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Like the Gothic + Roman alphabets, the 3rd great family of Types had its origins
in the writings of the scribes. The italic + the Gothic Schwabacher, which
serves as a kind of italic to Franktur (as black letter 's known in Germany)
both had their genesis in the fast, informal, cursive letters developed by chancellory clerks to speed their work.

standard in the 16th C, begins to make its appearance in
the last decade of the 15th. (its incidence marks the beginning of the 'modern' era of writing.)

p.39 From 1480 onwards an increasing number of books
were written in the humanistic cursive or italic; and by
1500 it had effectively displaced the antica or roman.
It became difficult to find scribes who could write antica
well - due to the spread of printing & the decline of
patronage.

p.40 - with the 16th C. the script of humanism became
'Everyman's craft.' - The medium of polite correspondence

- cancellaresca corsiva or letters de brevi: chancery
cursive, or brief script. (Tagliente, Arrighi, Scalzini)

p.42 to Rome belongs at best half the credit for the
diffusion throughout Christendom at the humanistic
cursive by means of the papal brief (Leo X 1512-21)

- Lastly it was Lodovico, called Vicentino, Arrighi's
(1522-Operina) part to confer upon the script the
permanence & the ubiquity of print.

[Inserted] Chancery script is by definition, the writing, not necessarily
numanistic, or cursive, used in a chancery [end insertd]
- Chancery - that dept. or office of an administrative or
legislative body concerned to the dispatch, & to some extent
also to the receipt & filling og letters. There were chanceries
all over Italy. A brief is a special kind of papal
letter whose origin has been traced to the ponlificate
of Boniface IX (1389-1404) In 1522 papal briefs were
being written, in common to the then established usage of
other chanceries, in a variant of the humanistic cursive
or italic, hence the name chancery cursive.

- printing which killed writing as a trade, favored
its development as an art.

p.38 "that clement which Mr. Hewitt (Handwriting, London, 1938 p96)
judged to be the basis of a trace cursive - a systematic
running line-"

Like the Gothic + Roman alphabets, the 3rd great family of Types had its origins
in the writings of the scribes. The italic + the Gothic Schwabacher, which
serves as a kind of italic to Franktur (as black letter 's known in Germany)
both had their genesis in the fast, informal, cursive letters developed by chancellory clerks to speed their work.

standard in the 16th C, begins to make its appearance in
the last decade of the 15th. (its incidence marks the beginning of the 'modern' era of writing.)

p.39 From 1480 onwards an increasing number of books
were written in the humanistic cursive or italic; and by
1500 it had effectively displaced the antica or roman.
It became difficult to find scribes who could write antica
well - due to the spread of printing & the decline of
patronage.

p.40 - with the 16th C. the script of humanism became
'Everyman's craft.' - The medium of polite correspondence

- cancellaresca corsiva or letters de brevi: chancery
cursive, or brief script. (Tagliente, Arrighi, Scalzini)

p.42 to Rome belongs at best half the credit for the
diffusion throughout Christendom at the humanistic
cursive by means of the papal brief (Leo X 1512-21)

- Lastly it was Lodovico, called Vicentino, Arrighi's
(1522-Operina) part to confer upon the script the
permanence & the ubiquity of print.

[Inserted] Chancery script is by definition, the writing, not necessarily
numanistic, or cursive, used in a chancery [end insertd]
- Chancery - that dept. or office of an administrative or
legislative body concerned to the dispatch, & to some extent
also to the receipt & filling og letters. There were chanceries
all over Italy. A brief is a special kind of papal
letter whose origin has been traced to the ponlificate
of Boniface IX (1389-1404) In 1522 papal briefs were
being written, in common to the then established usage of
other chanceries, in a variant of the humanistic cursive
or italic, hence the name chancery cursive.

- printing which killed writing as a trade, favored
its development as an art.

p.38 "that clement which Mr. Hewitt (Handwriting, London, 1938 p96)
judged to be the basis of a trace cursive - a systematic
running line-"