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The Macclesfield Alphabet Book is the most complete surviving pattern book from medieval England and contains 14 different types of decorative alphabets. Created ca. 1490, the #manuscript was part of the library of the Earls of Macclesfield from ca. 1750 until 2009 when it was acquired by the British Library for the princely sum of £600,000. It was likely used as a sample book for potential customers in an atelier producing manuscripts. Very few books of this type have survived to the present and offer precious insights into the process of manuscript production as well as being a valuable tool for research in #art history and material culture studies.

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