How to holde the handes.
LEt thy right hand, which leadeth the pen, stand or depende on the ende of thy Ring ••nd little fingers, rather than leane on the knoc∣kles thereof; lest the penne lie aside in such sort,
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.
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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.
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- Browne, David, fl. 1622-1638.
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- Sainct-Andrewes :: Printed by Edward Raban, printer to the Vniversitie,
- 1622. With priviledge.
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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 June 17, 2024.
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that it neyther touch the paper with both sid•• aye at ones (as it ought) nor yet haue sufficie•• passage for the Inke. And though there be litt•• congruence or correspōdence betwixt this ru•• and these foure patternes of an hand holding penne at the fore-ende of the sayd Thomas Trip•• his Booke, and others: yet who list to trie, w•• finde this no lesse woorthie of imitation a•• observation than anie of them.
Let not the left hand follow the motion o•• the right hand, but remaine still on the margin•• right forenenst whatsoever line thou writest and hold therin a Compasse, made for that use of such lēgth as the lines be, to the intent it ma•• reach to whatsoever part of the line where th•• penne goeth, for keeping of the paper straig•• downe, that it molest thee not while as tho•• writest. And for that effect, let the Compas•• bee somewhat extended foorth, the one poi•• thereof set aboue that line which thou shal happen to bee writing, and the other under th•• same: but in great Volumes, where there be¦long lines, the left hand must haue libertie •• follow the right, because the whole bodie wil•• bee eyther constrained so to doe, or else aye •• the ending of one line, to begin another.
Further, let aye thine handes bee cleane, le•• not onelie they hinder the Inke to goe thorow•• the penne, but so pollute the paper, that though (with difficultie) the same receiue writ, it haue
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manifolde blemishes and defectes, in steade of beautie and comlinesse.