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The prevailing script in documents from (and from the land that would eventually become) Portugal from the 8th to the 12th centuries was
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Análise paleográfica de uma escrita de Chancelaria Régia: a letra joanina, 1370–1420
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Notable scribes who wrote mostly on Johannine script include
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are not used (instead, numbers are given in full, or in
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Johannine script is essentially cursive, with a short
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Index


Torre do Tombo National Archives
Lisbon
Portugal
Portuguese
historical style of handwriting
Chancery
John I
Manuel I
chancery hand
blackletter
corpus size
ascenders
descenders
punctuation
Arabic numerals
Roman numerals
overline
superscript
Visigothic script
Carolingian minuscule
Gothic script
John I
Portuguese Interregnum
lettre bâtarde


Análise paleográfica de uma escrita de Chancelaria Régia: a letra joanina, 1370–1420
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