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Week 7 of 7/52. I am thrilled beyond words. I found this old Olympia CURSIVE typewriter. They are so hard to find and the typeface is amazing. I never thought I'd ever find one but I did and it was only $8! It also once belonged to CBS News! It's filthy and needs a lot of cleaning but as far as I can tell it works like a champ. I am so excited!
Close-Up view of the cursive origami letters to get a better idea of the different folding techniques used with each letter.
Here she is, my much-sought-after cursive/ script typewriter. Sure, the stickers are campy, but the yellow plastic needed some decoration so I went all out...
Author: Sea todo a mayor honra, y gloria de Dios Ntr̃o Señor alivio de los ministros, y utilidad de las almas.
Title: Quaderno de Ydioma Zapoteco dell valle, que contiene algunas reglas las mas comunes del Arte, un vocabulario algo copioso, un confessionario, y otras cosas que veera el Christiano lecton [manuscript] : se ha escrito procurando todo lo possible imitar la pronunciacion natural de los Yndios: sacado lo mas de los autores antiguos que escrivieron de este Ydioma
Imprint: 1793.
Physical Description:
Page: P. 93-94.
Call Number: PM4548 .Q32 1793 Rare Book
Rights Info: Public domain. No known copyright restrictions.
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I use print letters more often than cursive. It has the advantage of people being able to read it.
For the Handwriting Meme group.
Use your finger to write on your partner's back. Can your partner guess what letter you are writing? This is a fun way to practice cursive.
ictorial book of arms of the Order of the Garter ('William Bruges's Garter Book')
OriginEngland, S. E. (probably London)
Datec. 1430- c. 1440 (before 1450)
LanguageLatin
ScriptGothic and Gothic cursive inscriptions
Decoration27 full page miniatures in pen and watercolours, 26 with a standing knight holding a panel with heraldic shields of successors in their Garter stalls at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order).
Dimensions in mm385 x 285
Official foliationff. 20 ( + numerous unfoliated paper leaves)
FormPaper codex (miniatures mounted on modern paper)
BindingPost-1600. Brown diced leather with gold tooling, including flowers.
ProvenanceMade for William Bruges, (b. c.1375, d. c. 1450), herald: inscriptions (ff. 6, 7); see also Ailes 2004) with reference to and image of this manuscript.
John Writhe (d. 1504), herald (see Gothic 2003).
? Sir Thomas Wriothesley [formerly Writhe] (d. 1534), herald (see Gothic 2003).
Elias Ashmole (b. 1617, d. 1692), astrologer and antiquary, in 1665 (see Gothic 2003; O'Conor 1819).
John Anstis (b. 1669, d. 1744), herald and antiquary (see Gothic 2003).
William Bayntun, F.S A. (d. 1785): inscription (f. 1): bought by Meyrick for 10 guineas.
John Meyrick (d. 1805): his sale, 7 February, lot 958, bought by Towneley for £23.2: inscription (f. 1).
John Towneley (d. 1816): his bookplate (inside upper cover): bought by the Duke of Buckingham for £25 17s 6d at Towneley's sale in May 1816 according to the inscription cited below (f. 1).
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham: inscribed with the press-mark 'Press IX No. 38' (inside upper cover) corresponding to his catalogue; see O’Conor 1819; inscribed 'This book was bought at Mr. Townley's sale for £28: 17.6 Chandos Buckingham' (f. 1).
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883.
NotesThis is the first armorial for the Order of the Garter. The leaves were rearranged and are now mounted on paper leaves.
ff. 1-3v are later notes; f. 4 is a page from a printed book.
Watermark of a barbed anchor with a small cross (ff. 5 (portion) 20), is similar to C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 389 (Estopey 1418; Troyes 1426).