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Gagliardelli, Soprascritte di lettere in forma cancellaria, Florence 1583, calligraphy as indication of status

Giovanni Batista Palatino, Libro... Nel Qual S'Insegna a Scriuere ogni Sorte Lettera , woodcut plate, Blado, Rome 1547

Giovanni Batista Palatino, Libro Nuovo, woodcut Rome 1544

Lodovico Curione, L'Anatomia delle cancellar , 1588

 a writing piece by Mathew Buchinger, legless, armless German calligrapher 1732

 

 

TOP ROW

01. French calligraphy from the scriptorium, a page from a Dominican Service Book c1260 - 1275

02a typical page by the great English Writing Master, Peter Bales, who had come to London in 1590, to start his own business teaching handwriting. He published his book, The Writing Schoolmaster in that year. He was celebrated for his extraordinary ability to write in a minute/tiny hand.

03.from Andrade de Figuiero, Nova Escola para aprender a ler, escrever, e contar , Lisbon 1722.

04.from Andrade de Figuiero, Alfabeto di Lettere Iniziali Adorno di Animali... ,, Florence 1797

05.from Jodocus Hondius, Theatrum Artis Scribendi ,Amsterdam 1614

 

BOTTOM ROW

01.from Edward Hatton, The Merchant's Magazine , London 1695, and one of nine specimens of the author's calligraphic representation of mercantile truths and techniques.

02.from Johann Merken. Liber artificiosus alphabeti maioris ,Mulheim, 1782-5, elaborate flourished alphabets and, here, a scene of an artist making a silhouette of a client's profile, a scene later copied by Lavater for his volumes on Physiognomy

03.Louis Barbedor, the French master of Calligraphy, page from Examples D'Escriture , c1657.

04.from Giovanni Batista Palatino, Libro... Nel Qual S'Insegna a Scriuere ogni Sorte Lettera , woodcut plate, Blado, Rome 1547