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Book reviews A. S. Osley, Luminario. An introductiorn to the Italian writing-books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Nieuwkoop, Miland Publishers, 1972, f°, xiii, 173 pp., incl. 116 illus., ISBN 9060042956, fl. 180,-. That the often widely differing methods of teaching writing in primary schools in Western Europe today have led to a great diversity of styles in use, will come as no surprise to those readers who keep up an internationally oriented handwritten correspondence on any significant scale - though such, it might be added, are coming more and more to belong to the happy few. However, although there are clearcut regional and national differences - one can still often determine a writer's country of origin on the basis of his handwriting, quite apart from any linguistic aspects - there is no doubt that something in the nature of a 'parent model' must have formed the basis of these variants. The scientific investigation of the history of this 'parent model', i.e. its development into our present-day forms of script, is still largely incomplete, and in fact only really got under way a decade or two ago. Large areas remain unexplored, but one of the subjects to have
Quaerendo – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1973
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