OSLEY, A. S., (translator and editor).

Scribes and Sources. Handbook of the Chancery Hand in the Sixteenth Century.

Boston: Godine, (1980),

First American Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 291pp. Godine, Item #35281

The text consists of translations of fifteenth-century writing books with a detailed biographical and technical commentary. With 22 full-page illustrations and 450 in-text illustrations. With an account of John de Beauchesne by Berthold Wolpe and a 3 1/2 pp. bibliography. A very fine, clean copy.

Price: $25.00