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  2. Court hand - Wikipedia

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    Court hand: alphabet (upper-cases and lower-cases) and some syllable abbreviations. Court hand (also common law hand, Anglicana, cursiva antiquior, and charter hand [1]) was a style of handwriting used in medieval English law courts, and later by professionals such as lawyers and clerks.

  3. Book hand - Wikipedia

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    A book hand was any of several stylized handwriting scripts used during ancient and medieval times. [1] It was intended for legibility and often used in transcribing official documents (prior to the development of printing and similar technologies).

  4. Chancery hand - Wikipedia

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    English chancery hand. Facsimile letter from Henry V of England, 1418.. The term "chancery hand" can refer to either of two distinct styles of historical handwriting.A chancery hand was at first a form of handwriting for business transactions that developed in the Lateran chancery (the Cancelleria Apostolica) of the 13th century, then spread to France, notably through the Avignon Papacy, and ...

  5. Secretary hand - Wikipedia

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    Book hand – Legible handwriting style; Calligraphy – Visual art related to writing; Chancery hand – Any of several styles of historic handwriting (used in the records of the Court of Common Pleas) Court hand – Style of handwriting used in medieval English law courts (also known as law hand, Anglicana, cursiva antiquior, or charter hand)

  6. Visigothic script - Wikipedia

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    Visigothic script was a type of medieval script that originated in the Visigothic Kingdom in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula).Its more limiting alternative designations littera toletana and littera mozarabica associate it with scriptoria specifically in Toledo and with Mozarabic culture more generally, respectively.

  7. Kurrent - Wikipedia

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    Kurrent (German: [kʊˈʁɛnt]) is an old form of German-language handwriting based on late medieval cursive writing, also known as Kurrentschrift ("cursive script"), deutsche Schrift ("German script"), and German cursive. Over the history of its use into the first part of the 20th century, many individual letters acquired variant forms.

  8. Roman cursive - Wikipedia

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    Sample of cursive letter shapes, with Old Roman Cursive in the upper rows and New Roman Cursive in the lower rows. Roman cursive (or Latin cursive) is a form of handwriting (or a script) used in ancient Rome and to some extent into the Middle Ages.

  9. Bastarda - Wikipedia

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    Bastarda type in Fry's Pantographia. Bastarda or bastard was a blackletter script used in France, the Burgundian Netherlands and Germany during the 14th and 15th centuries. The Burgundian variant of script can be seen as the court script of the Dukes of Burgundy.