#vintage #handwriting #history #question
I would love to see styles of antiquated handwriting, to model.
People used to be so good at writing, because writing by hand used to be important and meaningful.
I am probably most interested in examples from 11th to 17th century.
The sweet spot in the middle would be 14th century, but there were amazing examples all through this span!
So what I really would love is... access to resources that are hundreds of thousands of sorted images, or everything a specific scribe or writer ever did compiled cleanly in a high quality pdf,
and like hundreds of thousands of those.
Possibly entire digitised libraries of antiquated hand written books or papers from historical documents?
Can anyone point out some references like this that are high quality and expansive?
I am not against resources in multiple languages either. Handwriting is so cool.
Thank you!
edit: there may be collected letters, official historical documents from court systems in public facing collections, original scans of the books, notebooks, letters, and writings of scribes and authors that are long dead, which could suit my interests! If you have any leads, please let me know!
Especially scans from personal journals, notebooks, and manuscripts when possible!
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