Incipit liber primus[-quartus] Elementorum litterarum
By: Ioannis Baptiste· de Verinis Florentini ; nouiter impressus
Contributors: Paganino, Alessandro, printer; Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner
Publisher: Alessandro Paganino
Published: 1526
Place of publication: Toscalano
Language: ita
Subjects: Lettering; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Other titles: Incipit liber primvs; Elementorum litterarum; Luminario
Notes: Title page in Latin, text in Italian.

Imprint and date of publication from BM STC Italian and NUC pre-1956. Brunet posits a date of 1527 in Florence. The date 1526 appears within handwriting samples on the versos of leaves LII, LVIII, and LXI.

Running title: Lvminario libro primo[-qvarto].

Signatures: A-Q́þ (O-Q́þ unsigned)

Foliation: [I]-LXIIII.

L4 signed L2; N1 not signed; N2 signed N.

"Con gratia et privilegio per anni .x."--title page.

Each part has a special title page within a woodcut border.

Brunet, V, col. 1138

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 721

NUC pre-1956 NV0109136

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in a leaf of early vellum manuscript waste. An early inscription is present on the front free endpaper. A large, calligraphic letter V, copied in an early hand from the printed example next to it, is present on leaf LXII. The bookplate of Joseph Martini (Giuseppe Martini) is present on the verso of the front cover. This item is housed in a green cloth box.