Research Catalog

Title

The alphabet of Francesco Torniello da Novara (1517) Followed by a comparison with the alphabet of Fra Luca Pacioli. Intr. by Giovanni Mardersteig.

Author

Torniello, Franceso.

Publication

Verona [Officina Bodoni] 1971.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Mardersteig, Giovanni, 1892-1977.
• Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517.
• Mardersteig, Hans.
• Radice, Betty.

Description

xxviii, 104 p. illus. facsims.; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Editiones Officinae Bodoni

Subjects

• Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517
• Alphabet > Specimens

Note

• "Englishh version [on both introd. and text] by Betty Radice."
• "Opera del modo de fare le littere maiuscole antique, con mesura de circino, & reponse de penna, composita per Francisco Torniello da Novaria, scriptore professo": p. [3]-[56] English translation: p. [83]-104.

Bibliography (note)

• "Bibliography of the Italian constructions from 1460 to 1526": p. xxviii.

Call Number

*KP (Officina Bodoni) (Torniello da Novara, F. Alphabet of Francesco Torniello da Novara)

LCCN

76885850 //r853

OCLC

251943

Author

Torniello, Franceso.

Title

The alphabet of Francesco Torniello da Novara (1517) Followed by a comparison with the alphabet of Fra Luca Pacioli. Intr. by Giovanni Mardersteig.

Imprint

Verona [Officina Bodoni] 1971.

Series

Editiones Officinae Bodoni

Bibliography

"Bibliography of the Italian constructions from 1460 to 1526": p. xxviii.

Local Note

No. 144 of 160 copies "printed on the hand-press ... Officina Bodoni, Verona, January MCMLXXI."

With publisher's descriptive leaflet laid in.

Connect to:

Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

Added Author

Mardersteig, Giovanni, 1892-1977.

Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517.

Mardersteig, Hans.

Radice, Betty. Translator

Research Call Number

*KP (Officina Bodoni) (Torniello da Novara, F. Alphabet of Francesco Torniello da Novara)