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Lo presente libro insegna la vera arte delo excelle[n]te scriuere de diuerse varie sorti de litere : le quali se fano p[e]r geometrica ragione & con la presente opera ognuno le potra imparare impochi giorni p[er] lo amaistramento, ragione, & essempli, come qui seguente vederai

Tagliente, Giovanni Antonio, Celebrino, Eustachio, approximately 1480-approximately 1555 · 1544 · In Vinegia : Per Giouann'Antonio e Pietro fratelli de Nicolini da Sabio · 39 pictures

A 1544 Venetian writing manual by Giovanni Antonio Tagliente, printed in Venice by the Nicolini da Sabio brothers for scribes and students who wanted to learn decorative geometric letterforms. The pictures show ornamented alphabets set on ruled pages, with flourished capitals, looping cursive lines, and a woodcut sheet of letters built from overlapping circles and grid construction, useful to a designer studying historic lettering structure and ornament.

Penmanship · Alphabets

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