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palaeography
thumb|upright=1.3|right|Shakespeare's will|William Shakespeare's will, written in [[secretary hand]]
ligature
glyph resulting from the orthographic combination or calligraphic ornementation of two or more basic letter forms into a single typographic or handwritten character
Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
official script of Serbian language
blackletter
Blackletter (also black letter or sometimes black-letter; sometimes popularly known as Gothic minuscule or Gothic type) was originally a medieval book hand (Textualis or Textura) of the Gothic family of scripts, later adapted into typefaces and still used in modern calligraphy and typesetting.
uncial script
writing system for Greek and Latin
Đ
variant of the letter D, used in Sami alphabets, Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet, and Vietnamese
codicology
thumb|upright=1.5|Reims gospel codex (book)
Vindolanda tablets
Roman writing tablets found in England
Old Italic
group of similar ancient pre-Roman alphabets used on the Italian peninsula (Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, South Picene, North Italic, Venetic, etc.)
Roman cursive
Form of handwriting used in ancient Rome and to some extent into the Middle Ages
Ƕ
thumb|100px|Form of the Gothic letter|class=skin-invert-image thumb|right|Some words with Hwair, in Joseph Wright (linguist)|Joseph Wright's [[Grammar of the Gothic Language (1910)|class=skin-invert-image]] Hwair (also , , ) is the name of , the Gothic letter expressing the or sound (reflected in English by the inverted wh-spelling for ). Hwair is also the name of the Latin ligature (capital ) used to transcribe Gothic.
homeoteleuton
Homeoteleuton, also spelled homoeoteleuton and homoioteleuton (from the Greek , homoioteleuton, "like ending"), is the repetition of endings in words. Homeoteleuton is also known as near rhyme.
rustic capitals
majuscule Latin book hand with prominent serifs
manicule
The manicule, , is a typographical mark with the appearance of a hand with its index finger extended in a pointing gesture. It is typically used to draw the reader's attention to a certain part of a text. In older texts, it had a broader variety of uses including indicating section headers, marginal notes, and terms for cross-reference. The term manicule was derived from the Latin manicula, or 'little hand', though it has been known by many other names, often related to its various functions, including fist, index, and pointer.
scribal abbreviation
abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in Latin, and later in Greek, Old Norse and other European languages
Roman square capitals
ancient Roman style of writing
history of the Latin alphabet
aspect of history
Phaistos Disc
Unicode block (U+101D0-101FF)
history of the Arabic alphabet
aspect of history
Pre-Christian Slavic writing
hypothesized writing system
history of the Greek alphabet
aspect of history
Konstantinos Simonides
Greek paleographer (1820–1890)
Antiqua-Fraktur dispute
typographical dispute in 19th- and early 20th-century Germany
Ulrich Friedrich Kopp
German jurist (1762-1834)
History of the Armenian alphabet
Bath curse tablets
collection of Roman era curse tablets
coronis
textual symbol
Skoropis
thumb|upright=1.5|Letter of commendation from Ivan the Terrible|Ivan IV Vasilyevich to the [[Solovetsky Monastery (1539)]]
tau gallicum
Latin letter d with short stroke overlay (Ꟈ/ꟈ)
diple
symbol used in margins of Greek manuscripts to draw attention to something in text
apex
Latin and Middle Vietnamese diacritic similar to an acute accent
Ural pictograms
pictograms of Finno-Ugric origin in the Ural region
Bloomberg tablets
Ancient tablets
Codices Latini Antiquiores
catalogue of all surviving manuscripts in Latin
Archaeographic Commission
fragmentology
study of manuscript fragments