Lanotomia delle cancellaresche corsiue, & altre maniere di lettere
By: di Lodovico Cvrione ; con la quale senza la presenza del maestro si può peruenire a una uera intelligenza de quest'arte ; libro secondo
Contributors: Buyten, Martin van, active 1588-1613
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1588
Place of publication: Romae
Language: ita
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Alphabets; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Other titles: Anotomia delle cancellaresche corsiue, & altre maniere di lettere; Anatomia delle cancellaresche corsive, & altre maniere di lettere
Notes: The order in which Curione's four writing books were published does not corresond to their numbering. Del modo di scrivere le cancellaresche corsive ("libro primo") appeared in 1590, Il teatro delle cancellaresche corsive ("libro terzo") in 1593, Il cancelliere ("libro quarto") in 1582. See Bonacini.

Engraved throughout by Martin van Buyten. Forty-five numbered plates present chancery hand, including "lettera corsiva" variant, and "Lettre que escriuent les dames de France" (plate 43). Two unnumbered plates at the end with roman letters.

Bonacini, C.  Arti scrittorie, 441

Getty copy lacks the 8th line of the title ("Imparione alla insegna del martello") as given in Bonacini, where it is reported to be lacking also in the Metropolitan Museum copy. In Getty copy the title leaf is followed by an extra unnumbered leaf, a variant of the "Regola prima" given on numbered leaf 1. A 2nd extra unnumbered leaf appears after leaf 44; it is a specimen salutation addressed to Francesco Joppa. Leaf 45 is bound in after the first of the two unnumbered leaves devoted to roman letters.

Binding: 20th-century yellow paper, sprinkled green. Half vellum. Author, title & date written on spine.