Libro nvovo d'imparare a scrivere tvtte sorte lettere antiche et moderne di tvtte nationi, C2 verso. con nvove regole misvre et essempi : con vn breue & vtile trattato de le cifere
- Title
- Libro nvovo d'imparare a scrivere tvtte sorte lettere antiche et moderne di tvtte nationi, C2 verso. con nvove regole misvre et essempi : con vn breue & vtile trattato de le cifere
Alternative Title: Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere tutte sorte lettere, C2 verso
Alternative Title: Libro nuovo, C2 verso - Creator / Contributor
- Palatino, Giovanni Battista, active 16th century
- Place of Origin
- Italy
[Rome - Publisher
- B. Giunta
- Date
- 1540]
- Language
- Italian
- Description
- Extent: [104] p. : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
print - Subjects
- Penmanship
Copybooks--Italy
Italy--Rome - Places
- Italy--Rome
- Abstract
- Contains writing instructions for, and specimens of, various scripts, especially the chancery cursive, but includes other scripts as well, such as roman capitals, French, German, Spanish, mercantile, and notarial hands, backwards or left-handed letters ("mancina"), and letters tied together ("trattizata"). There are also a section on cryptography (p. [58]-[73]), an extended rebus on a love sonnet, and specimens of exotic alphabets, such as Hebrew, Greek, Chaldean, Egyptian, Arabic, and Saracen. The final section contains advice on selecting writing instruments, cutting quills, preparing ink, and learning to write.
- Genre
- Writing books-Italy-1540.
- Notes
- Colophon: Stampata in Roma appresso Campo di Fiore nelle case di M. Benedetto Gionta per Baldassarre di Francesco cartolari perugino, a di XII d'Agosto. M.D.XXXX.
In some copies last line of colophon reads: a di 12. d'agosto. M.D.XL.
Signatures: A-N⁴.
Author's woodcut portrait on t.p., and his device on verso of last leaf.
Attribution: composto per Giouambattista Palatino cittadino romano. - Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
