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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Opera di frate Vespasiano Amphiareo da Ferrara dell'ordine minore conventvale
    sub title: nella quale si insegna a scrivere varie sorti di lettere, e massime vna lettera bastarda da lvi novamente con sva indvstria ritrovata, laqval serve al cancellaresco et mercantesco ; poi insegna a far l'inchiostro ... anchora a macinar l'oro et scriuere con esso ... parimente a scriuere con l'azuro, & col cinaprio
  title info:
    title: Opera nella quale s'insegna a scrivere varie sorti di lettere
  name:
    name part: Amphiareo, Vespasiano
    name part: 1501-1563
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Giolito de' Ferrari, Gabriele
    role:
      role term: printer.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Letterforms.
  genre: Early works.
  genre: Writing books-Italy-1554.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: it
    date issued: 1554
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: ita
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 96 unnumbered pages (page 96 unnumbered blank) ; 16 x 21 cm
  note: Title and subsequent pages enclosed in border.
  note: Signatures: *⁴A-E⁸F⁴.
  note: Originally published 1548 under title: Uno novo modo d'insegnar a scrivere et formar lettere di piu sorte.
  note: Purchased for the Cushing Library/Rare Books collection by the Cushing Library.
  note: After a brief prefatory exposition follow forty-three leaves with eighty-six plates of letterforms, ranging in style from the highly flourished to the starkly geometric, including a series of elaborate and exotically decorated capitals as well as simpler, geometrically designed miniscules and Roman capitals. The former category, observes Osley, comprises "a set of capitals derived from tree-trunks; another . . . of heavy gothic initials, hung with grotesque masks and providing a scaffolding on which naked cherubs, monkeys, storks and dogs engage in various activities; and a third [with] rather hairy letters in black strapwork." The examples are followed by instructions on how to prepare the pen as well as a recipe for ink. A Franciscan friar, Amphiareo taught lettering for thirty years, his calligraphy said to have been as esteemed in Venice as was Palatino's in Rome. The "Opera" was his only book. Plates on D6r to E5r hand-colored in red, purple, orange, blue, yellow, and green. Amphiareo's treatise on typography appeared in several editions over a short period, suggesting some commerical success and certainly artistic interest in his work. Bound in limp vellum, *3 and *4 bound in reverse."--Vendor's website, 12/9/20."
  note: Bonacini, C. Bibl. delle arti scrittorie 48
  note: Bongi, S. Gabriel Giolitto, I.436-437
  note: Johnson, A.F. Catalogue of Italian writing books, in: Signature, n.s. x (1950), p. 34-36
  note: Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 18
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
  subject:
    topic: Copybooks
    geographic: Italy
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Lettering
    geographic: Italy
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Copybooks
  subject:
    geographic: Italy
  subject:
    hierarchical geographic:
      country: Italy
      city: Venice
  classification: Z43.A3 V4 1554
  related item:
    note: Bonacini, C. Bibl. delle arti scrittorie 48
  related item:
    note: Bongi, S. Gabriel Giolitto, I.436-437
  related item:
    note: Johnson, A.F. Catalogue of Italian writing books, in: Signature, n.s. x (1950), p. 34-36
  related item:
    note: Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 18
  record info:
    record content source: HLS
    record creation date: 201209
    record change date: 20210422110558.0
    record identifier: in00004355984
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng