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  2. Western calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Western calligraphy is the art of writing and penmanship as practiced in the Western world, especially using the Latin alphabet (but also including calligraphic use of the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, as opposed to "Eastern" traditions such as Turko - Perso - Arabic, Chinese or Indian calligraphy). A contemporary definition of calligraphic ...

  3. Copperplate script - Wikipedia

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    An example of George Bickham 's English Roundhand lettering and engraving ability. A copperplate script is a style of calligraphic writing most commonly associated with English Roundhand. Although often used as an umbrella term for various forms of pointed pen calligraphy, Copperplate most accurately refers to script styles represented in ...

  4. Round hand - Wikipedia

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    George Bickham's Round hand script, from The Universal Penman, c.1740–1741. Round hand (also roundhand) is a type of handwriting and calligraphy originating in England in the 1660s primarily by the writing masters John Ayres and William Banson. Characterised by an open flowing hand (style) and subtle contrast of thick and thin strokes ...

  5. Calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Georgian calligraphy is a centuries-old tradition of an artistic writing of the Georgian language with its three scripts. Calligraphy in Europe is recognizable in the use of the Latin script in Western Europe, and in the use of the Greek, Armenian, and Georgian, and Cyrillic scripts in Eastern Europe.

  6. Secretary hand - Wikipedia

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    Secretary hand. "The secretarie Alphabete": an abecedarium showing the forms of the letters used in secretary hand, from a penmanship book by Jehan de Beau-Chesne and John Baildon, 1570. Covenant bond from 1623 written in Latin and English. Secretary hand or script is a style of European handwriting developed in the early sixteenth century that ...

  7. Carolingian minuscule - Wikipedia

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    Carolingian minuscule alphabet Example from 10th-century manuscript, Vulgate Luke 1:5–8.. Carolingian minuscule or Caroline minuscule is a script which developed as a calligraphic standard in the medieval European period so that the Latin alphabet of Jerome's Vulgate Bible could be easily recognized by the literate class from one region to another.

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