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Making sense of old handwriting

Alphabet Charts


Handwritten Samples

Below you will find examples of handwritten letters in upper and lower cases. The first set was taken from Jesús Muñoz y Rivero's Manual de Paleografía Diplomática Española de los siglos XII al XVII, and the second set was extracted from original documents. Because many consonants are doubled in Spanish, the second set also includes double consonants.

Here are some additional ​samples of letters.

A

General/ABC-Chart A-cap1
General/ABC-Chart A-low1
General/ABC-Chart A-low2

B

General/ABC-Chart B-cap1
General/ABC-Chart B-low1
General/ABC-Chart B-low2

C

General/ABC-Chart C-cap1
General/ABC-Chart C-low1
General/ABC-Chart C-cap2
General/ABC-Chart C-low2

D

General/ABC-Chart D-cap1
ABC-Chart D-low1
ABC-Chart D-cap2
ABC-Chart D-low2

E

ABC-Chart E-cap1
ABC-Chart E-low1
ABC-Chart E-cap2
ABC-Chart E-low2

F

ABC-Chart F-cap1
ABC-Chart F-low1
ABC-Chart F-cap2
ABC-Chart F-low2

G

ABC-Chart G-cap1
ABC-Chart G-low1
ABC-Chart G-cap2
ABC-Chart G-low2

H

ABC-Chart H-cap1
ABC-Chart H-low1
ABC-Chart H-cap2
ABC-Chart H-low2

I & J

ABC-Chart I-cap1
ABC-Chart I-low1
ABC-Chart I-cap2
ABC-Chart I-low2

K

ABC-Chart K-cap1
ABC-Chart K-low1

L

ABC-Chart L-cap1
ABC-Chart L-low1
ABC-Chart L-cap2
ABC-Chart L-low2

M

ABC-Chart M-cap1
ABC-Chart M-low1
ABC-Chart M-cap2
ABC-Chart M-low2

N

ABC-Chart N-cap1
ABC-Chart N-low1
ABC-Chart N-cap2
ABC-Chart N-low2

O

ABC-Chart O-cap1
ABC-Chart O-low1
ABC-Chart O-cap2
ABC-Chart O-low2

P

ABC-Chart P-cap1
ABC-Chart P-low1
ABC-Chart P-cap2
ABC-Chart P-low2

Q

ABC-Chart Q-cap1
ABC-Chart Q-low1
ABC-Chart Q-cap2
ABC-Chart Q-low2

R

ABC-Chart R-cap1
ABC-Chart R-low1
ABC-Chart R-cap2
ABC-Chart R-low2

S

ABC-Chart S-cap1
ABC-Chart S-low1
ABC-Chart S-cap2
ABC-Chart S-low2

T

ABC-Chart T-cap1
ABC-Chart T-low1
ABC-Chart T-cap2
ABC-Chart T-low2

U & V

ABC-Chart U-cap1
ABC-Chart U-low1
ABC-Chart U-cap2
ABC-Chart U-low2

X

ABC-Chart X-cap1
ABC-Chart X-low1
ABC-Chart X-cap2
ABC-Chart X-low2

Y

ABC-Chart Y-cap1
ABC-Chart Y-low1

Z

ABC-Chart Z-cap1
ABC-Chart Z-low1
ABC-Chart Z-cap2
ABC-Chart Z-low2

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