Lot n° 106
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AMPHIAREO (Vespasiano). - Lot 106
AMPHIAREO (Vespasiano).
Opera di frate Vespasiano Amphiareo da Ferrara dell'ordine minore conventuale. [Work of Brother Vespasiano Amphiareo of Ferrara of the minor conventual order.]
Nella quale s'insegna a scrivere varie sorti di lettere, & massime una lettera bastarda da lui nuouamente con sua industria ritrouata, la quale serue al Cancellaresco, & Mercantesco. Poi insegna a far l'inchiostro negrissimo con tanta facilità, che ciascuno per semplice che sia, lo saprà far da se. Anchora a macinar l'oro, & scriuere con esso come si farà con l'inchiostro : parimente a scriuere con l'azurro, & col cenaprio : opera ultissima, e molto necessaria all'uso humano. Aggiuntovi di nuovo due bellissimi alphabeti di maiuscole, che nell'altre impressioni non si sono piu stampati. Con privilegio. [In which one learns to write various kinds of letters, and especially a bastard letter found by him with his industry, which serves the Cancellaresco, & Mercantesco. Then he teaches how to make black ink with such ease, that everyone, however simple, will be able to do it himself. He also teaches how to grind gold, and write with it as one would with ink: in the same way to write with azure, and with cinnabar: the last work, and very necessary for human use. [Are] Added again two beautiful alphabets of capital letters, which in the other impressions were not printed. With privilege]. [Without address]. In Venetia. [In Venice]. 1572. In-12 oblong (15 x 20,6 cm). Title with woodcut vignette, (92) pp : brown speckled basane, five-ribbed spine decorated, gilt lace on the edges (17th century binding).
Precious treatise on the art of writing by the Franciscan religious and calligrapher from Ferrara, Vespasiano Amphiareo (1501-1563).
The work begins on the use of blue, gold and cinnabar for the realization of inks. Follows pages in the bastard typography of his invention and whose texts are framed, for the majority of the pages, of alphabets. Pages of letter ornaments, precede the double pages of alphabets in different typographies where the large initials are only two per page, all engraved on wood in frames.
Very ornate alphabets and two last alphabets [added in this edition, as mentioned on the title page] with extreme geometric graphic modernity.
First edition, different, in Venice in 1548.
A collection of the greatest rarity.
An alphabet of eight leaves has been removed [D 6 to E 5]. Barely visible restoration on the cuts. Title-piece, on the spine, missing.
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