The new invention, intituled, calligraphia: or, the arte of faire writing vvherein is comprehended the whole necessarie rules thereof; by which anie who is capable and carefull to learne, may without the helpe of any other teacher, under God, both bee informed concerning the right writing of the most usuall characters in the world; and perfectly instructed how to write one of the most frequent in Europe, called the secretarie. ... By His Majesties scribe, Master David Browne.

Title

The new invention, intituled, calligraphia: or, the arte of faire writing vvherein is comprehended the whole necessarie rules thereof; by which anie who is capable and carefull to learne, may without the helpe of any other teacher, under God, both bee informed concerning the right writing of the most usuall characters in the world; and perfectly instructed how to write one of the most frequent in Europe, called the secretarie. ... By His Majesties scribe, Master David Browne.

Author

Browne, David, fl. 1622-1638.

Publication

Sainct-Andrewes :: Printed by Edward Raban, printer to the Vniversitie,

1622. With priviledge.

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Penmanship -- Early works to 1800.

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"The new invention, intituled, calligraphia: or, the arte of faire writing vvherein is comprehended the whole necessarie rules thereof; by which anie who is capable and carefull to learne, may without the helpe of any other teacher, under God, both bee informed concerning the right writing of the most usuall characters in the world; and perfectly instructed how to write one of the most frequent in Europe, called the secretarie. ... By His Majesties scribe, Master David Browne." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17027.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• The summe of the Authors Priviledge.
• TO THE MOST MIGH∣TIE, AND RENOWNED MONARCH, JAMES, By the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Fayth, Increase of prosperous Dayes here, & perpetuitie of fe∣licitie hereafter.
• TO THE DILIGENT READER, AND PRACTI∣ZER OF THIS BOOKE.
• TETRASTICHA.
  • SALOMON, ECCLESIASTES IX. X.
  • PIBRAC, QVADR. 68. PAG. 719.
  • IBID. QVAD. 63. PAG. 718.
  • CATO, Lib. 4. praecep. 29. But extended and applied unto Writing.
• ON THE BOOKE.
• IN THE PRAYSE OF WRITING.
• THE ARGVMENT, COMPREHENDING THE PREROGATIVES OF FAIRE WRITING.
  • For the which principall Causes then, (as well in the Epistle as here) and diverse secundarie, which doe fol∣low, I haue made choyse to publish this Arte.
• THE ELEMENTS AND CONTEMPLATIONS OF FAIRE VVRITING: Containing the Definitions, Ob∣servations, Probations, and Divisions of the Arte thereof: s also the Causes and Occasions of the Pra∣ctise of the same; and that in writing of the most usuall formes of Characters in the Worlde.
  • DEFINITIONS.
  • OBSERVATIONS.
  • PROBATIONS.
  • DIVISIONS. Serving likewise as an Index, by declaring on what Page eve∣ry Division beginneth.
  • SVB-DIVISIONS.
  • part
  • CAVSES.
  • OCCASIONS.
• THE GENE∣RALL PART OF THIS BOOKE.
  • Sect. I. Comprehending all the Rules of Preparation, concerning the meanes whereby to write the most usuall formes of Characters.
    • THE DISIVNCT MEANES FROM the Writer.
      • Concerning the Pen-knife.
      • The qualities and tokens of the best Pennes.
      • The manner how to forme the Penne.
      • The manner how to holde the penne.
      • How to governe or leade the penne.
      • What losse hapneth through want of Pennes.
      • Admonitions concerning the Penne.
      • The use of a Penne without Inke.
      • How to make common blacke Inke.
      • How to make fine blacke Inke.
      • The hinderance that proceedeth of the want and scantnesse of Inke.
      • Concerning the Pennar and Inke-horne.
      • Concerning the Paper.
      • Concerning the squaring of Paper.
    • THE CONIVNCT MEANES TO THE WRITER.
      • Concerning the gesture or behaviour of the head and eyes in the act of wryting.
      • Concerning the position of the bodie.
      • How to holde the armes.
      • How to holde the handes.
      • How to holde the thombe, and fingers.
  • THE GENERALL RVLES OF INFORMATION.
    • To follow an Exemplare.
    • The puritie and exactnesse requisite in fayre Writ.
