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Lo presente libro insegna la vera arte delo excelle[n]te scriuere de diuerse varie sorti de litere : lequali 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 · 1539 · Stampato in Vinegia : Per Giouanniantonio de Nicolini da Sabio · 42 pictures

A 1539 Venetian penmanship manual by Giovanni Antonio Tagliente, printed by Giovanni Antonio de Nicolini da Sabio, teaching writers to construct varied letterforms geometrically. Its pages show ornamental initial alphabets built from interlocking circles and grids, with blackletter capitals, decorated Roman letters, and a dark panel of white-line capitals. A designer might take from them the geometric construction of letters and the layered ornamental initials.

Penmanship · Alphabets

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