The sample of author Ball's writing at the end of the article looks like Italic Cursive, which I use myself. The whole idea of cursive is to allow ligatures in

The sample of author Ball's writing at the end of the article looks like Italic Cursive, which I use myself. The whole idea of cursive is to allow ligatures in fast, personal writing, simply to make it fast. That became stylized in roundhand/copperplate script, later in Palmer. I hadn't run across the use of "manuscript" for "printing" until this thread. Apparently this is being done to elevate what is now considered pejorative. "Manuscript" is (was) a general term referring to a handwritten document, not its style, e.g. half uncial. Judging from the posts here, I'd say handwriting is doomed.