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958: 27: 392: 284: 237: 130: 343:, which had refined cursive chancery hand in its infancy during the latter half of the 15th century. While considered a cursive, this "papal hand" was "strongly disciplined in form, regular in movement and slightly, if at all, inclined from the perpendicular." 212:, and met with Mr. Kipps, who directed me to Mr. Beale to get my patent engrossed; but he not having time to get it done in Chancery-hand, I was forced to run all up and down 810: 761: 756: 439: â€“ Style of handwriting used in medieval English law courts (also known as law hand, Anglicana, cursiva antiquior, or charter hand) 778: 181:, enrolments, patents, and engrossing of royal letters; its use continued for the enrollment of acts of Parliament until 1836. 693: 652: 315:, in the mid-15th century as "a cursive form of the humanistic minuscule". In England and France at the time it was known as 173:
each of the royal departments tended to develop its own characteristic hand: the chancery hand used in the royal chancery at
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the cursive chancery hand was employed in correspondence, everyday business, and documents of minor formal importance.
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and first used in 1500 for the small portable series of inexpensive classics that issued from the Aldine press.
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In cursive chancery hand the pen was held slanted at a 45° angle for speed, but it could also produce beautiful
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In 16th-century England it became known as the "Italian hand" to distinguish it from the angular, cramped,
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This article is about the European style of writing. For the Chinese style of calligraphy, see
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The English chancery hand was already an arcane speciality by the time of the
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Palaeography: reading old handwriting 1500 - 1800 A practical online tutorial
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Facsimile selections from a range of continental and English writing masters.
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Scribes and Sources: Handbook of Chancery Hand in the Sixteenth Century
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Selected Essays On the History of Letter-forms in Manuscript and Print
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and got my bill perfected there, and at the Signet: and then to the
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script known as cursive chancery hand. He was a scribe in the
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List of online resources for early modern English paleography
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Fisher, John; Richardson, Malcolm; Fisher, Jane L. (eds.).
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Medieval writing: 16th century English chancery hand
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Medieval writing: 15th century English chancery hand
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after 1350. This early "chancery hand" is a form of
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Index

Clerical script

Henry V of England
historical handwriting
handwriting
Lateran chancery
France
Avignon Papacy
England
blackletter
chanceries
minor orders
cursive
Vatican
humanist minuscule
Carolingian minuscule
Niccolò Niccoli
italic

talk page
medieval England
Westminster
writs
Restoration
Samuel Pepys
White Hall
Commissioner Pett
Privy Seal
House of Lords
Chancery-lane

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