Audley End Part 5: Henry Savile's Greek Handwriting

Topic: Audley End Part 5: Henry Savile's Greek Handwriting

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• Source-tier warning, 2026-04-28: the blog/image trail is locally preserved, but claims introduced as “the same post states” are not independently verified archival facts until the relevant manuscript/book images, catalog records, and handwriting comparisons are separately pinned down.

• The same post identifies the book as:

“Sphaerics by Theodosius of Bythinia”

• The same post states:

“Provenance records from the Billingbear Book list confirm the volume was at the Neville family home in 1780 before moving to Audley End.”

• The same post states that the analysis compares Greek handwriting across:

“a 1600 letter from Savile to Neville, annotations in another Audley End book, and the annotation in Sphaerics.”

• The same post states:

“The author demonstrates that the letters on the left are from Theodosius, the ones on the right are from Savile's letter”

• The same post states:

“Savile was one of the few people in England at the time who had the sophisticated knowledge of Greek and geometry to make such annotations.”

• The same post states:

“An expert in Savile's work confirmed the identification”

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• A Ken Feinstein blog post dated 15 Dec. 2019 states:

“The author has identified Greek language annotations in a geometry text as belonging to Henry Savile”

3. Quoted Source Text

Ken Feinstein blog post, 15 Dec. 2019

• “The author has identified Greek language annotations in a geometry text as belonging to Henry Savile”
• “Sphaerics by Theodosius of Bythinia”
• “Provenance records from the Billingbear Book list confirm the volume was at the Neville family home in 1780 before moving to Audley End.”
• “a 1600 letter from Savile to Neville, annotations in another Audley End book, and the annotation in Sphaerics.”
• “The author demonstrates that the letters on the left are from Theodosius, the ones on the right are from Savile's letter”
• “Savile was one of the few people in England at the time who had the sophisticated knowledge of Greek and geometry to make such annotations.”
• “An expert in Savile's work confirmed the identification”

4. Citations

• Feinstein, Ken. “Part 5: Henry Savile's Greek Handwriting at Audley End.” kenfeinstein.blogspot.com, 15 Dec. 2019, https://kenfeinstein.blogspot.com/2019/12/part-5-henry-saviles-greek-handwriting.html. Local preservation: blog_audley_end_part5_2019-12-15.md.
• henry_savile.md, related Savile packet.
• billingbear.md, related Billingbear packet.

5. Notes on Access

• This packet preserves a Ken Feinstein blog post and its local image set.
• The packet records the post’s attribution and provenance claims as blog-post evidence, not as a direct catalog transcription.
• The blog post does not name the expert in Savile's work or provide a citable publication or communication trail for that confirmation, so that point should be treated as an uncited blog-post claim rather than as independent corroboration.
• 2026-04-21 web audit note: no public source was located that independently confirms the specific Audley End Greek annotation attribution. The packet should remain a lead packet until the physical volume and expert confirmation are pinned down.

6. Local Images