Handwriting script
A script or handwriting script is a formal, generic style of handwriting (as opposed to personal handwriting). A hand may be a synonym or a variation, a subset of script[1]
There is a variety of historical styles in manuscript documents.[2] Some of them belonging to calligraphy,[3] whereas some were set up for better readabiliy, utility or teaching (teaching script).[4]
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 (or hand).
List of hands
- Chancery hand
- Round hand
- Secretary hand
- Court hand
- Library hand
- Blackletter
- Humanist minuscule
- Carolingian minuscule
- Roman cursive
- Uncial script
- Insular script
- Beneventan script
- Visigothic script
- Merovingian script
References
- ^ Archival Skills: Palaeography
- ^ Types of Script, Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website
- ^ Calligraphy and Painting, ByPin Wang, Edited ByChris Shei, Bo Wang, Published Online 30 May 2022, First Published 2023
- ^ German teachers campaign to simplify handwriting in schools, Helen Pidd, 29 Jun 2011
Sources
- Florey, K.B. (2013). Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting. Melville House. ISBN 978-1-61219-305-2. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
- Douglas, A. (2017). Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840. Oxford Textual Perspectives. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-250621-4. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
- Thornton, T.P. (1996). Handwriting in America: A Cultural History. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-07441-3. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
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