Bank, Arnold, 1908-1986 (calligrapher)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1908 - 1986
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
File
Acquisition of Frederic Warde's Arrighi italic type, 1935-1963
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/E/1
Scope and Contents
Correspondence; notes on this item by Sebastian Carter; showings of the type (1935-1995); trial settings of Spenser, Epithalamium in this type (marked 'Ephithalamium - project'). Correspondents include Arnold Bank, Joseph Blumenthal, Christopher Bradshaw, Jackson Burke, Harry Carter, John Carter, Douglas Cleverdon, Marshall Davidson, Franz Hess (only copies of letters from Will Carter to him), Charles W. Hobson, John Holroyd-Reece, Ernest Ingham, Roger Levenson, Matt. P. Loman, Giovanni...
Dates:
1935-1963
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Correspondence between Morison and Arnold Bank, 1947-1966
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9812/D/11
Scope and Contents
Folder 1 = 1947-1954; with correspondence about Bank's applications for fellowships (1950, 1955) Folder 2 = 1955-1966 Folders 3, 4 = Miscellaneous notes (some stats) by Bank on scripts, probably mostly ca. 1957 Folder 5 = Further notes by Bank, oversize Folder 6 = a large bifolium containing the New Testament Christmas story in Latin and English written out in a medieval hand by Bank and inscribed to Morison at Christmas 1952, large oversize.
Dates:
1947-1966
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Files on individual people
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9815/A
Scope and Contents
John Dreyfus's files consisting principally of correspondence, but also clippings, examples of printing (if the person was a printer or engraver), compositions by the person, and in some cases Dreyfus's research notes and compositions relating to the person. Some files have the name of a press or other corporate body rather than a person. The contents of this series are as follows: Box 1 = Abacus Typographers, Olive F. Abbott, George Abrams, Elmer Adler, Alexander Alexieff, Greer Allen,...
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).