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A Venetian writing manual printed in 1583 by Altobello Salicato and compiled by Giovanni Francesco Cresci, a sixteenth-century penman, for scribes and students of hand lettering. The pages show ornate framed specimen sheets of blackletter, italic and humanist capitals, and decorative initials set among dense scrollwork borders. A designer could draw on the varied letterforms, flourished capitals and carved-looking frame ornament for display type and title pages.
