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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17027	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.	Browne, David, fl. 1622-1638.	1622 (1622)	STC 3905; ESTC S105906	110,703	284

in the Graue PIBRAC QVADR 68. PAG. 719. ● learne the most needfull Arte bende thine affection ●ther than seeke all and get nothing well ●iue chiefelie in thine owne to attaine Perfection ● it is no small honour to excell IBID. QVAD 63. PAG. 718. ●w manie might in time haue wise beene made ●fore their time had they not thought them so ●at Artist e're was Master of his Trade ●e hee began his Prentiship to know CATO Lib. 4. praecep 29. But extended and applied unto Writing ●ensoever to learne is no shame to anie ● ignorance both shame and Skaith to manie ●d though in a yeare thou canst little Latine attaine ● in one day thou mayst learne to write thy Name ON THE BOOKE WHerefore O SCOTLAND art thou called so 〈◊〉 Since in Thee such aboundance of Vertues breede All sortes of Policie rare and singular Men And having such plentie wherewith thine owne to 〈◊〉 Nations haue at thine high Cedars admired Such as Wallace Buchanan and manie one n●● Some for Valiantnesse some for Learning revered And manie other Giftes which some haue yet also With whom why may not this worthie One be 〈◊〉 Whose charitable Travels heere are worthie of prayse For hath bee not all before him farre surmounted In this most renown'd and profitable exercise By which he honoreth his Coūtrey Friēds N●● Beside the winning to himselfe of endlesse Fa●e D. A. IN THE PRAYSE OF WRITING REjoyce all Writers who liue by the Penne For your Arte with Royaltie is clad The honour whereof lay hidde amongst Men But now is universallie spread ●ejoyce all Engravers and Yee that Found Types for Letters of Writ and Print ●ince the Spring of your Cisterne doth abound And now runneth ou'r the olde extent Rejoyce all PRINTERS whose Calling depends On Writing that most auncient Arte For it your chiefe from whence yours descendes Is promoted in everie parte Rejoyce all Learners who may when yee list Learne all times by this magnifique Worke. And All giue GOD prayse who doth so assist This your Patron that excellent Clerke I. S. THE ARGVMENT COMPREHENDING THE PREROGATIVES OF FAIRE WRITING ALthough this Subject may seeme base not being great matters but BARE LETTERS yet it is worthie of great promotion both because it maintaineth al other Subjects as shall bee declared GOD willing heereafter and that the right performance of the action thereof called WRITING is an Arte as Honourable Needefull Profitable Rare Auncient Noblie descended and consequentlie as Excellent as anie other which I prooue by forcible Reasons It is Honourable for two of the most chief the one grounded upon the rare practises of the most blessed great and rare PATRON because it not onelie pleased Him to honour it in writing of the Tables of the Lawe with His owne Sacred Hand spoken so for our capacitie But His Blessed Sonne our onelie Saviour bowed Himselfe in the Temple of Hierusalem and wrote on the ground The other Reason taken from the practises of Man for is there anie King or Monarch in the World who applieth not himselfe to learne this Arte although he should neglect and forgoe all others Needfull for other two Reasons the first Tending to our Eternall happinesse for it was inevitable and necessarie that the Worde of the LORD should bee written that it might endure for ever And though the use both of Writing and of all that is written will expire at the Day of Iudgement yet the same verie Worde which now is written will endure eternallie because it is eternall as both Hee is Eternall from whome it proceedeth as the Author and Hee who is not onlie the Subject thereof but the verie WORD it selfe Who by it will pronounce the Sentences both of Absolution and condemnation at that Great Day and rathere ere Hee suffer one jot or Letter thereof to be voyde or remaine unaccomplished Heaven and Earth will passe away And the second reason tending to the weale of our temporall estate because without the use of Writing and Letters written no Estate in the World could stand seeing it not onlie keepeth constant memorie of Promises Rightes and Dueties betwixt man and man from Generation to Generation but likewise goeth in Ambassage from Nation to Nation in all effaires expressing mens Mindes whose persons bee absent as if they were present Indeede without the use of Printing the Estates of the Worlde might stand like as they did more than 5400. yeares for it is not aboue 200. yeares yet since it began to flowrish and