The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman. By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.

Title

The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman. By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.

Author

Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?

Publication

[London] :: Anno 1622 Imprinted at London [by John Legat] for Francis Constable, and are to bee sold at his shop at the white lio[n] in Paules churchyard,

[1622]

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Subject terms

Education -- Early works to 1800.

Courtesy -- Early works to 1800.

Heraldry -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• The Compleat Gentleman, whose Titles are contained in these Chapters following.
• Ad optimae spei, generosissimae{que} in∣dolis adolescentem, D. Gulielmum Howard, illustriss. ac vere honoratiss. Thomae Comitis Arundeliae, sum∣mi totius Angliae Mares∣challi, &c. filium tertio∣genitum.
• TO THE TRVLY NO∣BLE AND MOST HOPE∣FVLL MR. WILLIAM HOVVARD, third and youngest Sonne to the Right Ho∣norable THOMAS Earle of Arundell and Surrey, Earle Marshall of England, &c.
• To my Reader.
• CHAP. I.
• CHAP. 2.
• CHAP. 3.
• CHAP. 4.
• CHAP. 5.
• CHAP. 6.
• CHAP. 7.
• CHAP. 8.
• CHAP. 9.
• CHAP. 10.
• CHAP. XI.
• CHAP. 12.
  • For Ruffes, Lawnes, and Linnen.
  • For Veluets of all colours.
  • For Sattens in Oyle Colours.
  • For Taffata's.
  • For Cloth.
  • For Lther.
  • To expresse Gold and Siluer.
  • For Skie and Landscape.
  • Of Wood colours, Barkes of Trees, &c.
  • Of sundry Greenes in Oyle.
  • Ioannes Cimabus.
  • Andrea Taffi.
  • Gaddo Gaddi.
  • Margaritene.
  • Giotto.
  • Stephano Fiorentino.
  • Petro Laurati of Siena.
  • Bnamic Buffalmacco.
  • Ambrosio Lorenzetti of Siena.
  • Petro Cavallini of Rome.
  • Simon of Siena.
  • Andreas Orgagna.
  • Thomas Masaccio.
  • Leon Baptista Alberti.
  • Frier Phillipo Lippi.
  • Antonello de Messino.
  • Dominico irlandaio.
  • Raphaell D'Vrbine.
• CHAP. 13.
  • Of Difference by the Labell.
  • Of Difference by the Bend.
  • Of the Spanish Nobilitie these Authors haue written.
  • Of Italy, Sicily, Naples, &c.
  • Of France.
  • Of Germany, or the Empire.
  • The practise of Blazonrie.
• CHAP. 14.
• CAP. 15.
• CHAP. 16.