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Spencerian penmanship, style of handwriting developed by Platt Rogers Spencer (died 1864) of Geneva, Ohio.
They are written using iron gall ink in what appears to be an early 16th century Spanish judicial script, a Secretary style of handwriting known as "Corestano". With legible manuscript notations reading, "Baena, 26 Nov 1513," and the names "Fernandez," and "Cordoba," which are likely parts of the name Juana Fernandez de Cordoba.
"This study, without compromising the physical integrity of the roll, has not merely discovered traces of the ink inside it, but has also helped identify with a certain likelihood the style of handwriting used in the text, along with its author," the authors write.
Indeed, in getting to the documents - which got their nickname from Prince Charles's distinctive style of handwriting -, Mr Evans has carved "a very sizeable hole" in the legislation, to use the words of one rather annoyed senior mandarin.
Shakespeare's six authenticated signatures are written in secretary hand, a style of handwriting that vanished by 1700, and he used breviographs to abbreviate his surname in three of them.
Consequently, the written English that developed at the Court of Chancery eventually became a standard, both in its style of handwriting ('Chancery hand') and in its grammar and vocabulary.
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14 Styles of handwriting.
Primarily medieval and early modern documents representing different styles of handwriting.
Yet it does not explain how to write any of the 15 styles of handwriting it contains.
At certain epochs several different styles of handwriting existed simultaneously, so that there is no straight line of development.
Help in dating is offered by changes in styles of handwriting and variations from area to area.
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