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If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...
Reading cursive can now be added to the list of most-wanted skills — at least according to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. The federal organization tasked with archiving ...
A 1394 document in the Johannine script; Torre do Tombo National Archives, Lisbon, Portugal Johannine script (Portuguese: letra joanina) was a historical style of handwriting used in the Portuguese Royal Chancery starting around the reign of John I (1385–1433) that was used until the reign of Manuel I (1495–1521).
The National Archives, Admiralty Papers: Vice Admiral Richard Howe sent this copy from the flagship Eagle, then "off Staten Island" with a letter dated July 28, 1776. [18] 26: London, United Kingdom: The National Archives, Colonial Office Papers: Discovered in box of documents in 2009. Exact provenance is currently unknown. [21]
The hand thus used by secretaries was developed from cursive business hands and was in common use throughout the British Isles through the seventeenth century. In spite of its loops and flourishes it was widely used by scriveners and others whose daily employment comprised hours of writing.
More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents at the National Archives are in need of transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority of them are handwritten in cursive – requiring ...
Chancery cursive (cancelleresca corsiva) hand.Papal Letter to Christian II of Denmark, 21 April 1518 (Royal Archives). The later cancelleresca corsiva ("cursive chancery hand"), often called "Chancery Cursive", developed from Humanist minuscule, itself the progeny of Carolingian minuscule, in the mid-15th century as "a cursive form of the humanistic minuscule". [4]
In 2010, the national Common Core education standards were published to help prepare students for college. Cursive was left out. "They stopped teaching kids how to form any letters at all.