Script Index

• Roman scripts
  • Square capitals (carved Roman inscription, Latin)
  • Square capitals (4th century copy of Virgil, Latin)
  • Rustic capitals (8th century psalter, Latin)
• Old Roman cursive (2nd century purchase agreement, Latin)
• Uncial (6th century gospel, Latin)
• Uncial (8th century psalter, Latin)
• Half uncial (6th century religious commentary, Latin)
• New Roman cursive (4th century personal letter, Latin)
• National or pre-Carolingian hands
• Insular half uncial (7th century gospel, Latin)
• Insular minuscule, transitional (9th century copy of Bede, Latin)
• pointed insular minuscule (9th century gloss, Old English)
• Insular minuscule (10th century colophon, Old English)
• Insular minuscule, Irish (12th century gospel, Latin)
• Insular minuscule, English (12th century charter, Old English)
• Old Italian book hand (7th century homilies, Latin)
• Germanic minuscule (8th century annals, Latin)
• Merovingian minuscule (8th century Gallican missal, Latin)
• Merovingian minuscule (8th century religious commentary, Latin)
• Early Beneventan or Lombardic minuscule (8th century religious commentary, Latin)
• Beneventan minuscule (11th century exultet roll, Latin)
• Visigothic minuscule (10th century liturgical work, Latin)
• Luxeuil Minuscule (7th century lectionary, Latin)
• Corbie a-b (9th century liturgical work, Latin)
• Early document hands
• Early curialis (9th century papal bull, Latin)
• Later curialis (12th century papal bull, Latin)
• Merovingian chancery script (8th century diploma, Latin)
• Caroline minuscule
• French book hand (9th century Vulgate Bible, Latin)
• English book hand, bold (10th century psalter, Latin)
• French book hand (10th century chronicle, lingua romana, lingua teudisca and Latin)
• English book hand, small (11th century psalter, Latin)
• English document hand (12th century forged charter, Latin)
• Gothic book hands
• Protogothic - French (12th century copy of Suetonius, Latin)
• Protogothic - English (12th century bestiary, Latin)
• Protogothic book hand in a document (12th century charter, Latin)
• Rotunda (12th century psalter, Latin)
• Rotunda (14th century copy of Dante, Italian)
• Rotunda, tiny semi-cursive (14th century theological treatise, Latin)
• Textura (13th century breviary or psalter, Latin)
• Textura (13th century song, English and Latin)
• Textura - small (13th century bestiary, Latin)
• Small glossing script (13th century Bible, Latin)
• Textura, moderate grade (13/14th century text of Petrus Lombardus, Latin)
• Textura prescissa (14th century psalter, Latin)
• Textura (15th century book of hours, Latin)
• Textura, moderately formal (15th century book of hours, Latin)
• Textura, formal (late 15th century book of hours, Dutch language)
• Textura informal grade (15/16th century German psalter, Latin)
• Cursiva anglicana (14th century poem, Middle English)
• Cursiva (15/16th century Joys of the Virgin, Dutch or German)
• Cursiva (15/16th century prayers from a book of hours, French)
• Cursiva (15/16th century bilingual psalter, Latin and French)
• English bastarda (15th century poem of Hoccleve, English)
• English bastarda (15th century Brut Chronicle, English)
• French bâtarde (15th century chronicle of Charlemagne, French)
• French bâtarde (late 15th century book of hours, Latin)
• French bâtarde (15th century popular song, French)
• early 16th century bastarda (abstract of agreement, English)
• Document hands
  • Insular minuscule, English (early 12th century manumissions of serfs, Old English)
• Papal minuscule (12th century papal bull, Latin)
• Papal minuscule (12th century papal bull, Latin)
• Diplomatic minuscule (12th century German imperial diploma, Latin)
• Papal minuscule (13th century papal bull, Latin)
• Papal minuscule (15th century papal bull, Latin)
• Protogothic document hand (12th century charter, Latin)
• Protogothic document hand (12th century charter, Latin)
• Protogothic document hand (12th century royal writ, Latin)
• 13th century English calligraphic document hand (private charter, Latin)
• 13th century ecclesiastical Gothic (appeal to the Holy See, Latin)
• 13th century English cursive (charter, Latin)
• 13th century cursiva anglicana (charter, Latin)
• 13th century informal chancery hand (royal writ, Latin)
• 13th century cursiva anglicana (royal charter from Germany, Latin)
• late 13th century cursiva anglicana (royal letters patent, Latin)
• early 14th century cursiva anglicana (privy seal writ, French)
• 14th century cursiva anglicana (chancery warrant, French)
• 14th century English cursive (private letters patent, French)
• 14th century French Secretary cursive (royal letter close, French)
• 14th century French cursive (acquittance, French)
• 14th century French cursive (aquittance, French)
• 14th century Italian court hand (court roll, Latin)
• 14th and 15th century English personal cursives (monastic pressmarks, Latin)
• 15th century English cursive (private charter, Latin)
• 15th century English chancery hand (petition, English)
• 15th century English chancery hand (petition, English)
• 15th century English chancery hand (petition, English)
• 15th century chancery hand (endorsement on petition, English)
• 15th century English chancery hand (petition, French)
• 15th century chancery hand (recipe for ink, English)
• 15th century English cursive (endorsement on petition, Latin)
• 15th century English (charter, Latin)
• 15th century ordinary cursive ( petition, English)
• 15th century cursive letter hand (personal letter, English)
• 15th century cursive French document hand (land transaction deed, Latin)
• late 15th century chancery hand (chancery warrant, English)
• late 15th century personal cursive hand (list of books, English)
• late 15th/early16th century cursive (genealogy, English)
• early 16th century cursive (notes on a genealogy, English)
• early 16th century Italian notarial hand (legal document, Latin)
• 16th century English personal hand (confession of sins, Latin)
• 16th century (lease by indenture, English)
• mid 16th century business hand (city corporation minutes, English)
• late 16th century legal hand (final concord, Latin)
• Other Gothic
  • Gothic textura inscription (15th century brass funerary memorial, Latin)
• Humanistic scripts
• Humanistic display script (15th century copy of Aristotle, Latin)
• humanistic display script (15th century book of hours, Latin)
• Humanistic minuscule (15th century copy of St Augustine, Latin)
• Humanistic minuscule (16th century book of hours, Latin)

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