so there is not so great necessitie in the use of Printing as of Writing for Writing must needes be or else there could be litle Civile order but each one circumvene and spoyle his Neighbour without remedie of Iustice Profitable for two respectes also first because universallie as manie liue by the practise thereof in good estate as by the practise of anie other Arte and next because Printing could scarcelie ever haue beene if Writing had not beene first for Printing was not onelie first devised by the occasion of sweirnesse in writing and in-holding of maintenance to Writers but likewise the first patterne of printing Characters was made conforme to written Letters yea Printing could scarcelie yet continue if it were not up-holden and maintained by Writing for what Booke was ever or can bee yet so well and easilie printed as that which was and is first written whereby it is certaine that Printing is as inferiour as it is posterior unto Writing and that for three causes first because upon everie occasion the mindes of men may bee farre better signified unto others in sheduls and their promises performed or at least urged to performe in securities by the meane of Writing than of Printing seeing the one serveth in doing preserving and multiplying of anie thing while it is in doing and the other but to preserue and multiplie extractes of a thing alreadie done Secondlie because Writing is practised by manie not onelie because it is necessarie to all but both because it is easie of it selfe and the meanes thereof easilie carried whereas Printing is onelie practised by fewe since it is neyther needfull for everie one easie to practise nor the meanes wherewith easie to transporte yea though even made in the moste rare and compendious manner And thirdlie were not by occasion of the worthie exercise of VVriting as I haue sayde howe could there ever haue beene anie such preservation of Learning by Printing anie such manifestation thereof by multiplying of Bookes printed and by consequent ever anie such immortalitie and universalitie of fame purchased eyther through Learning or valiant deedes by mortall men as now there bee of some renowned in all Ages past for a mortall fame that is an unwritten fame may well surviue him unto whom it belongeth and continue the next generation after but is rarelie found in the second except of some rare person so then if the famous remēberance of renowned men had aye died when themselues died through defect of

credite keeped eyther amongst strangers or neighbours yea scarcelie amongst friendes in respect of the infidelitie and incredulitie which daylie increaseth so much the greater by howe much the consummation of this great and universall Fabricke approacheth ●earer OCCASIONS LAst the OCCASIONS of Writing are two-folde The particular Effayres of the Writer and employments of others The motiues which mooue the Writer bee likewise two-folde Externall and Internall The one is when hee writeth concerning his owne businesse immediatelie for some publicke respectes as when a Creditor persueth a Debter before an ordinary Iudge The other is when hee is mooved by some motiue as yet privie unto himselfe as when it pleaseth GOD to stirre up anie to bee Author of some needefull preceptes woorthie to bee put in practise and the same not as yet manifested And the Employmentes of others whether they bee the Writers Superiours Inferioures or equals all of them as his Clientes in a manner doe employ him to write concerning their negotiations mediatelie and conditionallie eyther for favour thankes or recompence Thus much concerning the ELEMENTS and CONTEMPLATIONS of FAIRE WRITING and although some of them may seeme coincident and ambiguous yet if so be I may bee the better excused since a Sojournour hath no great shame to goe a little astray in an unknowne and unpathed way wherein fewe before him haue walked alwayes for methode and orders cause I could not well omit them notwithstanding mine intention bee rather to insist in the externall forme and beautie of Letters for the eye as moste pertinent to the practise of the Arte than to enter over deepelie into anie acurate description of their internall properties for the minde because that is more proper unto a Science Now for as much as I haue not onelie declared what kinde of Worke this is the use thereof the causes mooving mee to builde it mesured and layde the foundation thereof and given a name thereunto but haue shewed likewise the causes whereof it proceedeth the occasions of the proceeding considered of the height deepnesse length and bredth of the same before it was founded and not