Scribes and sources
Subtitle: handbook of the chancery hand in the sixteenth century : texts from the writing-masters
By: selected, introduced and translated by A. S. Osley ; with an account of John de Beauchesne by Berthold Wolpe.
Contributors: Osley, A. S.; Wolpe, Berthold.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 1980
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Penmanship.; Calligraphy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: The background; title: Humanists on handwriting: Erasmus and Vives; title: A nobleman of Ferrara: Sigismondo Fanti; title: "I, Giovannantonio Tagliente, employed by the most serene Republic of Venice..."; title: A Vatican scriptor: Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi; title: Giovambattista Palatino: the man about town; title: Two priests: Amphiareo and Augustino da Siena; title: A conservative revolutionary: Giovan Francesco Cresci; title: A successful partnership: Juan de Yciar with Juan de Vingles; title: A philosopher of handwriting: Pedro Madariaga; title: Francisco Lucas: creator of the Spanish bastarda; title: Juan de la Cuesta of Alcalá; title: Andres Brun and his coloured writing-sheets; title: Gerardus Mercator: calligrapher and cartographer; title: A man of many parts: Jodocus Hondius; title: The French connection: Christopher Plantin, Pierre Hamon, Jacques de la Rue, and Clément Perret; title: John de Beauchesne and the first English writing-books; title: Epilogue: the Cresci-Scalzini debate.