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Example page of the "Italique Hande" from a copy of A booke containing diuers sortes of hands... first published in 1570.

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. It is one of the most popular styles used in contemporary Western calligraphy.

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Italic script

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Italic script, also known as chancery cursive and Italic hand, is a semi-cursive, slightly sloped style of handwriting and calligraphy that was developed...

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Old Italic scripts

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The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used on the Italian Peninsula between about 700 and 100 BC, for various languages spoken...

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History of the Latin script

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this script has enjoyed a revival in the 20th century. Note: "Italic hand" (a semi-cursive script), "Italian hand" (a copperplate cursive script) and...

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Cursive

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(Grass script) D'Nealian Method Emphasis (typography) Hand (writing style) Handwriting Hieratic and Cursive hieroglyphs History of writing Italic script Palaeography...

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Cyrillic script

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The Cyrillic script (/sɪˈrɪlɪk/ sih-RIL-ik), Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It...

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Italic languages

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of Italic languages currently spoken see Romance languages. Most Italic languages (including Romance) are generally written in Old Italic scripts (or...

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A

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These variants, the Italic and Roman forms, were derived from the Caroline Script version. The Italic form ⟨ɑ⟩, also called script a, is often used in...

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Latin script

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The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, and technically Latin writing system, is an alphabetic writing system based on the letters of the classical...

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Italic type

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In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as...

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Secretary hand

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English, German, Welsh and Gaelic. Predominating before the dominance of Italic script, it arose out of the need for a hand more legible and universally recognizable...

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Blackletter

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blackletter by many centuries and was written in the insular script or in Futhorc. Along with Italic type and Roman type, blackletter served as one of the major...

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Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi

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Slimbach (for example Adobe Jenson italic) and Jonathan Hoefler (in his Requiem Text typeface.) The italic script presented in La Operina was also revived...

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Italic

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Italy Italic languages, an Indo-European language family Old Italic alphabet, an alphabet of ancient Italy Italic script, a method of handwriting Italic type...

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Osage script

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The Osage script is a new script promulgated in 2006 and revised 2012–2014 for the Osage language. Because Latin orthographies were subject to interference...

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E

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letter epsilon, used to represent /e/. The various forms of the Old Italic script and the Latin alphabet followed this usage. Although Middle English...

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Gaulish

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tablets. Gaulish was first written in Greek script in southern France and in a variety of Old Italic script in northern Italy. After the Roman conquest...

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Latin alphabet

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believed that the Latin alphabet used by the Romans was derived from the Old Italic alphabet used by the Etruscans. That alphabet was derived from the Euboean...

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G

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direct descendant of zeta. Zeta took shapes like ⊏ in some of the Old Italic scripts; the development of the monumental form 'G' from this shape would be...

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Round hand

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renaissance italic cursiva script into a new script, italic circumflessa. By the end of the 16th century, italic circumflessa began to replace italic cursiva...

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Barchowsky Fluent Handwriting

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transition from print writing to cursive. BFH is an italic script, similar to the Getty-Dubay Italic, where the letterforms of the print writing version...

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Etruscan alphabet

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"western" ("red") type, the so-called Western Greek alphabet. Several Old Italic scripts, including the Latin alphabet, derived from it (or simultaneously with...

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Phoenician alphabet

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adaptations of the Phoenician alphabet thrived, including Greek, Old Italic and Anatolian scripts. The alphabet's attractive innovation was its phonetic nature...

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Calligraphy

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Writing created by a person with a writing implement History of writing Italic script – Semi-cursive, slightly sloped style of handwriting and calligraphy...

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Book hand

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Handwriting History of writing Italic script Law hand Palaeography Penmanship Ronde script (calligraphy) Rotunda (script) Round hand Secretary hand Dillon...

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Umbrian language

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written in two alphabets. The older, the Umbrian alphabet, like other Old Italic script, was derived from the Etruscan alphabet, and was written right-to-left...

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