Libro di M. Giovam Battista Palatino, cittadino romano, nelqual s'insegna à scriuer ogni sorte lettera, antica & moderna, di qualunque natione, con le sue regole & misure, & essempi :
et con vn breve et vtil discorso de le cifre : riueduto nuouamente & corretto dal proprio autore, con la givnta di qvindici tavole bellissime.

Description

Main Author

Palatino, Giovanni Battista, active 16th century.

Related Names

Palatino, Giovanni Battista, 16th cent.

Language(s)

Italian

Published

In Roma : Per Valerio Dorico alla Chiauica de Santa Lucia, ad instantia de m. Giouan della Gatta, l'anno M.D.LXI. [1561]

Subjects

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

Note

Port. of author on t.p. Model scripts and alphabets, some printed white on black. "Sonetto figurato" (sonnet in rebus, F6v-F8r). Full-page cut of writing implements, G8v. Full-page device with moth and flame, H7v. Foliated and historiated initials.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: A-H⁸ (H⁸ blank).
Original ed. published Rome, 1540, with title: Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere. First expanded ed., with title close to that of present work, published 1545; see Bonacini. A number of pages in the present ed. bear the date 1545.

Physical Description

[128] p. (the last 2 blank) : ill., port. ; 20 cm. (4to)

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