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Palatino's: Libro nuovo d’imparare a scrivere... 1545

I found my way to the Library of Congress from Chicago after a few adventures on the road, but I'm going to leave those stories for another post. The Rare Books & Manuscripts division is in the Jefferson Bldg. They have a few nice books there & I

Hidden Books @ University of Iowa's Special Collections Department

I visited the University of Iowa's Special Collections library on Tuesday and Wednesday for a couple of hours. While I didn't know what I would find, I was hoping there'd be something. The director, Greg Prickman took a few minutes out of his busy

Finding Libraries with Writing Manuals

What is a Writing Manual? Writing manuals teach a student how to form letters and write a particular style of writing or hand. Often, a writing manual discussed ink recipes, paper selection, how to cut a quill into a pen and how to hold it. They came into widespread use

Motoscribendi: Libraries, Historic Calligraphy Manuals, Book People and Motorcycles

Motoscribendi My name is Nicholas Yeager, I'm a scholar, librarian, motorcyclist and scribe. You know what the first three are, but what's a scribe? Every time you write something with a pen, you are inscribing the paper (or other substrate) with your handwriting. A scribe may