- Roman scripts
- Post-Roman scripts
- Caroline minuscule
- Gothic variations
- Classical revival
- Microhistories
- Histories of Individual Letters
- The History of a
- The History of b
- The History of c
- The History of d
- The History of e
- The History of f
- The History of g
- The History of h
- The History of i
- The History of j
- The History of k
- The History of l
- The History of m
- The History of n
- The History of o
- The History of p
- The History of q
- The History of r
- The History of s
- The History of t
- The History of u and v
- The History of w
- The History of x
- The History of y
- The History of z
- Histories of Scripts in Literate Institutions
- Histories of Individual Letters
- Roman
scripts
- Square capitals (carved Roman inscription, Latin)
- Square capitals (4th century copy of Virgil, Latin)
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Rustic capitals (8th century psalter, Latin)
- Old Roman cursive (2nd century purchase agreement, Latin)
- Uncial (6th century gospel, Latin)
- Uncial (8th century psalter, Latin)
- Half uncial (6th century religious commentary, Latin)
- New Roman cursive (4th century personal letter, Latin)
- National or pre-Carolingian hands
- Insular half uncial (7th century gospel, Latin)
- Insular minuscule, transitional (9th century copy of Bede, Latin)
- pointed insular minuscule (9th century gloss, Old English)
- Insular minuscule (10th century colophon, Old English)
- Insular minuscule, Irish (12th century gospel, Latin)
- Insular minuscule, English (12th century charter, Old English)
- Old Italian book hand (7th century homilies, Latin)
- Germanic minuscule (8th century annals, Latin)
- Merovingian minuscule (8th century religious commentary, Latin)
- Beneventan minuscule (11th century exultet roll, Latin)
- Visigothic minuscule (10th century liturgical work, Latin)
- Luxeuil Minuscule (7th century lectionary, Latin)
- Corbie a-b (9th century liturgical work, Latin)
- Early document hands
- Early curialis (9th century papal bull, Latin)
- Later curialis (12th century papal bull, Latin)
- Merovingian chancery script (8th century diploma, Latin)
- Caroline minuscule
- French book hand (9th century Vulgate Bible, Latin)
- English book hand, bold (10th century psalter, Latin)
- French book hand (10th century chronicle, lingua romana, lingua teudisca and Latin)
- English book hand, small (11th century psalter, Latin)
- English document hand (12th century forged charter, Latin)
- Gothic book hands
- Protogothic - French (12th century copy of Suetonius, Latin)
- Protogothic - English (12th century bestiary, Latin)
- Protogothic book hand in a document (12th century charter, Latin)
- Rotunda (12th century psalter, Latin)
- Textura (13th century breviary or psalter, Latin)
- Textura (13th century song, English and Latin)
- Textura - small (13th century bestiary, Latin)
- Small glossing script (13th century Bible, Latin)
- Textura, moderate grade (13/14th century text of Petrus Lombardus, Latin)
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Textura (15th century book of hours, Latin)
- Textura, moderately formal (15th century book of hours, Latin)
- Textura, formal (late 15th century book of hours, Dutch language)
- Textura prescissa (14th century psalter, Latin)
- Textura informal grade (15/16th century German psalter, Latin)
- Cursiva anglicana (14th century poem, Middle English)
- Cursiva (15/16th century Joys of the Virgin, Dutch or German)
- Cursiva (15/16th century prayers from a book of hours, French)
- Cursiva (15/16th century bilingual psalter, Latin and French)
- Rotunda (14th century copy of Dante, Italian)
- English bastarda (15th century poem of Hoccleve, English)
- English bastarda (15th century Brut Chronicle, English)
- French bâtarde (15th century chronicle of Charlemagne, French)
- French bâtarde (late 15th century book of hours, Latin)
- French bâtarde (15th century popular song, French)
- early 16th century bastarda (abstract of agreement, English)
- Document hands
- Papal minuscule (12th century papal bull, Latin)
- Papal minuscule (12th century papal bull, Latin)
- Diplomatic minuscule (12th century German imperial diploma, Latin)
- Papal minuscule (13th century papal bull, Latin)
- Papal minuscule (15th century papal bull, Latin)
- Protogothic document hand (12th century charter, Latin)
- Protogothic document hand (12th century charter, Latin)
- Protogothic document hand (12th century royal writ, Latin)
- 13th century English calligraphic document hand (private charter, Latin)
- 13th century ecclesiastical Gothic (appeal to the Holy See, Latin)
- 13th century English cursive (charter, Latin)
- 13th century cursiva anglicana (charter, Latin)
- 13th century informal chancery hand (royal writ, Latin)
- 13th century cursiva anglicana (royal charter from Germany, Latin)
- late 13th century cursiva anglicana (royal letters patent, Latin)
- early 14th century cursiva anglicana (privy seal writ, French)
- 14th century cursiva anglicana (chancery warrant, French)
- 14th century English cursive (private letters patent, French)
- 14th century French cursive (acquittance, French)
- 14th century French cursive (aquittance, French)
- 14th century Italian court hand (court roll, Latin)
- 15th century English cursive (private charter, Latin)
- 15th century English chancery hand (petition, English)
- 15th century English chancery hand (petition, English)
- 15th century English chancery hand (petition, English)
- 15th century chancery hand (endorsement on petition, English)
- 15th century English chancery hand (petition, French)
- 15th century chancery hand (recipe for ink, English)
- 15th century English cursive (endorsement on petition, Latin)
- 15th century English (charter, Latin)
- 15th century ordinary cursive ( petition, English)
- 15th century cursive letter hand (personal letter, English)
- late 15th century chancery hand (chancery warrant, English)
- late 15th/early16th century cursive (genealogy, English)
- early 16th century cursive (notes on a genealogy, English)
- early 16th century Italian notarial hand (legal document, Latin)
- 16th century English personal hand (confession of sins, Latin)
- 16th century (lease by indenture, English)
- mid 16th century business hand (city corporation minutes, English)
- late 16th century legal hand (final concord, Latin)
- Other
Gothic
- Gothic textura inscription (15th century brass funerary memorial, Latin)
- Humanistic scripts
- Humanistic display script (15th century copy of Aristotle, Latin)
- humanistic display script (15th century book of hours, Latin)
- Humanistic minuscule (15th century copy of St Augustine, Latin)
- Humanistic minuscule (16th century book of hours, Latin)
- Nomina Sacra
- Common words
- Contractions within words
- Proper nouns
- English abbreviations
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