Marie Pavie (fl. 1600) was a calligrapher active in France at the beginning of the seventeenth century and one of the earliest women to have published a copybook, Le premier essay de la plume de Marie Pavie, under her own name.
Life & work
Pavie, along with Dutch calligrapher Maria Strick, were part of a vanishingly small group of professional early-modern women calligraphers. Little is known about Pavie's life and there are only two copies of her book extant, and one of those partial: the Newberry Library in Chicago holds the only known complete copy,A fully digitized version is available online. and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris has some leaves.Marolles collection: Paris BNF (Est.): Kb31 fol. Copybooks tended to receive heavy usage and many have not survived.
References
Bibliography Mediavilla, Claude. History of French calligraphy. Paris: 2006, p.192. Le premier essay de la plume de Marie Pavie. S.l., 1608. 4° obl., 25 pl. (Newberry Library, Chicago: Wing ZW 639.P283, 15 pl. Available online ).
See also List of female calligraphers