Alphabetum Romanum
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The Alphabetum Romanum, by Felice Feliciano, published in 1463, is a text that covers how to create Roman square capital letters geometrically based on the subdivision of a square.
The codex, probably printed in Verona, is the first humanistic treatise on the construction of Roman capital letters. It contains a complete Roman alphabet, two letters on each sheet, below which the rules for their design are given. The final part includes a recipe for colors. The original is hand-colored with text both in Italian and Latin with an epigram by Paolo Ramusio published in 1463 in Volume Codex Vaticanus Latinus 6852.[1] The original is preserved in the Vatican Apostolic Library.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. "Vat. lat. 6852".
- ^ Morison, Stanley (2009). Selected Essays on the History of Letter-forms in Manuscript and Print. Cambridge University Press. p. 163. ISBN 9780521183161.
Further reading
[edit]- Felice Feliciano, Alphabetum Romanum. facs. ed. G. Mardersteig, Verona, 1960.
- Felice Feliciano, Alphabetum Romanum 1463. Volume Codex Vaticanus Latinus 6852 The Vatican Apostolic Library.
- On Alberti and the Art of Building, Robert Tavernor, Yale University Press London 1998
- Pacioli, Luca, De Divina Proporzione, Venice, 1509