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Original Handwritten French Legal Manuscript
Date: 1697
Condition: Very good
Price: $50
Paper Dimensions: 9 3/4 inches Height by 6 3/4 inches Width
Image Dimensions: 9 3/4 inches Height by 6 3/4 inches Width
A manuscript is a recording of information that has been created manually by a person, for example a hand-written letter, instead of being printed, or reproduced in any other way. The word manuscript comes from the Medieval Latin word manuscriptum, which was first seen in 1594. Manuscripts do not just contain words, they can contain mathematical calculations, maps or illustrations.
Illuminated manuscripts have pictures, an elaborately embellished initial letter or even full-page illustrations.
Calligraphy (from the Greek kallos or beauty and graphe or writing) is sometimes called the art of fancy lettering, and all manuscripts are wonderful examples of this graphic art.
By the mid-1700's, there were special schools established to teach handwriting techniques, or penmanship. Master penmen were employed to copy official documents such as land deeds, birth and marriage certificates, military commissions and other legal documents.
Timothy Matlack was commissioned to write the final copy of the Declaration of Independence, and Jacob Shallus penned the final copy of the Constitution of the United States of America.
Date: 1697
Condition: Very good
Price: $50
Paper Dimensions: 9 3/4 inches Height by 6 3/4 inches Width
Image Dimensions: 9 3/4 inches Height by 6 3/4 inches Width
A manuscript is a recording of information that has been created manually by a person, for example a hand-written letter, instead of being printed, or reproduced in any other way. The word manuscript comes from the Medieval Latin word manuscriptum, which was first seen in 1594. Manuscripts do not just contain words, they can contain mathematical calculations, maps or illustrations.
Illuminated manuscripts have pictures, an elaborately embellished initial letter or even full-page illustrations.
Calligraphy (from the Greek kallos or beauty and graphe or writing) is sometimes called the art of fancy lettering, and all manuscripts are wonderful examples of this graphic art.
By the mid-1700's, there were special schools established to teach handwriting techniques, or penmanship. Master penmen were employed to copy official documents such as land deeds, birth and marriage certificates, military commissions and other legal documents.
Timothy Matlack was commissioned to write the final copy of the Declaration of Independence, and Jacob Shallus penned the final copy of the Constitution of the United States of America.
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