Queen Elizabeth-I identified as author of Tacitus translation

London: The analysis of unique handwriting in an anonymous 16th-century manuscript translation of Tacitus’s Annals has led an academic to determine the author to be Queen Elizabeth-I.

The research, analyzed the translation’s paper stock, style, and crucially the handwriting preserved in the manuscript to positively identify Elizabeth-I as the translation’s author.

The translation of Roman historian Tacitus’s work found its way to Lambeth Palace Library in London in the 17th century.

John-Mark Philo, an honorary fellow in English studies at the University of East Anglia, found persuasive similarities between unique handwriting styles in the Lambeth manuscript and numerous examples of the queen’s distinctive handwriting in her other translations, including the extreme horizontal’ and the top stroke of her ‘e’.

“The Queen’s handwriting was, to put it mildly, idiosyncratic, and the same distinctive features which characterise her late hand are also to be found in the Lambeth manuscript,” Philo said. (IANS)

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