Sentence examples for book hand from inspiring English sources

In Italy rotunda was the favoured book hand through the 15th century.

In the Luxeuil monastery, in Burgundy, the minuscule attained in the 7th century the characteristics of a fine book hand.

Until about 800 ce the uncials were used as a book hand; later the minuscule script was employed for the same purpose.

Nevertheless, by the 8th century the minuscule was developing into a disciplined book hand, as seen in the copy of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica (c. 731).

Carolingian minuscule remained the unrivaled book hand of western Europe through the 9th century, when a trend away from this official imperial standard appeared in some places.

The book hand of a manuscript of Plato's Phaedo (c. 100 ce; Egypt Exploration Society, London) shares the informality of cursive but regularizes the letter forms.

A very tiny book, hand-bound, that measures, according to the photographer, one inch by one inch and a quarter.

"Isn't this the most beautiful book you've ever seen?" Steele asked as she lifted the book, hand-bound and printed on handmade paper.

They would make a great setting for the antique china and stemware offered by Elise Abrams, a dealer who has just written the book "Hand-Painted Porcelain Plates" (Schiffer) with Richard Rendall.

The fundamental distinction in types of handwriting is that between book hands and documentary hands.

The younger of the two new book hands is called half uncial.