{"id":957,"date":"2008-09-09T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2008-09-09T20:09:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T04:09:54","slug":"spanish-renaissance-calligraphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/art-and-illustration\/typography\/spanish-renaissance-calligraphy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spanish Renaissance calligraphy manual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Arte Subtilissima, por la Qual se Ense\u00f1a a Escreuir Perfectamente (The most delicate art of teaching a perfect hand), 1550 by Juan de Ic\u00edar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-08\/iciar.jpg\" alt=\"Arte Subtilissima, por la Qual se Ense\u00f1a a Escreuir Perfectamente' (The most delicate art of teaching a perfect hand), 1550 by Juan de Ic\u00edar\" width=\"435\" height=\"623\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The resourceful peacay at <a title=\"bibliodyssey\" href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/most-delicate-art.html\" target=\"_blank\">BibliOdyssey<\/a>, who seems to spend most of his waking hours rummaging through the online archives of libraries and museums searching for scans from old books, has found another gem in <em>Arte Subtilissima, por la Qual se Ense\u00f1a a Escreuir Perfectamente <\/em>(The most delicate art of teaching a perfect hand), 1550, by Juan de Ic\u00edar (Juan de Yciar) with engravings by Jean de Vingles.<\/p>\n<p>Iciar&#8217;s <em>Arte Subtilissima, <\/em>peacay observes, introduced the chancery script (<em>cancelleresca corsiva<\/em>) to Spain &#8220;and although it is described as a copybook, it is more intended as a manual for an engraver rather than the hand scribe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>More illustrations from the manual <a title=\"bibliodyssey\" href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/most-delicate-art.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resourceful peacay at BibliOdyssey, who seems to spend most of his waking hours rummaging through the online archives of libraries and museums searching for scans from old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}