Palaeography
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Palaeography or paleography is the study and academic discipline of historical writing systems. It encompasses the historicity of manuscripts and texts, subsuming deciphering and dating of historical
William Shakespeare's will, written in secretary hand
Table showing the Mandaic alphabet with some of the mysteries represented by the letters
Detail of the Berlin papyrus 9875 showing the 5th column of Timotheus' Persae, with a coronis symbol to mark the end
The Derveni Papyrus, a Greek Macedonian philosophical text dating 340 BC, considered Europe's oldest manuscript
Secretary hand
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Secretary hand or script is a style of European handwriting developed in the early sixteenth century that remained common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for writing English, German, Dutch,
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…was abolished by Hitler in 1941. After World War II, it was taught as an alternative script in some areas until the 1970s; it is no longer taught. Secretary hand is an informal business hand of the Renaissance. There are undeniable points of contact between architecture and palaeography, and in both it is possible…
"The secretarie Alphabete": an abecedarium showing the forms of the letters used in secretary hand, from a penmanship book by Jehan de Beau-Chesne and John Baildon, 1570.
Covenant bond from 1623 written in Latin and English
Book of the Dean of Lismore (16th century), written in Scottish Gaelic