Promtuarium variarum scripturarum
Subtitle: ex quo Latini, Itali, Galli, Hispani, Germani, Angli, Belgaequè, vernaculae suae scriptionis proprietatem et formationem depromere possunt
By: a Cornelio Theodori Boissenio Enchusano cùm universarum sculptore, tùm plaerarumq[ue] scriptore et inventore congestum
Contributors: Claesz, Cornelis approximately 1546-1609, printer; Kaart, Wilhem van, former owner
Publisher: Cornelius Nicolai excudebat
Published: 1594
Place of publication: Amsterdam]
Language: lat; dut; fre; ger; ita; spa
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Copybooks; Early works to 1800; Penmanship; Alphabets
Other titles: Promtvarivm variarum scripturarum; Promptuarium variarum scripturarum
Notes: Consists of an engraved calligraphic title page, 4 letterpress p. of commendatory poems and instructions in Dutch, and 50 engraved writing samples in various languages, all signed by Boissens.

Cornelis Claesz was active in Amsterdam.

One leaf is dated 1594.

Errors in foliation: 12, 18 misnumbered 13, 81 respectively.

Bonacini, C. Calligrafia, 233

Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung, 5006