La operina di Ludouico Vicentino
Subtitle: da imparare di scriuere littera cancellarescha : con molte altre noue littere agiunte, et una bellissima Ragione di abbacho molto necessario à chi impara à scriuere, e fare conto Vgo. scr. [i.e. Ugo da Carpi scrisse]
Publisher: Per inuentione no [sic] di Ludouico Vicentino,resvrrexit Vgo da Carpi
Published: 1525
Place of publication: Stampata in Roma
Language: ita
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Penmanship; Early works to 1800; Lettering
Other titles: Operina
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: [A]-D⁴[E]⁴.

Title and text printed from woodblocks, cut by Ugo da Carpi; new blocks were cut for this second edition, with the four leaves of the Abbacho by Angelus Mutinensis added at the end, and a letterpress privilege at front.

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

Johnson, A.F. Catalogue of Italian writing-books, in Signature, n.s. 10 (1950), p. 24-25

Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 3.

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Bequest of Philip Hofer, 1984.

Imperfect: four leaves at end (Abbacho) wanting.

Bookplate of Giacomo Manzoni; ms. inscription of C.L.Ricketts.

Bound in modern vellum; in prefab case, 27 cm.