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English handwriting 1500-1700

On-line course notes by Andrew Zurcher based on Martin Billingsley's The pens excellencie or the secretaries delighte (1818). In particular he categorizes hands as follows (table borrowed from his pages):
Book hands the hands found in books produced by scriptoria prior to the spread of printing; such hands are more accommodating of attempts at codification

Court hands general business/literary hands, including stylised hands in particular offices/professions which survive alongside Secretary (e.g., chancery hand, exchequer hand, etc.)

Secretary an offshoot of the court hands of the beginning of the C16 (early-, mid-, late-Tudor, Jacobean)

Italic created in Italy c. 1400 and popular with English Humanists from the early C16 on; only once the hand becomes widespread does it start to infect secretary and produce...

Mixed or hybrid/transitional hands, the next stage of the Italic conquest, leading to

Round hand mid-late C17 Italic: the hand we have inherited

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