{"id":1101,"date":"2012-06-08T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.library.reed.edu\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2025-05-06T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:25:08","slug":"new-book-about-manuscripts-in-reeds-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/new-book-about-manuscripts-in-reeds-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book about Manuscripts in Reed\u2019s Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Origins, Glory & Decline of the Humanist Cursive in Italy 1400-1650<\/em> is a new title written by Reed alumnus Steve Herold \u201963 about the Early Writing Collection in the Reed library\u2019s special collections.\u00a0 Herold has traced the history of the italic cursive popularized by Professor Lloyd Reynolds in his calligraphy classes at Reed presented from 1938 until his retirement in 1969, when Robert Palladino continued the classes until 1984.\u00a0 For the last 8 years, Herold has been giving various documents to Reed\u2019s special collections to join those collected by Reynolds.\u00a0 Heavily illustrated with wonderful historical examples, the title also reprints a difficult-to-find article by Stanley Morison on \u201cEarly Humanist Script and the First Roman Typeface.\u201d\u00a0 It is available in the Reed bookstore<\/a> ($24.95).<\/p>\n

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The Origins, Glory & Decline of the Humanist Cursive in Italy 1400-1650 is a new title written by Reed alumnus Steve Herold \u201963 about the Early Writing Collection in the Reed library\u2019s special collections.\u00a0 Herold has traced the history of the italic cursive popularized by Professor Lloyd Reynolds in his calligraphy classes at Reed presented […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":5035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4879,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/4879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}