Thesavro de scrittori
Subtitle: opera artificiosa, laquale con grandissima arte, si per pratica come per geometria, insegna a scriuere diuerse sorte littere, cioe cancellerescha, merchantescha, formata, cursiua, antiqua, moderna et bastarda, de piu sorte : cum uiarij e bellissimi exempli & altre sorte littere de uarie lingue, cioe grecha, hebraicha, caldea & arabicha : tutte extratte da diuersi et probatissimi auttori, & massimamente da lo praeclarissimo Sigismvndo Fanto, nobile ferrarese, mathematico et architettore eruditissimo, dele mesure e ragione de littere primo inuentore
By: intagliata per Ugo da Carpi ...
Contributors: Fanti, Sigismondo; Tagliente, Giovanni Antonio; Arrighi, Ludovico degli; Modena, Angelo da
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1532
Place of publication: Venice
Language: ita
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Alphabets; Early works to 1800; Calligraphy; Penmanship
Other titles: Thesauro de scrittori :
Notes: First published Rome, 1525. Comprises calligraphic specimens and instructional text copied from Tagliente and Arrighi. See A.S. Osley, Luminario, p. 41.

The first 24 of the 48 leaves are signed A1-A24.

Added t.p. on A3r with date 1532.

Twenty p. printed letterpress, the remainder from woodcut blocks. Full-page ill. on A1v depicts writing implements. Initials, some historiated. Arithmetical tables, p. [41-48], with notice at end: Angelus Mutinen. composuit.

Bonacini, C.  Arti scrittorie, 1816

Sander 7169

Binding: maroon goatskin, signed by Lortic fils. Arms in gilt on both boards of Victor Masséna, prince d'Essling (1836-1910). The present title is no. 2187 in his Livres à figures vénitiens, where it is noted that the copy described is from his library. Author, title and date in gilt on spine, together with four monograms VM. Edges of boards & turn-ins tooled in gilt, page edges gilt, striped silk place marker.