Libro di M. Giovam Battista Palatino, cittadino romano, nelqual s'insegna à scriuer ogni sorte lettera, antica & moderna, di qualunque natione, con le sue regole & misure, & essempi : et con vn breve et vtil discorso de le cifre : riueduto nuouamente & corretto dal proprio autore, con la givnta di qvindici tavole bellissime
A 1561 Roman writing manual by Giovanni Battista Palatino, published in Rome by Valerio Dorico, teaching penmanship to scribes and students of hand lettering across ancient and modern scripts. The pictures are printed pages of ornamented title panels, letter alphabets and flourished abbreviation tables set in framed borders, showing how calligraphic forms were built and arranged, which a designer might take as models for lettering layouts and decorative initials.
