Libellvs vallde doctvs elegans, & utilis, multa et uaria scribendarum literarum genera complectens
Publisher: Impressa per Christophorum Froschouerum
Published: 1570
Place of publication: Zurich
Language: lat
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Copybooks; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Other titles: Libellus valde doctus, elegans, & utlilis
Notes: Imprint from A2r.

Consists of woodcut title and samples, with a letterpress dedication and instructions. Includes two illustrations, one of a teacher with students and another of a writing master at his desk.

A new edition of Wyss' 1549 model book, reduced in format; the woodcuts are the same as those used in the 1561 edition, with the addition of decorative borders; the last cut has been cropped so that it no longer bears the colophon of the first edition.

Woodcut title printed in red with black decorative border.

Signatures: A-O⁴ P²

See Doede, W. Deutsche schreibmeisterbücher, 14.

Bonacini, C. Arte scrittorie, 2072.

Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 54.