onelie prepared all necessarie materials for uppe-going thereof but provided all necessarie Furniture to be so affixed therein as both building plenishing to remaine one and the same It followeth then in the next rowme that it bee completed which GOD bee praysed doeth arise to a great height in the Generall parte of this Booke and almoste in substance though not in stile is covered with the Crowne of Perfection in the Speciall albeit some of the Rules of eyther parte be affirmatiue some negatiue some partlie both for explications cause yet they must not be rāked according to the methode of the Rule it selfe but rather keepe such place and comelie ordour even as is requisite for the nature of the Subject And so immediately they begin THE GENERALL PART OF THIS BOOKE Sect. I. Comprehending all the Rules of Preparation concerning the meanes whereby to write the most usuall formes of Characters THE DISIVNCT MEANES FROM the Writer Concerning the Pen-knife LET the Pen-knife bee of a span in length two partes thereof being Haft and the third part Blade the haft either square or round and somewhat decreasing small unto the end for the slitting up of the clift of the Pen. And let the Blade be made cleanlie sharpe and so kept by the meanes of whetting alwayes for its owne use The qualities and tokens of the best Pennes CHoose Raven and Goose Pennes for anie writ upon Paper and small writ upon Parchment and Swan or Briszell pennes for great writ upon parchment Take few of either sort but such as be somewhat straight of staulke long and great of pipe round and hard through out but chiefelie at the highest part therof next the staulke And if the Goose pennes haue whole feathers on them the pen whereof the feather hath a hollownesse on the right side of the staulke and some time on the left almost at the head or point of the feather is onlie the best whether it bee the second or third of the wing as for the first and fourth Quill they are seldome found to proue good But if thou findest none of the former two sorts when thou wo●ldest or finding anie Raven or Goose pennes whatsoever not having the foresaid tokens or markes refuse them altogether except onlie in great necessitie For what availeth it to make evill pennes though they may be made never so well if when they are made they write not well Alwayes since pennes cannot bee aye had alike good I will not discourage anie but rather informe them in the subsequent Rule how to use the nearest remedie onlie heere in stead of these evill second and third pennes I advise thee to make choise of the best sort of first pennes rather than the fourth that is such as haue maniest of the fore-named fiue qualities for albeit they haue all commonlie some that bee bad as crookednesse shortnesse and oftentimes smalnesse yet naturallie the most part of them haue as manie also that bee good such as roundnesse hardnesse and sometimes greatnesse The manner how to forme the Penne. AFter the Quill is made hote amongst the ashes of the fire and well rubbed being wet with thy mouth first with the backe of a Knife and then with a woollen cloath let it be fashioned in this manner First let the Knife slent downe the fore part or face of the Quill being holden upwardes which if it bee straight is knowne onlie by the hollownesse in the midst of that selfe same side of the stalk or being crooked is perceived aswel by the crookednes as hollownes But beware ye cutany more than half thorow that is the piece not quite taken off Thereafter turne the Quill about and cut the other halfe on the backe just forenent the other halfe cut on the fore side to wit a shorter slent which commeth away with the former from the Quill whereby remaineth two sharpe points at the ende Secondlie holding the quill so still begin the clift rightlie in the midst of the last halfe cut and riue it quicklie up but not farre and that either with the ende of the pen-knife or with that piece of the quill which yee cut off it being holden on the point of the knife as ye shall finde most convenient Thirdlie turne the quill justly about again with the face upwards as it was first and begin forenent the highest part of the clift and cut it downe cleanlie on either side both either proceeding alike or one after another as thou pleasest till it decrease to such a slendernesse or smalnesse or continue in such a fulnes or greatnesse as thou wouldest haue thy letters or writ to bee Fourthlie cut downe the mouth evenly the length whereof not to exceede twise the length of the clift and let it descende by such diminution or abatement as it may desist and leaue off with some height upwardes