英语词汇calligraphy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

calligraphy. The word comes from the Greek for “beautiful writing.” In its sense of small handwriting the historical Hemingway of calligraphy is Peter Bales (1547-ca. 1610), who is also said to be one of the inventors of shorthand. Diarist John Evelyn tells us that the dexterous Bales wrote “the Lord’s Prayer, The Creed, Decalogue, with two short prayers in Latin, his own name, motto, day of the month, year of the Lord, and reign of the Queen, to whom he presented it at Hampton Court, all of it written within the circle of a single penny, incased in a ring and borders of gold, and covered with a crystal, so accurately wrought as to be plainly legible, to the great admiration of her majesty . . .” However, several later calligraphers bettered Bales’s record. According to The Guinness Book of World Records (1998), “During the mid 1950s Horace Dall of Luton, England built a pantograph—which reduces movement—fitted with a diamond stylus, with which he engraved writing small enough to fit 140 Bibles to one square inch.”

词汇	calligraphy
词源	calligraphy. The word comes from the Greek for “beautiful writing.” In its sense of small handwriting the historical Hemingway of calligraphy is Peter Bales (1547-ca. 1610), who is also said to be one of the inventors of shorthand. Diarist John Evelyn tells us that the dexterous Bales wrote “the Lord’s Prayer, The Creed, Decalogue, with two short prayers in Latin, his own name, motto, day of the month, year of the Lord, and reign of the Queen, to whom he presented it at Hampton Court, all of it written within the circle of a single penny, incased in a ring and borders of gold, and covered with a crystal, so accurately wrought as to be plainly legible, to the great admiration of her majesty . . .” However, several later calligraphers bettered Bales’s record. According to The Guinness Book of World Records (1998), “During the mid 1950s Horace Dall of Luton, England built a pantograph—which reduces movement—fitted with a diamond stylus, with which he engraved writing small enough to fit 140 Bibles to one square inch.”
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