Ascript orhandwriting script is a formal, generic style of handwriting (as opposed to personal handwriting), within awriting system. Ahand may be a synonym or a variation, a subset of script.^[1]

There is a variety of historical styles in manuscript documents,^[2] Some of them belonging tocalligraphy,^[3] whereas some were set up for better readabiliy, utility or teaching (teaching script).^[4] seeHistory of the Latin script.

Historic styles of handwriting may be studied bypalaeography.

Personal variations and idiosyncrasies in writing style departing from the standard hand, which may for example allow the work of a particularscribe copying or writing amanuscript to be identified, are described by the termhandwriting (or hand).

• Chancery hand
• Round hand
• Secretary hand
• Court hand
• Library hand
• Blackletter
• Humanist minuscule
• Carolingian minuscule
• Roman cursive
• Uncial script
• Insular script
• Beneventan script
• Visigothic script
• Merovingian script

• Florey, K.B. (2013).Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting. Melville House.ISBN 978-1-61219-305-2. Retrieved2024-06-16.
• Douglas, A. (2017).Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840. Oxford Textual Perspectives. OUP Oxford.ISBN 978-0-19-250621-4. Retrieved2024-06-16.
• Thornton, T.P. (1996).Handwriting in America: A Cultural History. Yale University Press.ISBN 978-0-300-07441-3. Retrieved2024-06-16.

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