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That was fascinating! If only everyone would write in monotype.
by midgetjones 10y ago
That was fascinating!
If only everyone would write in monotype.
- KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 10y agoI am no expert but my recollection is that European handwriting had a large degree of standardization for long periods. Perhaps we have an expert here who could tell us more. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/researchguidance/medievaldocuments/handwritingstyles.aspx https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollection...
- eb0la 10y agoNot an expert, but I spent a lot of time looking at spanish 17th century notary books ;-) I guess handwriting in pre-press texts (incunables) is "designed" to be easy to copy. If you look at the textura (gothic) script it is based on the same pen movement with a flat pen. You cannot improvise too much with that kind of pen. This looks a feature to me, because the cost of writing on vellum, mistakes were very expensive.