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Handwriting script

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A hand, script or handwriting script is a formal, impersonal, generic style of handwriting.

There is a variety of historical styles in manuscript documents. Some of them belonging to calligraphy, whereas some were set up for better readabiliy, utility or teaching (teaching script).

Historic styles of handwriting may be studied by palaeography

Personal variations and idiosyncrasies in writing style departing from the standard hand, which may for example allow the work of a particular scribe copying or writing a manuscript to be identified, are described by the term handwriting.

The evolution of the minuscule Latin hand

List of hands

References