Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309
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Sale 2309 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
RESTORATION CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT EATON, ANTHONY; and MARPLE, JOHN. [Copy Book.] manuscript in english and latin, written in a variety of scripts in black ink on laid paper. [23] leaves, each backed with linen. Folio, 296x194 mm, russet morocco by Arthur Johnson, stamp-signed and dated 1958 on rear lower turn-in, with 3 triple-fillet panels separated by 2 rows of small stars in circles on covers; top portion of contents dampstained throughout, ink in most large initials oxidized with resulting holes, each leaf backed with linen. Bookplate of Richard J. P. Burls. England, 1673
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scarce survival, consisting of 21 specimens with decorated headings in the order of the Latin alphabet minus the letters X through Z but including W, followed by a leaf of Latin-English doggerel, and final leaf with micrographic Lord's Prayer written inside a circle measuring approximately 24 mm in diameter above a SATOR word square. Most of the specimens are signed by Eaton, one with his ownership inscription in alphanumeric code; 4 are signed by Marple. Heal (pages 48 and 72) cites an 1872 paper on this manuscript by Henry Syer Cuming, which appeared in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Volume 28, pages 401-08; an earlier description had been published in the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Volume 5, pages 127-30.