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Page from the Book of Hours of Giovanni II Bentivoglio, Bologna, c. 1497–1500. Humanist minuscule with colored versals and decorations. The evolution of minuscule Latin script. Humanist minuscule, or whiteletter, [a] is a handwriting script or style of script that was invented in secular circles in Italy, at the beginning of the fifteenth ...
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)
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 ...
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). [2]
Cursive – any style of handwriting written in a flowing (cursive) manner, which connects many or all of the letters in a word, or the strokes in a CJK character or other grapheme. Studies of writing and penmanship. Chirography – handwriting, its style and character; Diplomatics – forensic paleography (seeks the provenance of written ...
Insular script was used not only for Latin religious books, but also for every other kind of book, including vernacular works. Examples include the Book of Kells , the Cathach of St. Columba , the Ambrosiana Orosius , the Durham Gospel Fragment , the Book of Durrow , the Durham Gospels , the Echternach Gospels , the Lindisfarne Gospels , the ...
Medieval writing scripts — writing systems used in Medieval manuscripts and other written documents & communications. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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.