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Book Review
The Alphabet Book of Amos Lewis: An Elizabethan Calligraphic Manuscript Revealed
06/2025 | 1467 | 167
Pages: 626–627
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Reviewer:
Horsfall Turner, Olivia (Horsfall Turner, Olivia)
Subjects
subjects:
Calligraphy / Pattern books / Alphabets
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Alphabet Book of Amos Lewis: An Elizabethan Calligraphic Manuscript Revealed Edited by Simon Swynfen Jervis. 96 pp. incl. 51 col. ills. (John Adamson, Cambridge, 2024), £40. ISBN 978–1–898565–20–8. | :
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Attributed works:
6. ‘S’, fol.22 of Alphabet Book, by Amos Lewis. c.1585. Ink on paper, 9.6 by 14.2 cm. (Private collection).
Publication Received
ABC. By Damien Hirst.
09/2014 | 1338 | 156
Pages: 613
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Reviewer:
Vernon, Jonathan (Vernon, Jonathan ; V., J.)
Subjects
artists:
Hirst, Damien
subjects:
Alphabets / Children
Book Review
The Myth of Egypt and Its Hieroglyphs in European Tradition
04/1963 | 721 | 105
Pages: 172
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Reviewer:
Aldred, Cyril (Aldred, Cyril)
Subjects
places:
Egypt
subjects:
Egyptian / Alphabets / Hieroglyphics / Critical Reception
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Myth of Egypt and Its Hieroglyphs in European Tradition | author: Iversen, Erik
Book Review
The Hieroglyphics of Horapollon
04/1952 | 589 | 94
Pages: 122-123
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Reviewer:
Tervarent, Guy de (Tervarent, Guy de; Tervarent, M. de)
Subjects
places:
Egypt
sources:
Horapollo
subjects:
Hieroglyphics / Alphabets / Egyptian
subjects:
Renaissance / Influence / Sources
works:
Hieroglyphica
Reviewed Items
works:
The Hieroglyphics of Horapollon | author: Boas, George
Book Review
A Book of Scripts
03/1951 | 576 | 93
Pages: 100
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Reviewer:
Blunt, Wilfrid (Blunt, Wilfrid)
Subjects
subjects:
Calligraphy / Alphabets / Typography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A Book of Scripts | author: Fairbank, Alfred
Book Review
Lettering for Students and Craftsmen
07/1931 | 340 | 59
Pages: 50
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Reviewer:
Noppen, J. G. (Noppen, J. G.; Noppen, John George; N., J. G.)
Subjects
subjects:
Typography / Alphabets
subjects:
Calligraphy
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Lettering for Students and Craftsmen | author: Hewitt, Graily
Short Notice
Transliteration of Chinese
07/1927 | 292 | 51
Pages: 44-45
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Author:
Yetts, W. Perceval (Yetts, W. Perceval; Yetts, Walter Perceval; Yetts, W. Percival; Y., W. P.; Yetts, Perceval; Y., P.; Yetts, W. P.)
Subjects
subjects:
Chinese / Alphabets
Article
The Inscriptions of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses and the Bridekirk Font
04/1914 | 133 | 25
Pages: 24-27+29
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Author:
Dickins, Bruce (Dickins, Bruce)
Author:
Forbes, M. D. (Forbes, M. D.)
Subjects
buildings:
Bewcastle Cross, Cumbria, Great Britain
buildings:
Ruthwell Cross, Cumbria, Great Britain
dates:
0600-0699 / 0700-0799
places:
England / Northumberland / Cumbria
subjects:
Sculpture / Archaeology / Anglo-Saxon / Inscriptions / Dating / Sources
subjects:
Runes / Alphabets
subjects:
Crosses / Anglo-Saxon / Celtic
subjects:
Historic monuments
works:
Ruthwell Cross, Cumbria, Great Britain
works:
Bewcastle Cross, Cumbria, Great Britain
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
The Bridekirk Font. (A) Detail, upper Division of Side to Left of the Inscription. (B) Detail, lower Division of Side Opposite the Inscription. (C) Side Bearing the Inscription. (D) Side to Right of the Inscription. The Inscriptions of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses and the Bridekirk Font
Western art unattributed:
The Inscription on the Bridekirk Font.
Western art unattributed:
The Old English Runic Alphabet on the Ruthwell Cross. [Letters Marked Doubtful by Victor Are Bracketed: z, c Are Used for Palatal and g, k, for the Guttural Sounds.]
Article
An Interpretation of the Phaistos Disk
04/1911 | 97 | 19
Pages: 23-29+32-38
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Author:
Stawell, F. Melian (Stawell, F. Melian)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Archaeological Museum of Iráklion, Iráklion, Crete, Greece
places:
Greece / Crete / Cyprus
subjects:
Ceramics / Greek (ancient) / Alphabets
subjects:
Minoan / Archaeology / Excavations
works:
Phaistos Disk (Phaestos Disc), (Archaeological Museum of Iraklion, Crete, Greece)
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
Plate I. The Phaistos Disk: Face B. An Interpretation of the Phaistos Disk
Western art unattributed:
Plate II. The Phaistos Disk: Face A. An Interpretation of the Phaistos Disk
Short Notice
Two Woodcut Alphabets of the Fifteenth Century
09/1910 | 90 | 17
Pages: 362-363+365
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Author:
Dodgson, Campbell (Dodgson, Campbell; D., C.)
Subjects
dates:
1450-1499
places:
England / London
subjects:
Alphabets / Gothic (Medieval) / Dating / Attributions
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
Woodcut Alphabet of the Fifteenth Century in the Collection of Mr. C. W. Dyson Perrins. Two Woodcut Alphabets of the Fifteenth Century
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