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Libro di M. Giovanbattista Palatino cittadino romano : nel qual s'insegna à scriuere ogni sorte lettera, antica, et moderna, di qualunque natione, con le sue regole, et misure, et essempi : et con vn breve, et vtil discorso de le cifre

by: Palatino, Giovanni Battista, active 16th century; Palatino, Giovanni Battista, 16th cent. Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere

Publication date: 1548

Topics: Penmanship, Alphabets, Lettering

Publisher: In Roma in Campo di Fiore : Per Antonio Blado asolano

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Italian

Imprint from colophon, H7r

Original ed. published Rome, 1540, under title: Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere. First expanded ed., with title as that of present work, published 1545. See Bonacini

Illustrations: port. of author on t.p.; model scripts and alphabets; "Sonetto figurato" (sonnet in rebus, F6v-F8r); full-page cut of writing implements, G8v; moth/flame device, H7v; historiated initials

Signatures: A-H⁸ (H8 blank)

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600

Bonacini, C. Arti scrittorie

Getty copy lacks final blank

Binding: modern marbled paper, half dark green goatskin. Gilt title on spine. Four-character embossed legend at upper left corner of front free endpaper, perhaps binder's name. Green silk place marker