A booke of diveirs devises and sortes of pictures, with the alphabete of letters, deuised and drawne with the pen ... [manuscript], 1585, 1593-1594, 1622 / devised and made by T.F.
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Title
A booke of diveirs devises and sortes of pictures, with the alphabete of letters, deuised and drawne with the pen ... [manuscript], 1585, 1593-1594, 1622 / devised and made by T.F.
Uniform title
Book of diverse devises and sorts of pictures with the alphabete of letters
A collection of emblems, proverbs, poems, including one on the various months of the year, and a scrivener's alphabet compiled by T.F. at Dunwich, Suffolk. Numerous pen and ink illustrations of natural history and country life.
Note
Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines.
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Historical background
T.F. was Thomas Fella who may have been a professional scribe.
Publications about material
See "Lively drawings of a Suffolk scrivener," by J.L. Nevinson, an offprint from Country life annual, 1964. Thomas Fella of Halesworth, Suffolk, draper and writing master : his booke of divers devices and sorts of pictures ([Suffolk] : J.M. Blatchly and M.N. Sanford, 2012)
Provenance
Jane Sparrow, 1714 -- Philip Simpson -- William May of Gower's Farm, Stisted, Essex, 1860 -- Frederick May, 1873, MS.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1979-1982. Shakespeare, the Globe, and the World, (catalog pp. 38-39). Opening: fols. 54v-55r. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1997-1998. Housewife's Rich Cabinet. Opening: fols. 46v-47r. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999. Seeing What Shakespeare Means. Opening: fols. 50v-51r. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999. Fooles and Fricassees, (catalog pp. 12, 57). Opening: fols. 30v-31r. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2002. The Pen's Excellencie : Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library, (catalog pp. 98-100). Opening: fols. 54v-55r. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print. Opening: fols. 34v-35r. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2009. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream. Opening: fols. 23v-24r. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2012-2013. Very Like a Whale. Opening: fols. 72v-73r. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs. Opening : Open to December.
Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 2058.1
