A script or handwriting script is a formal, standard style of handwriting (as opposed to personal handwriting) within a writing system. A hand may be a synonym or a variation, such as a subset of script.Archival Skills: Palaeography
There is a variety of historical styles in manuscript documents,Types of Script, Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website Some of them belonging to calligraphy, whereas some were set up for better readability, utility or teaching (teaching script).
Historic styles of handwriting may be studied by palaeography.
List of scripts Chancery hand Round hand Secretary hand Court hand Library hand Blackletter Italian hand Italic script Ronde Humanist minuscule Carolingian minuscule Roman cursive Uncial script Insular script Beneventan script Visigothic script Merovingian script
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