Letterforms

Medieval scribes seldom bothered to record when and where they copied a given manuscript. Modern scholars must often rely on paleography–the study of handwriting–to determine a manuscript’s age and its place of origin. The key to this determination is an awareness of regional variations in handwriting and the changes that took place in the script of a given region over time. Paleographers have established the basic historical characteristics of medieval handwriting by carefully examining the few dated and localized examples available.

• 9th Century
• 11th Century
• 13th Century
• 15th Century

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