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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.
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.
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]
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 ...
Anglicana or Cursiva Anglicana, the more informal English forms of Gothic or Blackletter used from the 13th to 15th centuries; Anglicana or Bastarda Anglicana, the English form of bastard Gothic or Blackletter; Anglicana or court hand, a style of handwriting developed from this, used as late as the 18th century in English courts of law
An Anglicana bastarda form developed from a mixture of Anglicana and textualis, but by the 16th century, the principal cursive blackletter used in England was the Secretary script, which originated in Italy and came to England by way of France.
Court hand – Style of handwriting used in medieval English law courts (also known as law hand, Anglicana, cursiva antiquior, or charter hand) Cursive – Style of penmanship Hand (writing style) – Style of handwriting Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Notably, scribes began to upgrade some of the cursive scripts. A script that has been thus formalized is known as a bastard script (whereas a bookhand that has had cursive elements fused onto it is known as a hybrid script). The advantage of such a script was that it could be written more quickly than a pure bookhand; it thus recommended itself ...