Opera del reverendo padre don Avgvstino da Sciena, monaco certosino :
nellaquale s'insegna a scriuere varie sorti di lettere, tanto cancellaresche, quanto mercantesche : con varie sorti di lettere todesche, con diuerse sorti di alphabetti bellissimi, & con alcune dechiarationi del temperar della penna : et vna recetta per far l'inchiostro negrissimo, con tanta facilità, che ciascheduno per semplice che sia, lo farà.

Description

Main Author

Augustino, da Siena.

Language(s)

Italian

Published

In Venetia : Per Francesco de Tomaso di Salò, e compagni in Frezzaria, al segno della Fede, M D LXXIII [1573]

Edition

Opera nvova non piv data in lvce.

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

Signatures: A-E⁸.
Printer's device on t.p. ("Fede"). A1v, A2r and E8v blank. The t.p., A2v, and E8r are printed from type, remaining pages printed from woodcut blocks with alphabets and texts, ornamented in places with birds and plants. Each page within a woodcut border.
Second ed., despite edition statement retained from ed. of 1568. First published 1565. See Bonacini.

Physical Description

[80] p. (the last blank) ; 21 cm. (4to)

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