Les oevvres
Subtitle: ou, lon comprendra facilement la maniere de bien et proprement escrire toutr' sortr' de lettre italienne selon l'vsag' de ce siecle ...
Contributors: Roux, P.; Nostredame, César de, 1553-1629; Greuter, Mathieu, 1564?-1638; Rosset, François de, approximately 1570-approximately 1630
Publisher: Par I. Bramerav...
Published: 1608
Place of publication: En Avignon
Language: fre
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Calligraphy; Penmanship
Other titles: Ouuvres, ou, lon comprendra facilement la maniere de bien et proprement escrire; Lon comprendra facilement la maniere de bien et proprement escrire toute sorte de lettre italienne selon l'usage de ce siecle
Notes: Imprint from p. 4.

Added engraved t.p. (leaf [2]): La lettre italienne de Lucas Materot gravée par Mathiev Greuter.

Engraved title and dedication, both calligraphically written; portrait engraved by C. Nostradamus; 45 plates of calligraphy specimina by Lucas Materot, engraved by P. Roux and Mathieu Greuter; some leaves are dated 1604.

The first four letterpress pages are poems in praise of Materot by François de Rosset and others; the second four are "Brief discovrs svr les choses plvs necessaires qv'il faut entendre et observer povr parvenir a la vraye intelligence de la lettre italienne, avec la methode qu'vn maistre doibt tenir pour la bien enseigner à ses disciples".

"Est sua cuique sibi virtus pulcherrima merces."

Bonacini, C.  Arti scrittorie,c1138

Becker, D.P.  Practice of letters,c76

In French with the anagram also in Latin.