Below are sample alphabets of the four major scripts used in early modern English-language documents.
To learn more about these scripts, visit the Hands section under Techniques and Tools.
From "Round hand script" at brittanica.com
From "Learning to write the alphabet" by Heather Wolfe at
The Collation: a gathering of scholarship from the Folger Shakespeare Library
From "Learning to write the alphabet" by Heather Wolfe at
The Collation: a gathering of scholarship from the Folger Shakespeare Library
For further practice with Secretary hand, visit rycote.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
Pay particular attention to the lowercase c, e, h, r, s, u/v, w, and x.