Below are sample alphabets of the four major scripts used in early modern English-language documents.
To learn more about these scripts, visit the Scripts section under Techniques and Tools.
From "Learning to write the alphabet" by Heather Wolfe at
The Collation: a gathering of scholarship from the Folger Shakespeare Library
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Pay particular attention to the lowercase c, e, h, r, s, u/v, w, and x.
From "Learning to write the alphabet" by Heather Wolfe at
The Collation: a gathering of scholarship from the Folger Shakespeare Library