Direc­tory tex-archive/fonts/bookhands

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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 1^st cen­tury un­til Guten­berg and Cax­ton. The in­cluded hands are:Square Cap­i­tals (1^st cen­tury on­wards);Ro­man Rus­tic (1st–6^th cen­turies);In­su­lar Mi­nus­cule (6^th cenury on­wards);Carolin­gian Mi­nus­cule (8th–12th cen­turies);Early Gothic (11th–12th cen­turies);Gothic Tex­tura Quadrata (13th–15^th cen­turies);Gothic Tex­tura Prescisus vel sine ped­ibus (13th cen­tury on­wards);Ro­tunda (13–15^th cen­turies);Hu­man­ist Mi­nus­cule (14^th cen­tury on­wards);Un­cial (3rd–6^th cen­turies);Half Un­cial (3rd–9^th cen­turies);Ar­ti­fi­cial Un­cial (6th–10^th cen­turies); andIn­su­lar Ma­jus­cule (6th–9^th cen­turies).