Inspiration from 1608
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. is currently featuring the beautiful book design of the Trevelyon Manuscript.
The Trevelyon Miscellany is not a book to be read from beginning to end. Start anywhere and savor the vibrant patterns, moralizing rhymes, historical and scriptural texts, and colorful pictures-the dialogue between word and image that makes it a unique mixture of many familiar genres. Thomas Trevelyon’s 600-page manuscript can best be described as a prototype coffee table book, created for the entertainment, education, and edification of his friends and family. The subject matter leaps from mundane to mythical, poetic to practical. Familiar scenes of domesticity and husbandry are intertwined with epic religious and political epitomes.
Admission is free.
