Script Collection (page 7)

Ancient script on pillar, Quadrangle, Polonnaruwa (UNESCO World Heritage Site), North Central Province, Sri Lanka

Script
Dan Hobday

Fiery script
Little Dean

RMSTitanic, letter, United Artists Studos
RMS TITANIC: Previously unseen letter, dated 5th May 1938 on United Artists Studio Corporation, Hollywood notepaper to Titanic First-Class passenger Laura Mabel Francatelli

Letter to Laura Francatelli, RMS Titanic survivor
White Star Line, RMS Titanic. Previously unseen letter dated 5th May 1938 on United Artists Studio Corporation, Hollywood notepaper to Titanic First Class passenger Laura Mabel Francatelli

Giuseppe de Begnis, Italian operatic bass singer
Giuseppe de Begnis (1793-1849), Italian operatic bass singer Date: early 19th century

Maria Pita - Spanish heroine
Maria Pita (Maria Mayor Fernandez de Camara y Pita) (1565-1643). Spanish heroine. Philip II awarded her the rank of ensign for the defense of Corunna against the attack of the English Armada in 1589

George Formby Snr and Luisa Tetrazzini, recording studio
George Formby Snr recording his voice, with opera singer Luisa Tetrazzini watching Date: 1949

Noted Hymnal (Fragment)
Leaf from a hymnal, parchment. Text in a gothic script in two columns interspersed with musical notation in a German gothic hufnagel style on a 4-line stave with C marked. Date: 13th Century

Psalter (Fragments)
Parts of three bifolia from a psalter, parchment. Text in a single column in a Gothic rotunda script in dark brown ink with alternating red and blue decorated capitals and larger red

Bible (Fragment)
Leaf from a Bible, parchment. Main body text in a rounded Gothic script in black in two columns. No coloured pigments. Date: circa 14th Century

Liber Sextus Decretalium (Fragment)
Leaf from a copy of the Liber Sextus Decretalium or Decretals of Pope Boniface VIII, parchment. Main body text in two columns in a cursive documentary script

Legal Text? (Fragment)
Two fragments from the same manuscript, parchment. Original text unknown. Text is in a cursive documentary script in brown in a single column recto and verso on both fragments

Categoriae Decem (Fragment)
Single quarto sized leaf, parchment, with text from the Categoriae Decem, a summary of the categories of Aristotle, originally attributed to St Augustine. Text in a minuscule script in dark brown

Philosophical Treatise (Fragment)
Half of a leaf, paper. Text in black in three columns in a cursive documentary script. It is heavily abbreviated but appears to be a philosophical text. The top half of the leaf is missing

Justinian Digesta, Books V and VI (Fragment)
Bifolium from a copy of Justinian's Pandects, or Digesta Justiniani Augusti, parchment. Containing part of the end of Book V (De Judiciis) and the beginning of Book VI (De Rei Vindicatione)

Hebrew Manuscript Fragments
Two folios, parchment, probably from the same manuscript but not necessarily consecutive. Text is from the Book of Genesis, beginning at Chapter 7, verse 18 on f.1, and ends at Chapter 48 on f.2

Sweden, Stockholm. Storkyrkan (Saint Nicholas Cathedral). Detail of a tombstone. Date: 2015

Yakovlev Yak-18T SSSR-81434 (msn 368), at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1975, with airshow serial 368'

Antonov An-28 SSSR-48015 (msn 04), at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1979. (Note: CCCP in Cyrillic script = SSSR = USSR = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Date: 1979

Antonov An-32 SSSR-83966, of Aeroflot, at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1977. (Note: CCCP in Cyrillic script = SSSR = USSR = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Date: 1977

Yakovlev Yak-42 SSSR-42303, the prototype Yak-42, at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1977, with airshow serial 342'

Hieratic papyrus. Process document. Conspirator death lawsui
Hieratic papyrus. Cursive writing system, used in Ancient Egypt. Process document. Conspirator death lawsuit against Ramses III Egyptian Museum of Turin. Italy

Egyptian art. Fragment of a papyrus with hieroglyphic writing. Egyptian Museum of Turin. Italy

Egyptians writing
Egyptian writing. Upper: Letter to a deceased on papyrus. Around 2000 BC. End of the First Intermediate Period. Origin unknown. Lower: Hieratic Papyrus. Ptolemaic Period. 305-30 BC. Origin unknown

Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, writers
Keith Spencer Waterhouse (1929-2009), English novelist, journalist and writer of TV series. Seen here (left) with his friend and co-writer Willis Hall (1929-2005). Date: 1960

Anthony Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter
Anthony Joshua Shaffer (1926-2001), English barrister, advertising executive, novelist, playwright and screenwriter, identical twin brother of the writer and dramatist Peter Shaffer

Tony Benn, Labour politician, giving a speech
Tony Benn (Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, 1925-2014), Labour politician, former Cabinet Minister and currently President of the Stop the War Coalition

Courtesan reading a tanzaku (colour woodcut)
GLS314160 Courtesan reading a tanzaku (colour woodcut) by Japanese School; 22.3x19.1 cm; Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

