*Ø* Blogmanac August 10, 1575 | Amazing calligrapher completes masterpiece
On this day in 1575 We learn from Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles (the ones that Shakepeare used for some of his plots) that on this day, Peter Bales (Balesius), English calligrapher (1547-c.1610), completed writing the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Decalogue, two short Latin prayers, his own name, a motto, the day of the month, the year and the year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (to whom he presented it) all on an English penny. He made a ring out of it and covered it with crystal, and all the writing was legible. Bales in his brilliant career also wrote the whole Bible small enough to be cased in a walnut.
He also devised one of the earliest forms of shorthand, published in his book Arte of Brachygraphie (1590).
On this day in 1575 We learn from Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles (the ones that Shakepeare used for some of his plots) that on this day, Peter Bales (Balesius), English calligrapher (1547-c.1610), completed writing the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Decalogue, two short Latin prayers, his own name, a motto, the day of the month, the year and the year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (to whom he presented it) all on an English penny. He made a ring out of it and covered it with crystal, and all the writing was legible. Bales in his brilliant career also wrote the whole Bible small enough to be cased in a walnut.
He also devised one of the earliest forms of shorthand, published in his book Arte of Brachygraphie (1590).
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