    • How to place Capitall letters in fayre Writ.
    • An admonition.
    • How to write evenlie, without Square.
    • With what expedition to write.
    • Such Exemplares as bee best, and meetest to resemble.
    • The distance requisite in Faire Writing.
    • The good Order, or Neighbourhood, re∣quisite in fayre writing.
    • The nearest remedie how to bring irregulare Lines in order againe.
    • In what boundes to comprehende fayre Writ.
    • Encouragement against wearinesse in writing.
    • How to extract anie matter attentiuelie.
    • NOTA.
    • ALIA.
• THE SPECIALL PART OF THIS BOOKE: Containing the particular Rules of Information, and all the Rules of Perfection, how to write the most usuall Characters; but chiefelie the SECRETARIE, which is set downe heere, both for it selfe, and in place of all the rest.
  • THE PREFACE.
• THE PARTICVLAR RVLES OF INFOR∣MATION.
  • Sect. I. CONCERNING LETTERS.
    • The Preambles, and Introduction, to Letters.
    • The number and forme, of the most necessarie and usuall Letters, belonging to the Se∣cretarie Character.
    • The Variations, or Degressions, of all the variable or degredibl Letters of this Character, from their originall proportion.
      • NOTA.
    • The Divisions, or Denominations, of all the Letters of the Alphabet, declaring the severall sorts thereof by their names.
    • The Comparations, or Descriptions, of Single and Double Letters conjunctlie, demonstrating and making each one equall with another of the owne kinde: and that by describing how many haue bodies, heads, and tayles; and how manie want them.
    • The Comparations, or Descriptions, of Double Let∣ters severallie: shewing how they are made Double, and united.
• THE ENTRIE WHICH LEA∣DETH TO PERFECTION, IN THE ARTE OF Fayre VVriting Made open; and the Keyes there∣of delivered.
• THE TRANSITION, OR THROVGH-GOING, Which leadeth to Perfection, in the Arte of Fayre Writing, made patent: Declaring the Gradation how, Meanes whereby, and Space howe soone it may bee attaine unto.
• THE ABRIDGEMENT OR BREVIARIE OF THE Arte of Fayre VVriting.
  • The Prologue.
• A PEDAGOGICALL ADMO∣NITION, OF THAT WISE and learned Clerke, William Lillte, unto his Disciples.
• The use of this Copie.
• TEN COMPENDIOVS PRECEPTES, Directing hovv to match the COPIE afore-written.
  • LIMITATION OF CAPITALS.
  • DIMISSION OF SQVARE.
  • EXPEDITION.
  • PROPORTION.
  • QVANTITIE.
  • SITVATION.
  • CONIVNCTION.
  • DISTANCE.
  • DIFFERENCE.
  • COMPREHENSION.
  • The Epilogue, or Closing up of the Pat∣terne, and Precepts.
• AN ORATION, BEFORE THE BRIEFE ALPHABET.
• THE CONIVGATIONS, AND FORMATIONS OF ALL THE Letters of this briefe Alphabet: Set downe both for themselues, and for all other Letters of this kinde, whether in the great Al∣phabet, or else where;
• AN NARRATION, Demonstrating so manie stroakes as may serue in the casting of each Single and Double Letter of the great Alpha∣bet, vvithout taking up of the Penne from the Paper, Except Inke fayle therein, before the Letter be completed.
• THE RVLES OF PERFECTION, IN Faire Writing: Concerning the right Pro∣portioning, Measuring, and si∣tuating, of Single and Inseparable Double Letters; as also the conjoyning thereof within wordes, as they occurre, which chiefelie consisteth in seldome lifting of the Penne, while as they be written.
  • NOTA.
• THE CONSTRVCTIONS Of Faire VVriting: Or right contriving, setting, and ordering of Letters in Fayre Writ: Begin∣ning first heere, at the placing of Letters rightlie in Syllables; and then proceeding from Syllables to Wordes, and last, from Wordes to Sentences.
  • SECT. II. CONCERNING SYLLABLES.
    • ANNOTATION.
  • SECT. III. Concerning Wordes.
  • SECT. IV. Concerning Sentences, or Lines.
    • NOTA.
• THE CONCLVSION, Somevvhat concerning Puncts, and Accentes; as also Abreviations, and of the Effayres, and Writs, wherein they are most used.
• AN ABSTRACT OF THE OBIECTIONS AND EXCEPTIONS, WHICH WERE PROPONED BY CERTAINE of the Learned, (to hinder the Ac∣complishment and Publication of this preceeding Worke) ANSWERED BY THE AVTHOR.
  • I.
  • II.
  • III.
  • IV.
  • V.
  • VI.
  • VII.
  • VIII.
  • IX.
  • X.
  • XI.
  • XII.
• ADMONITIONS, TO ALL PROFESSOVRS OF THE Arte of Faire Writing.
• poem
• THE PRINTER TO THE READER, AND BVYER of this Booke.
• colophon