The Alphabet Book of Amos Lewis
An Elizabethan Calligraphic Manuscript Revealed
The Alphabet Book of Amos Lewis
An Elizabethan Calligraphic Manuscript Revealed
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The manuscript, here shown in facsimile with commentary, was made by a clergyman in a bid for the patronage of an Elizabethan magnate. The earliest known English attempt at an original writing book, it combines scripts and ornament to emulate printed Continental writing books, with quoted texts to individual letters stressing the value of learning.
The editor, Simon Swynfen Jervis FSA, is an art historian. After twenty-three years in the furniture department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, he became Director and Marlay Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and later Historic Buildings Secretary of the National Trust. He has served as a trustee of the Royal Collection, as chairman of the Leche Trust, the Walpole Society and the trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum, and as president of the Society of Antiquaries of London. A director of the Burlington Magazine until 2024, he is now president of the Furniture History Society. Since the 1960s he has written on design and ornament, including: Printed Furniture Designs before 1650 (1974); High Victorian Design (1983); the Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers (1984); British and Irish Inventories (2010); and Roman Splendour, English Arcadia (2015, with Dudley Dodd). His book Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture: Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's 'Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations' (2019) was shortlisted for the Apollo Book of the Year Award. Two recent articles (Burlington Magazine, 2018 and 2021, the latter with Stephen Lloyd) have identified perspective paintings constituting unique visions of aristocratic life on the brink of the Civil War as commissioned in 1640 by William Paston of Oxnead Hall, Norfolk.
The editor, Simon Swynfen Jervis FSA, is an art historian. After twenty-three years in the furniture department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, he became Director and Marlay Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and later Historic Buildings Secretary of the National Trust. He has served as a trustee of the Royal Collection, as chairman of the Leche Trust, the Walpole Society and the trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum, and as president of the Society of Antiquaries of London. A director of the Burlington Magazine until 2024, he is now president of the Furniture History Society. Since the 1960s he has written on design and ornament, including: Printed Furniture Designs before 1650 (1974); High Victorian Design (1983); the Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers (1984); British and Irish Inventories (2010); and Roman Splendour, English Arcadia (2015, with Dudley Dodd). His book Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture: Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's 'Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations' (2019) was shortlisted for the Apollo Book of the Year Award. Two recent articles (Burlington Magazine, 2018 and 2021, the latter with Stephen Lloyd) have identified perspective paintings constituting unique visions of aristocratic life on the brink of the Civil War as commissioned in 1640 by William Paston of Oxnead Hall, Norfolk.