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Italic script, the Glossary

Italic script, also known as chancery cursive and Italic hand, is a semi-cursive, slightly sloped style of handwriting and calligraphy that was developed during the Renaissance in Italy.^[1]

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Latin-script calligraphy

Alfred Fairbank

Alfred John Fairbank CBE (12 July 1895 – 14 March 1982) was a British calligrapher, palaeographer and author on handwriting.

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Asemic writing

Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing.

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Bastarda or bastard was a blackletter script used in France, the Burgundian Netherlands and Germany during the 14th and 15th centuries. Italic script and bastarda are Typography and Western calligraphy.

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Blackletter

Blackletter (sometimes black letter or black-letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 until the 17th century. Italic script and Blackletter are Typography and Western calligraphy.

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Book hand

A book hand was any of several stylized handwriting scripts used during ancient and medieval times. Italic script and book hand are penmanship.

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Calligraphy

Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing. Italic script and Calligraphy are penmanship.

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Carolingian minuscule

Carolingian minuscule or Caroline minuscule is a script which developed as a calligraphic standard in the medieval European period so that the Latin alphabet of Jerome's Vulgate Bible could be easily recognized by the literate class from one region to another. Italic script and Carolingian minuscule are Latin-script calligraphy and Western calligraphy.

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Chancery hand

The term "chancery hand" can refer to either of two distinct styles of historical handwriting. Italic script and Chancery hand are Latin-script calligraphy and Western calligraphy.

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Copperplate script

A copperplate script is a style of calligraphic writing most commonly associated with English Roundhand. Italic script and copperplate script are penmanship and Western calligraphy.

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Court hand

Court hand (also common law hand, Anglicana, cursiva antiquior, and charter hand) was a style of handwriting used in medieval English law courts, and later by professionals such as lawyers and clerks. Italic script and court hand are Latin-script calligraphy and Western calligraphy.

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Cursive

Cursive (also known as joined-up writing) is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block letters. Italic script and Cursive are penmanship and Western calligraphy.

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DK (publisher)

Dorling Kindersley Limited (branded as DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages.

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Edward Johnston

Edward Johnston, CBE (11 February 1872 – 26 November 1944) was a British craftsman who is regarded, with Rudolf Koch, as the father of modern calligraphy, in the particular form of the broad-edged pen as a writing tool.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Getty-Dubay Italic

Getty-Dubay Italic is a modern teaching script for handwriting based on Latin script, developed in 1976 in Portland, Oregon, by Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay with the aim of allowing learners to make an easier transition from print writing to cursive. Italic script and Getty-Dubay Italic are penmanship.

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Handwriting

Handwriting is the personal and unique style of writing with a writing instrument, such as a pen or pencil in the hand. Italic script and Handwriting are penmanship.

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Handwriting script

A script or handwriting script is a formal, generic style of handwriting (as opposed to personal handwriting), within a writing system. Italic script and handwriting script are penmanship and Western calligraphy.

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History of writing

The history of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies.

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Humanist minuscule

Humanist minuscule is a handwriting or style of script that was invented in secular circles in Italy, at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Italic script and Humanist minuscule are Western calligraphy.

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Italic script

Italic script, also known as chancery cursive and Italic hand, is a semi-cursive, slightly sloped style of handwriting and calligraphy that was developed during the Renaissance in Italy. Italic script and Italic script are Latin-script calligraphy, penmanship, Typography and Western calligraphy.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi

Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi (1475?–1527?) was a papal scribe and type designer in Renaissance Italy.

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Monica Bridges

(Mary) Monica Bridges born Mary Monica Waterhouse (pseud) Matthew Barnes (31 August 1863 – 9 November 1949) was a British pianist, composer and collaborator with her husband the poet Robert Bridges.

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Niccolò de' Niccoli

Niccolò de' Niccoli (1364 – 22 January 1437) was an Italian Renaissance humanist.

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Palaeography

Palaeography (UK) or paleography (US; ultimately from παλαιός,, 'old', and γράφειν,, 'to write') is the study and academic discipline of the analysis of historical writing systems, the historicity of manuscripts and texts, subsuming deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysis of historic penmanship, handwriting script, signification and printed media. Italic script and Palaeography are Western calligraphy.

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Penmanship

Penmanship is the technique of writing with the hand using a writing instrument.

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Printing press

A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Roman square capitals

Roman square capitals, also called capitalis monumentalis, inscriptional capitals, elegant capitals and capitalis quadrata, are an ancient Roman form of writing, and the basis for modern capital letters. Italic script and Roman square capitals are Latin-script calligraphy.

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Ronde script

('round' in French) is a kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look. Italic script and Ronde script are Latin-script calligraphy and Western calligraphy.

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Rotunda (script)

The Rotunda is a specific medieval blackletter script. Italic script and Rotunda (script) are Western calligraphy.

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Round hand

Round hand (also roundhand) is a type of handwriting and calligraphy originating in England in the 1660s primarily by the writing masters John Ayres and William Banson. Italic script and round hand are penmanship and Western calligraphy.

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Secretary hand

Secretary hand or script is a style of European handwriting developed in the early sixteenth century that remained common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for writing English, German, Welsh and Gaelic. Italic script and Secretary hand are penmanship and Western calligraphy.

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William Morris

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italic_script

Also known as Cancellaresca Corsiva, Chancery cursive, Italic hand, Italicised script, Italicized script.