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bookhands

A collection of book-hand fonts.

This is a set of book-hand (MetaFont) fonts and packages covering manuscript scripts from the 1st century until Gutenberg and Caxton. The included hands are:
Square Capitals (1st century onwards);
Roman Rustic (1st–6th centuries);
Insular Minuscule (6th cenury onwards);
Carolingian Minuscule (8th–12th centuries);
Early Gothic (11th–12th centuries);
Gothic Textura Quadrata (13th–15th centuries);
Gothic Textura Prescisus vel sine pedibus (13th century onwards);
Rotunda (13–15th centuries);
Humanist Minuscule (14th century onwards);
Uncial (3rd–6th centuries);
Half Uncial (3rd–9th centuries);
Artificial Uncial (6th–10th centuries); and
Insular Majuscule (6th–9th centuries).

The author is Peter R. Wilson.

License: lppl Catalogued: 2008-01-03