Regola da imparare scrivere varii caratteri de littere con li svoi compassi et misvre
Subtitle: et Il modo di temperare le penne secondo la sorte de littere che uorrai scriuere
By: ordinato per Ludouico Vicentino ; con una recetta da far inchiostro fino, nuouame[n]te stampato
Publisher: Per Nicolo d'Aristotile detto Zoppino
Published: 1532
Place of publication: Stampato in Vinegia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Copybooks; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Other titles: Modo di temperare le penne; Operina
Notes: Imprint from colophon; printer's mark below colophon. (See Zappella, G. Le marche dei tipografi, 897.)

Signatures: A³⁰.

Verso of t.p.: Il modo & regola de scriuere littera corsive ouer Cancellarescha ... in Roma ... MDXXII.

"Il modo di temperare le penne": p. [34]-[60].

The two parts were first published separately as La operina (Rome 1522) and Modo di temperare le penne (Venice, 1523).

The plates are printed from the woodblocks used for the first separate printings, including the use of the earliest state of the "&accio che" block from the earlier editions; however, the order of imposition has changed (Cf. Barker, N., "Italian writing books 1522-39, An attempted chronology," in S. Morison's Early Italian writing books (1990), p. 191-92.)

Title within ornamental border.

The "recetta" mentioned in the title does not appear until the 1533 edition.

Cf. Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., 505.

Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 5.

Bonacini, C. Arte scrittorie, 1967.