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Arte subtilissima. por la qual se enseña a escreuir perfectamente

Title
Arte subtilissima. por la qual se enseña a escreuir perfectamente

Alternative Title: Ortographia practica
Creator / Contributor
Iciar, Juan de, 1523?-?
Place of Origin
Spain
Imprimio se en Caragoça
Publisher
En casa de Pedro Bernuz
Date
año de 1550
Language
Spanish; Castilian
Description
Extent: [86] leaves : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
print
Subjects
Places
Spain--Zaragoza
Genre
Writing books-Spain-Zaragoza-1550.
Alphabet books-Spain-Zaragoza-1550.
Early works to 1800
Notes
Second edition, enlarged. First published Zaragoza, 1548 under title: Recopilacion subtilissima, intitulada, Orthographia pratica.
Colophon: Fue impresso el presente libro llamado Ortographia practica, enla muy noble y leal ciudad de Caragoça, en casa de Pedro Bernuz. Acabo se a veynte y tres dias del mes de Iulio, en el año de mil y quinientos y cinquenta.
Signatures: A⁶ B-L⁸.
Woodcuts: title within architectural border; arms of the dedicatee, Philip (later Philip II, King of Spain) (fol. [2]r); portrait of Iciar at age 25 (fol. [4]v); printer's devices of Georg Coci and Pedro Bernuz (fol. [86]r); writing samples, full-page borders, historiated initials. Each letterpress text page within one of four different four-part woodcut borders.
Woodcut title-page border, other full-page borders, border pieces portrait, initials, and writing samples cut by Jean de Vingles. Most of the writing samples are signed by both Iciar and Vingles and dated 1547, 1548, or 1550; the four-part borders are signed by Iciar and Vingles, and two are dated 1550.
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2013. Copy digitized: Houghton Library: TypW 560.50.460
Attribution: hecho y experimentado, y agora de nueuo añadido, por Iuan de Yciar vizcayno.
Repository
Houghton Library, Harvard University

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