El maestro de escrivir
Subtitle: la theorica, y la practica para aprender, y para enseñar este vtilissimo arte : con otros dos artes nuevos, vno para saber formar rasgos, otro para inventar innumerables formas de letras
By: que ofrece a la muy ilustre, noble, y leal ciudad de Cadiz, el hermano Lorenzo Ortiz, de la Compañia de Iesus
Publisher: Presso Paolo Baglioni
Published: 1696
Place of publication: Venecia
Language: spa
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Copybooks; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Other titles: Arte nuevo muy curioso para saber inventar innumerables formas de letras diferentes.; Examen.
Notes: Text written in dialogue form.

Signatures (letterpress): [par.]⁶ A² B-M⁴ ²[par.]⁶.

Title within border of type ornaments.

[32] leaves consist of 32 full-page writing samples, some signed by Ortiz; a few are dated 1695 or 1696. The samples are engraved by Gregorio Fosmán y Medina. Cf. p. 61.

Extant copies vary widely in the number of engraved leaves present, from 16 (cf. Palau y Dulcet and Toda y Güell) to 36 (cf. Bonacini). Cotarelo y Mori and Backer-Sommervogel call for 32 engraved leaves.

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Bonacini, C. Arti scrittorie, 2078.

Cotarelo y Mori, E. Calígrafos españoles, I, p. 363-365.

Toda y Güell, E. Bibliografia espanyola d'Italia, III, 3644.

Backer-Sommervogel, V, col. 1965.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 205690.

Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 72.

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Table of contents: title: El maestro de escrivir (p. 1-88); title: Arte nuevo muy curioso para saber inventar innumerables formas de letras diferentes (p. 89-91); title: El examen (p. 1-11 (3rd count)).