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

The author is Peter R. Wilson.

License: lppl Catalogued: 2006-12-29

- Visit
  - Visit a nearby CTAN:/fonts/bookhands. If this fails, try Cambridge.
  - Visit Cambridge:/fonts/bookhands
- Download
  - Download from a nearby CTAN (automatically identified).
  - Download from Cambridge.
- Documentation
  - Read documentation for this package from: README.PRW.
  - Read documentation for this package from: bsamples.ps.
- Distributions
  - This package is included in TeX Live.
  - This package is included in MikTeX.