.
Copy, 17th century, of a letter of James VI to Sir Walter Dundas, 1600, in a calligraphic frame dated 1755., 1600.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.1.18
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates:
1600.
Correspondence, drafts, notes and other papers of Tom Gourdie, mostly concerning calligraphy and handwriting.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9136/1-68
Dates:
1959-1983, undated.
Correspondence of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1582-late 19th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates:
1582-late 19th century.
Correspondence, teaching materials and papers of Tom Gourdie, mostly concerning the teaching and promotion of handwriting.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12817/1-94
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1783, [1930]-2004, undated.
Designs for book decorations, stage sets and garden buildings by William McLaren.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11560
Scope and Contents
Includes a sketchbook, specimans of calligraphy and printed books designed or decorated by McLaren.
Dates:
1943-1968.
Elegiac verses and funeral sermons on Jean Smith, by her husband the Reverend John Bonar.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7614
Scope and Contents
With decorative penwork.
Dates:
1737.
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.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11854
Scope and Contents
Includes a history of the War Savings Movement in Scotland. In a fine maroon morocco binding by Henderson and Bisset.
Dates:
1946.