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The a in pure Gothic is made by the bottom loop in one
conuter clockwise stroke completed by a clockwise stroke
closing the opening

Gothic Script
- Certain letter forms found in manuscripts during the
Gothic period from 13-15C.
-origin - round Carolingian minuscule of the late 8 + 9the C
- it is rather to be looked upon thatn read
- great diversity of hands - previous - all writing
of books was done within monastic scriptions.
- 3 branches 1) lithurgical (textus quadratus or textura

Gutenberg Bible - books of hours
never found facor in Italy or Spain -
rather used rotunda.

H.C. Schulz Z 239 G 72S 389 38 38f 2) Vernacular or bastarda
"a" similar to our written or italic letter
"s" + "f" are o fthe long variety
3) scholastic hands

flemish illumination
- venter in 3 towns - Burges, Ghent + Antwerp (all present Belgium)
- late in awakening - tis close was the close of
the manuscript period
- arose about about 1475
- continued to end quarter of the 16th C.
fullest perfection under Simon Bening + his pupils
(Hennessy Hours at Brussels)
-objects as they were seen with his own eyes
- a break with dmedieval traditions of conventional +
purely decorative drawing.
- landscape as the back ground of a miniature.

Flanders - the corresponing modern regions inclued the
provinces of East + West Flanders in W. Belgium +
the adjacent parts of N France + SW Netherlands

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