Geisha on the balcony of a cherry tree pavilion, c. 1830 (colour woodcut)
GLS314158 Geisha on the balcony of a cherry tree pavilion, c.1830 (colour woodcut) by Kuniyoshi, Ichiyusai (1797-1861); 20.3x17.8 cm; Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

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Two warriors smoking a pipe at a bridge entrance, c. 1825 (colour woodcut)
GLS314159 Two warriors smoking a pipe at a bridge entrance, c.1825 (colour woodcut) by Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849); 20.9x17.8 cm; Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

Young man being handed his sedge hat, c. 1768 (colour woodcut)
GLS314153 Young man being handed his sedge hat, c.1768 (colour woodcut) by Harunobu, Suzuki (1725-70); 27.9x20.9 cm; Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

Five Japanese women (colour woodcut)
GLS314152 Five Japanese women (colour woodcut) by Japanese School; Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, Scotland; © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection

Artist standing on the back of a man and writing on a column, c. 1820 (colour woodcut)
GLS314150 Artist standing on the back of a man and writing on a column, c.1820 (colour woodcut) by Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849); 34.9x6.9 cm; Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

Fisherman smoking beside a stream, c. 1835 (colour woodcut)
GLS314149 Fisherman smoking beside a stream, c.1835 (colour woodcut) by Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849); 21.6x21.6 cm; Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

Two courtesans, c. 1800-10 (colour woodcut)
GLS314143 Two courtesans, c.1800-10 (colour woodcut) by Utamaro, Kitagawa (1753-1806); 33x22.8 cm; Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

Seated courtesan with a book, c. 1804-29 (colour woodcut)
GLS314142 Seated courtesan with a book, c.1804-29 (colour woodcut) by Eizan, Kikukawa (1787-1867); 36.8x24.1 cm; Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

Depiction of a legendary tale (colour woodcut)
GLS314155 Depiction of a legendary tale (colour woodcut) by Japanese School; 20.3x17.8 cm; Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

Courtesan and attendants heating sake, c. 1766-80 (colour woodcut)
GLS314151 Courtesan and attendants heating sake, c.1766-80 (colour woodcut) by Koryusai, Isoda (1735-90); 31.2x22.9 cm; Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

Warrior in full armour, c. 1825 (colour woodcut)
GLS314146 Warrior in full armour, c.1825 (colour woodcut) by Hokkei, Aigaoka (1780-1850); 21.5x18.4 cm; Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

Actor, Segawa Michinosuke, in the part of the Courtesan Omune, 1807 (colour woodcut)
GLS314145 Actor, Segawa Michinosuke, in the part of the Courtesan Omune, 1807 (colour woodcut) by Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849); 38.1x25.4 cm; Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

Courtesan making a parade, c. 1816 (colour woodcut)
GLS314163 Courtesan making a parade, c.1816 (colour woodcut) by Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849); 35.5x16.5 cm; Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

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Ms. 46-1980 Free Warren Charter, grant of game rights by Edward I to Roger de Pilkington, 1291
FIT58839 Ms.46-1980 Free Warren Charter, grant of game rights by Edward I to Roger de Pilkington, 1291 by English School, (13th century); 19 x 28 cm; Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

Actor - Design for a Fan (colour woodblock print)
BIR190007 Actor - Design for a Fan (colour woodblock print) by Hokushiu (19th century); Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Relief fragment from the tomb of Hor-nankht (limestone)
3483865 Relief fragment from the tomb of Hor-nankht (limestone) by Egyptian 18th Dynasty (c.1567-1320 BC); Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

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"Unveiling the Power of Script: A Journey through Time and Cultures" Step into the British Museum in London, England, where history comes alive through ancient artifacts. Among them stands the iconic Rosetta Stone, a symbol of deciphering mysteries from the past. The Rosetta Stone, housed within this magnificent institution in Europe's United Kingdom, holds clues to unlocking forgotten languages. Its inscriptions paved the way for understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs and demotic script. Delving further into written legacies, we encounter another remarkable manuscript – Hippocrates' code of ethical conduct known as The Hippocratic Oath. This Byzantine masterpiece from the 12th century is intricately crafted in cross-shaped form. In Paris, France, Europe's artistic hub, a Torah scroll catches our eye. Adorned with Silver Crown finials made of paper, wood & silver by William Cutbush and Sons; it represents Jewish traditions passed down through generations. Script not only preserves cultural heritage but also captures literary brilliance. Renowned poet Dylan Thomas harnessed its power to create timeless verses that resonate with readers even today. Beyond language and literature lies an intriguing aspect – the development of alphabets. Witness how different civilizations shaped their unique scripts over time; each stroke telling a story of human ingenuity. From East to West, calligraphy emerges as an art form celebrated worldwide. In Japan, a young girl practices her brush strokes diligently - honing her skills while embracing tradition and beauty intertwined on paper. But script extends beyond pen and ink; it permeates every facet of life. From Kelways Manual guiding gardeners on plants and seeds to Carters Winter and Spring Flowers catalog enticing green thumbs everywhere - words shape our botanical world too. In this digital age dominated by screens and keyboards, let us not forget that even computer code relies on script's foundation—strings of characters weaving together intricate algorithms powering our interconnected world.