Can Anyone Identify This Script?

[andymcc]

On a recent trip to the Medici chapel in Florence I saw a display with letters that had beautiful handwriting, can anyone identify it please?

What type of writing would I be best trying to learn to mimic this style?

 

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http://i62.tinypic.com/j13nuf.jpg

 

Thanks

[ehemem]

My best guess, without knowing when this was written: late italic morphing into roundhand.

[Randal6393]

An italic hand, done with a blunt, narrow quill. Rapid writing, pen heights greater than the five pen widths of classical italic. Does show the changes by which italic morphed into round hand.

 

Enjoy,

[andymcc]

My best guess, without knowing when this was written: late italic morphing into roundhand.

Thanks

 

An italic hand, done with a blunt, narrow quill. Rapid writing, pen heights greater than the five pen widths of classical italic. Does show the changes by which italic morphed into round hand.

 

Enjoy,

Thank you. I started learning italic but not with the letters joined, maybe I need to go back to it. I was using Lloyd Reynold's book & videos but I never noticed any cursive/joined up text, is there anything that covers that in his course or do I need to look to other courses to be able to write italics joined up?

Thanks again

[ehemem]

Thanks

 

Thank you. I started learning italic but not with the letters joined, maybe I need to go back to it. I was using Lloyd Reynold's book & videos but I never noticed any cursive/joined up text, is there anything that covers that in his course or do I need to look to other courses to be able to write italics joined up?

Thanks again

 

Italic originally was a cursive script, a hybrid of late Italian Carolingian and Italian Mercantile Blackletter Cursive. And it was not a large script: the x-hight was 2 to 3mm. What we call "Formal Italic", Italic written without joins, didn't come about until after the first founts were cut for printing, 80 to 100 years later, IIRC. I have not watched the videos of Reynolds, but he did use a cursive Italic for his handwriting. His book emphasizes learning the proper letter shapes. You might want to look at the books by Getty and Dubay on handwriting - they were Reynolds students, and are both accomplished calligraphers.

[andymcc]

 

Italic originally was a cursive script, a hybrid of late Italian Carolingian and Italian Mercantile Blackletter Cursive. And it was not a large script: the x-hight was 2 to 3mm. What we call "Formal Italic", Italic written without joins, didn't come about until after the first founts were cut for printing, 80 to 100 years later, IIRC. I have not watched the videos of Reynolds, but he did use a cursive Italic for his handwriting. His book emphasizes learning the proper letter shapes. You might want to look at the books by Getty and Dubay on handwriting - they were Reynolds students, and are both accomplished calligraphers.

Thank you ehemem I'll keep learning the proper letter forms from the Reynolds book and look into the Getty & Dubay books to further develop my writing. This history of how the different styles merged/developed is fascinating so thanks also for that information too