Writing and Printing

Gothic script (palaeography)

Gothic script or gothic minuscule is a name applied to the system of handwriting scripts that originally developed from Caroline minuscule and spread throughout Europe beginning in the late 11th century under the influence of the Normans and Angevins. The Gothic system gave rise to a complex hierarchy of book hands as well as cursive scripts used as court hands in medieval England and France. Gothic book hand, also known as blackletter, was used by early printers such as William Caxton as a typeface and during the 18th century late Gothic Secretary hand merged with Humanist hand to form Mixed or Round Hand, still used in Copperplate calligraphy today.

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• ▸Khowar alphabet
• ▸Denim
• ▸Fijian language

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