Incipit liber primus[-quartus] Elementorum litterarum

Verini, Giovanni Battista, active 1526, Paganino, Alessandro, printer, Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner · 1526 · [Toscalano : Alessandro Paganino] · 82 pictures

Incipit liber primus-quartus Elementorum litterarum is a 1526 printed manual of letter construction by Giovanni Battista Verini, printed by Alessandro Paganino at Toscalano for scribes and type designers learning letterforms. The pictures show roman capitals and lowercase letters built from square and circular geometry, with construction lines, numbered points and arcs drawn over solid black letter shapes, a method a designer could use to draft letters from compass and ruler.

Lettering · Penmanship

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