Really, really cool visualisation! Even though I know almost nothing at all about the subject of medieval palaeography in Western Europe, I did read recently t

Really, really cool visualisation! Even though I know almost nothing at all about the subject of medieval palaeography in Western Europe, I did read recently the write-downs of a Italian conference focused on the subject of palaeography in the Italian Middle Ages, and that is how I learned about stuff like La minuscola cancelleresca and La mercantesca. A link (in Italian, google translate can help) [1] about these two styles of writing and how they were formed: > la MINUSCOLA CANCELLERESCA, usata dai notai e dalla classe colta non universitaria, e la MERCANTESCA, scrittura professionale dei mercanti, usata anche per testi letterari (ma solo in lingua volgare). via google translate > the MINUSCULE CANCELLERESCA, used by notaries and the non-university educated class, and the MERCANTESCA, the professional writing of merchants, also used for literary texts (but only in the vernacular). [1] https://spotlight.vatlib.it/it/latin-paleography/feature/17-la-minuscola-cancelleresca-e-la-mercantesca https://spotlight.vatlib.it/it/latin-paleography/feature/17-...