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1) Pointed Text
2) Rounded - (sans serif)
Morison 3) Fere Humanistica
4) Bastard
5) Mixed

never used by scribes in France or England
& very seldom in Germany, though it
prevailed in Italy to the almost complete
exclusion of pointed text.

- 8 from 8 is almost invariable (as opposed to the lower case q)
present in a fere humanistica

- a - an important test letter - in formal pointed text or
round text & in fere humanistica, B appears as a double
bodied character - single bodied a -> bastard (Schwabacher)

- however various & free they become Bastard foente
invariably employed the single bodied a; it is to be
noted that the 1st humanistic 'italic' to all its successors
in the humanistic founts, also deserted the double bodied
famous characteristic of the 'roman' fount.

15th C France - 4 designs - border illuminations

1) floriated - where flowers & birds are painted in natural
arrangement.

2) ivy leaf - when stems are found, thin or thick, throwing
out ivy leaves of gold or other color to some tendrils

3) like & leaf - where the stem is a hair like only, bid
still enters into the design as an integral part,
the icanses being as in the preceding style.

4) geometrical - in which the whole branch is divided
into pieces by symmetrical lines, each piece
being separately filled up to ornament.

This fine bookhand was a revival of the characters used in the
scriptoriums founded by Charlemagne around the year 800
& became the inspiration for the 1st roman type of the
15th C. printers.