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Decorative initial A in red and black – Fragment

Paper · 1 leaf · 1501 – 1600 CE · Possibly Germany. · 169 x 169 mm

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Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library, PL 2981, p.20

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Decorative initial A in red and black (Fragment), Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library, PL 2981, p.20 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-u1to)

Scholarly descriptions

Rosamond McKitterick and Joyce Irene Whalley, Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge. Volume 4, Music, Maps and Calligraphy. Woodbridge: Brewer, 1989.
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Participating Libraries

Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library

This document is part of the following projects:

The Digitisation of Samuel Pepys's 'Calligraphical' Fragments

Persons

Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703 (Previous Owner)

Wanley, Humphrey, 1672-1726 (Describer)

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Origin: Germany

Summary

The Pepys Library holds a number of manuscript and printed book fragments. In 1700 these fragments were deliberately collected and arranged by Samuel Pepys into his ‘Calligraphical’ albums, with added written commentary by Pepys’s associate Humfrey Wanley. The appearance of the fragments in the album is much like a scrapbook, and they are arranged in a chronological order to demonstrate how handwriting styles changed over time. An image of the whole page of the album on which each fragment appears is also displayed, to show the arrangement of the fragments in their wider context.