Calligraphic Exercise in Latin (Cursive Script)
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Calligraphic exercize in Latin, presented in a double rectangular frame. The text begins with the words 'Sapientia aedificavit domum suam (...)' and runs for six lines. The initial 'S' is decorated and the etnire first word is written in majuscules, the rest of the text is cursive and flanked by two calligraphic swirls on each side. Part of an album with 26 examples of calligraphy and micrography, thought to have been produced in France or possibly Antwerp at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
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