roman script

roman script

also called  Antiqua Script,  Italian  Lettera Antica, 

      in calligraphy, script based upon the clear, orderly Carolingian (Carolingian minuscule) writing that Italian humanists mistook for the ancient Roman script used at the time of Cicero (1st century BC). They used the term roman to distinguish this supposedly classical style from black-letter and national hands. It was upon the model of antica, or roman, scripts that Renaissance scribes evolved the varieties of roman and italic, or cursive, styles of handwriting, upon which the corresponding typefaces of Nicolas Jenson (Jenson, Nicolas) and of Aldus Manutius (Manutius, Aldus, the Elder) were patterned. See also italic script. (italic script)

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