Donald Jackson Scroll

Collection

Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-JacksonD

Staff Only

Abstract

A Roman capitals demonstration sheet created by calligrapher Donald Jackson, about 20 feet in length, from a class taught in San Francisco in 1977.

Dates

Creation: 1977

Creator

Jackson, Donald, 1938- (Person)

Language

Materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

The Donald Jackson Scroll is open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room.

Ownership and Literary Rights

The Donald Jackson Scroll the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.

Biography of Donald Jackson

Donald Jackson is a British calligrapher who is the official scribe and calligrapher to the Crown Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He is the artistic director of the Saint John’s Bible, a handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned by the Benedictine monastery of Saint John’s Abbey in Minnesota.

After studying at the Bolton School of Art, Central School of Arts and Crafts, and Goldsmiths’ College, he went on to teach at the Camberwell College of Art in London.

Jackson is the author of The Story Of Writing (1981) and The Calligrapher's Art (1985).