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 49 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 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.
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.
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, 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.
Illuminated calligraphic manuscript of Esther Inglis, forming a summary of St Matthew`s Gospel, "Argumenta singulorum capitum Evangelii Matthaei Apostoli, per tetrasticha manu Estherae Inglis exarata Londini XXVI Ianuari, 1607".
Item
Identifier: Acc.11821
Dates:
1607.
Incomplete collection (lacking original pages 1-2) of fair copies, with frequent calligraphic embellishments, of royal decreets and other formal documents relating to the administration of teinds (tithes) in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.21
Scope and Contents
The documents are copies of originals mostly from the period 1626 to 1643, but they include a commission, January 1678, granted by Charles II, and the copyist`s hand is characteristic of the late 17th century.
Dates:
1626-1643, 1678
Journal of expeditions to castles and other locations mostly on the coast of Caithness and in Shetland, illustrated with sketches and with calligraphic flourishes, by Mary Russell.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12858
Dates:
1852-1853.