Manuscript verses signed, in praise of John Aylmer and John Whitgift

Item author: Peter Bales, writing master
Item date: 1594
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 10,000
Item date acquired: 1998
Item institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

Bales was the greatest English calligrapher of the Elizabethan age, and these Latin verses are a fine example of his exquisite penmanship. The Latin verses were probably written as a flattering present for Archbishop John Whitgift from whom Bales hoped for patronage. Illustrated at p. 47 of AR