Social:Book hand
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Short description: Legible handwriting style
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]
In palaeography and calligraphy, the term hand is still used to refer to a named style of writing, such as the chancery hand.[1]
See also
- Bastarda
- Blackletter
- Calligraphy
- Chancery hand
- Court hand (also known as common law hand, Anglicana, cursiva antiquior, or charter hand)
- Cursive
- Handwriting
- History of writing
- Italic script
- Law hand
- Palaeography
- Penmanship
- Ronde script (calligraphy)
- Rotunda (script)
- Round hand
- Secretary hand
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dillon, Emma (2002-10-07) (in en). Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel. Cambridge University Press. pp. 25. ISBN 978-0-521-81371-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=5BFZg-u4olsC.
- ↑ Black, Robert (2002-08-08) (in en). Benedetto Accolti and the Florentine Renaissance. Cambridge University Press. pp. 130–133. ISBN 978-0-521-52227-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=61wNf7ZJhkcC.
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