Lo presente libro insegna la vera arte delo excelle[n]te scriuere de diuerse varie sorti de litere :
le quali se fano p[e]r geometrica ragione & con la presente opera ognuno le potra imparare impochi giorni p[er] lo amaistramento, ragione, & essempli, come qui seguente vederai /
opera del Tagliente nouamente composta cum gratia nel anno di n[ost]ra salute MDXXXXIIII.

Description

Main Author

Tagliente, Giovanni Antonio.

Related Names

Celebrino, Eustachio, approximately 1480-approximately 1555.

Language(s)

Italian

Published

In Vinegia : Per Giouann'Antonio e Pietro fratelli de Nicolini da Sabio, nel anno del Signore 1544.

Subjects

Alphabets > Alphabets / Early works to 1800.
Penmanship > Penmanship / Early works to 1800.
Woodcuts > Woodcuts / Italy > Woodcuts / Italy / 16th century.

Note

Second through 15th leaves lettered B-P at lower right-hand corner of rectos (signatures?).
Except for letterpress dedication on verso of 1st leaf, printed from woodcut blocks through leaf [25], and from there on largely in italic letterpress. Four full-page illustrations, the first two of which did not appear in Giovanniantonio's ed. of 1539: leaf [21]v, four panels with depictions of a ship, swine, fruit, fowl; [25]v, an allegory with 3 hearts; [26]v, writing paraphernalia; [32]v, an astronomer observing the heavens. Decorated and historiated initials in letterpress section.
"Il libro contiene dei modelli di Lettera cancellaresca, mercantesca, francesca, antiqua tonda, fiorentina, bollatica, imperiale, et gli alfabeti ebraico, persiano, e caldeo"--Bonacini 1807, describing the 1st ed. of 1524.
Imprint from colophon.
First published 1524 with blocks cut by Eustachio Celebrino. Expanded eds. in 1525. See A.S. Osley, Luminario, p. 18, 24.

Physical Description

[64] p. : ill. ; 22 cm. (4to)

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