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Handwritten Samples

Below you will find examples of handwritten letters in upper and lower cases. The first set was taken from an Italian records extraction guide found on familysearch.org. Although the second set was taken from Jesús Muñoz y Rivero's Manual de Paleografía Diplomática Española de los siglos XII al XVII, the handwritten letters in Spanish are applicable in both languages. The third set was extracted from original documents. Because many consonants are doubled in Italian, the second set also includes double consonants. Click below on the letter for which you wish to see samples. Click here for additional samples of letters.