Scribes and sources : handbook of the chancery hand in the sixteenth century : texts from the writing-masters / selected, introduced, and translated by A.S. Osley ; with an account of John de Beauchesne by Berthold Wolpe.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Osley, A. S.
• Wolpe, Berthold.
• Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

• English
• Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

• Writing, Humanistic.
• Calligraphy.
• Penmanship--History--16th century.
• Penmanship.
• History.

Penn Provenance:

• Traister, Barbara (autograph, 25 February 1980)
• Traister, Daniel (autograph, 25 February 1980) (donor)

Physical Description:

291 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : D.R. Godine, [1980]

Contents:

• Humanists on handwriting : Erasmus and Vives / A.S. Osley
• Cornelius helps Andreas to write from the dialogue Euntes in ludum in Colloquia familiaria, Basel, 1522 / Desiderius Erasmus
• Two noble Spanish youths learn to write from Linguae Latinae exercitatio, dialogue 9 / Juan Vives
• Pen-hold and posture from Theorica et pratica, bk. I / Sigismondo Fanti
• Tagliente's rules for handwriting from Lo presente libro (2nd expanded edition of 1524) / Giovannantonio Tagliente
• How to write the italic hand from La operina / Ludovico Vincentino degli Arrighi
• Concerning the tools of handwriting from Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere / Giovambattista Palatino
• How to cut quills from Un novo modo d'insegnar a scrivere / Vespasiano Amphiareo
• A discourse on the chancery hand from Opera ... nella quale si insegna a scrivere / Augustino da Siena
• The attributes of a secretary from Il perfetto cancellaresco corsivo / Giovan Francesco Cresci
• A successful partnership : Juan de Ycair with Juan de Vingles / A.S. Osley
• (Cont.) How the pen should be held in the hand from Recopilaci©đn subtil©Ưssima, first edition, 1548 / Juan de Ycair
• Handwriting : the accomplishment of a gentleman from Libro subtilissimo, pt. I, dialogue V / Pedro Madariaga
• An inventory of styles from Arte de escrevir, pt. I / Francisco Lucas
• Classroom organisation from Tratado y libro / Juan de la Cuesta
• The method and order to be observed to learn to write well from Arte muy provechoso (1583), introd. / Andres Brun
• How to write Latin letters which they call italic or cursive from Literarum Latinarum ... scribendi ratio / Gerardus Mercator
• Hondius on handwriting from Theatrum artis scribendi, introd. / Jodocus Hondius
• The French connection : Christopher Plantin, Pierre Hamon, Jacques de la Rue and Cl©♭ment Perret / A.S. Osley
• Handwriting : its tools and teaching from La premi©·re et la seconde partie des dialogues fran©ʹois pour les jeunes enfants, pt. II, dialogue 9 / Christopher Plantin
• John de Beauchesne and the first English writing-books / Berthold Wolpe
• (Cont.) Rules made by E.B. for his children to learne to write bye from A booke containing divers sortes of hands / John de Beauchesne
• Calygraphie from The writing schoolemaster / Peter Bales
• Rules and particular recommendations : of Marcello, known as Il Camerino, inventor of the new Roman chancery cursive script, as now commonly used, and introduced by him in Rome and other cities from Il secretario / Marcello Scalzini
• Cautionary advice of Cresci : against those who promise to teach a pupil to write perfectly in two or three months in most cases from Avertimenti / Giovan Francesco Cresci.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284) and index.

Local Notes:

Furness copy has dust jacket.

Other Format:

Online version: Scribes and sources.

ISBN:

• 0879232978
• 9780879232979

OCLC:

6150955