Lo presente libro insegna la vera arte delo excelle[n]te scriuere de diuerse varie sorti de litere :
lequali 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 MDXXXIX.

Description

Main Author

Tagliente, Giovanni Antonio.

Related Names

Celebrino, Eustachio, approximately 1480-approximately 1555.

Language(s)

Italian

Published

Stampato in Vinegia : Per Giouanniantonio de Nicolini da Sabio, M D XXXIX [1539]

Subjects

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

Note

Leaf [22] verso printed upside down.
Rectos of 2nd through 15th leaves lettered B-P at lower right-hand corner (signatures?).
Except for letterpress dedication on verso of 1st leaf, printed from woodcut blocks through p. [48], from there on largely in italic letterpress. Two full-page ill. depicting writing paraphernalia, p. [54], and an astronomer observing the heavens, p. [64].
"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 1st ed.
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. ; 20 cm. (4to)

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