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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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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Subject terms: Penmanship -- Early works to 1800.
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The good Order, or Neighbourhood, re∣quisite in fayre writing.

IN the selfe same writs, let neyther the head nor tayle of anie letter of one line, doe harme to the bodie, head, nor tayle of anie letter of another line; nor yet within the boundes where they stand, in what soever line: but let each one bee conveyed, some other way, from another, and kept (so farre as is possible) within its owne marches and boundes: which bee knowne by the high sort of heads, being measured enlongs aboue the high square; and low sort of tayles, alonges under the low square: which bee the indifferent sort of both, as, God willing, shall be declared particulardlie hereafter in the owne place.