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Alphabetum romanum

Authors:Felice Feliciano, R. H. Boothroyd, Ameglio Trivella, Mario Facincani, Rino Grazioli, Giovanni Mardersteig, Officina Bodoni, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana Vat lat 6852

Print Book, Italian, [1960]

Edition:[English edition] View all formats and editions

Publisher: Officina Bodoni, Verona, [1960]

Genre:rare books

Physical Description:137 pages illustrations (some color), facsimiles 24 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:270792225

Subjects:

Alphabet Histoire

Alphabet History

Alphabets (Décoration)

Écriture Histoire

Manuscripts, Italian

Manuscripts, Italian Vatican City Facsimiles

Roman types (Type evidence)

Typefaces (Type evidence) Dante

Typefaces (Type evidence) Roman

Writing History

Notes:

"Translation of the Alphabetum and the receipes for colours": pages 125-133

"The twenty-five letters of the alphabet were coloured by hand by Ameglio Trivella after the original manuscript [Cod. Vat. Lat. 6852]". The ms. may be dated not later than 1460

Chap. IV, The recipes for colours. Praecepta ..

At head of title: Felice Feliciano veronese

"This English edition was set in Giovanni Mardersteig's Dante type and printed on his hand-press in four hundred numbered copies by Mario Facincani and Rino Grazioli. The paper was made by Fratelli Magnani, Pescia. The twenty-five letters of the alphabet were coloured by hand by Ameglio Trivella after the original manuscript"--Colophon

Pages [64]-[121] numbered Ir.-XVIIr., reproduce the Italian ms. (Vat. Lat. 6852) with hand-colored initial letters