Hello, there!
I am trying to ID the particular font that was (handwritten by two different scribes) on the original Winchester Manuscript of Malory’s Arthurian Legends. Like I said, late 15th century england. I am not even remotely knowledgable on the subject of fonts, but this is partly why I recently joined - I would like to know what this general type is considered.
Thanks!
Here are a couple of pics:
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Although it’s not type or a font, I believe this is an example of Bastarda. I’m not really an expert on hand-written styles, so let’s see what the others say.
- Lex
Yep. One of the very few quality renditions of that style: St Augustin Civilité (part of H&FJ’s Historical Allsorts).
Another – brandnew – one: Givry by Tom Grace.
Funny, a quite similar request at typografie.info (a german forum)
http://www.typografie.info/typoforum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=5861
scroll down the thread for links and pictures
Some links from there
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/glc/1475-bastarde-manual/normal/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/glc/1420-gothic-script/normal/
http://www.pia-frauss.de/fonts/ww.htm
http://www.pia-frauss.de/fonts/xn.htm
All very cool. Thanks folks!
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