Roman Imperial Capitals
Inscription on Trajan's Column
Roman Square Capitals
Virgil's Aeneid fragment
Uncial
The Harley Gospels Harley MS 1775
St Cuthbert Gospel of St John (Stonyhurst Gospel) Add MS 89000
Vespasian Psalter Cotton MS Vespasian A I
De Trinitate Bibliothèque Nationale de France MS. Lat. 2630
Half-Uncial
The Book of Kells
The Lindisfarne Gospels
Caroline minuscule
Look at the versals in Recueil d'homelies, Z 13—excellent exemplars/templates for your own work
The Moutier-Grandval Bible, Tours, France, c 830-c 840. Round letters are wider than tall. British Library Add MS 10546
Cod. Sang. 557, St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, St. Gallen, c 880-890. Round letterforms are circular.
Ramsey Psalter, England, late 10th century. The historical basis for Edward Johnston's slanted pen letters (Foundational hand). Also known as Winchester Psalter. British Library Harley MS 2904
Textura quadrata
Donatus's Ars Minor. Vatican Library Pal. lat. 1811
The Zwolle Bible: 001v, 003v-004r, 062v-063r
Rutland Psalter, c. 1260. British Library MS 62925
Breviary of Renaud de Bar, Metz c. 1302-1304. Verdun, Bibliothéque Muncipale, MS 0107
Pontifical of Renaud de Bar, France c. 1300-1316. A rounded style of Textura Quadrata. National Library of the Czech Republic XXIII.C.120
The Metz Pontifical, c. 1303-1316, made for Renaud de Bar, Bishop of Metz. The manuscript is unfinished and shows illuminatons that have been drawn, but not yet painted. Rounded Textura
Gorleston Psalter, 1310-1324. British Library MS 49622
Macclesfield Psalter, c. 1330. Fitzwilliam Museum.
Malmesbury Bible, Belgium c. 1407 1 2
Bedford Psalter and Hours, 1414-1422. Rich illuminations and miniature paintings. British Library MS Add 42131
Ottheinrich Bible, Germany c. 1425-1430. Bavarian State Library Cgm 8010
A collection of 14 different sets of specimen initials or letters in alphabetical order in Gothic script of the 15th century, 1475-1525. British Library MS 88887
Bock scribal pattern book, a model book for scribes, c. 1510-1517. Beinecke MS 439
Sherbrooke Missal, NLW MS. 15536E
De Grey Book of Hours, NLW MS 15537C
Graduel de Saint-Mihiel, Z 73
Doffinnes Hours, W.185
Missal of Eberhard Von Greiffenklau, W.174
Book of Hours, Use of Augustinian Canons of Windesheim Chapter, W.172
Flemish Book of Hours W.270
Textura prescisus
Fieschi Psalter, W.45. Very well written versals.
East Anglian Psalter, W.79
Bastard secretary
Secretary Hand Examples with translations
De Consolatione Philosophiae, Peniarth MS 393D
Brogyntyn MS ii.1, (English Miscellany)
Batarde
The Battles of Alexander the Great, Peniarth MS 481D
The Vaux Passional, Peniarth MS 482D
Flemish Book of Hours, W.194
Book of Hours of the Family de la Porte, W.433
Cicero's "De Amicitia" (French Translation), W.312
Fraktur
Prayer Book of Emperor Maximilian I
Fraktur sample by Leonhard Wagner (A possible creator of Fraktur.)
An example of Johann Neudörffer's hand (A prominent German writing master.)
Title page from The Adventures of the Knight Theuerdank
Rotunda
A few pages from the Colonna Missal
Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.A.47 in the Vatican Library
Humanist
Pal. lat. 890, Sallustius Crispus, Gaius, Opera
Pal. lat. 875, Livius, Titus, Ab Urbe condita (Decas I)
Pal. lat. 41, Manettus, Iannotius, Psalterium de hebraica veritate in latinum translatum
Pal. lat. 876, Livius, Titus, Ab Urbe condita (Decas III)
Pal. lat. 879, Livius, Titus, Ab Urbe condita (Decas III)—not the same book as above
Pal. lat. 880, Livius, Titus, Ab Urbe condita (Decas IV)
Pal. lat. 915, Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
Pal. lat. 1602, Manetti, Giannozzo, Sammelhandschrift
Italic (Chancery)
Certification of Arms and Genealogical Treatise, W.736
Juan de Yciar
Franciso Lucas
G. Hercolani, 1571
Bernadino Cataneo 1 2 3 4
Foundational
Sample
Engrosser's Script
The Zanerian Manual
