This new book by Malcolm Parkes makes a fundamental contribution to
the history of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that
has always allowed individual scribes the opportunity for
self-expression, despite the limitations of the pen and the finite
number of possible movements.The purpose of this study is to focus
on the writing of scribes from late antiquity to the beginning of
the sixteenth century, and to identify those features which are a
scribe's personal contribution to the techniques and art of
handwriting. The book opens with three chapters surveying the
various environments in which scribes worked in the medieval West.
The following five, based on the author's Lyell Lectures at the
University of Oxford, then examine different aspects of the
subject, starting with the basic processes of handwriting and
copying. Next come discussions of developments in rapid
handwriting, with its consequent influence on new alphabets; on
more formal 'set hands'; and on the adaptation of movements of the
pen to produce elements of style corresponding to changes in the
prevailing sense of decorum. The final chapter looks at the
significance of some customized images produced by handwriting on
the page. The text is illustrated with 69 plates, and accompanied
by a glossary of the technical terms applied to handwriting, which
in itself makes a significant contribution to the subject.
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