Talk:Humanist minuscule

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A fact from Humanist minuscule appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 February 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that humanist minuscule handwriting, invented in the fifteenth century in Italy, was based on Carolingian minuscule, which Renaissance humanists took to be ancient Roman?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/February.

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Spelling?[edit]

I believe lettera antiqua should be littera antiqua (Latin) or lettera antica (Italian), no? My references all use littera antiqua (as earlier in this article in the plural, litterae antiquae).

Also, is this the same as "Roman bookhand"? Other articles in Wikipedia use that term and perhaps should be linked to this one. - PKM (talk) 04:56, 2 February 2011 (UTC) (enthusiastic amateur but by no means an expert on this subject)[reply]

litterae antiquae (plural) should be correct and lettera antiqua (inserted here) looks like a misspelling to me. @Wetman: can you confirm if that is the case? --Neitram (talk) 09:43, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The gothic hand violated three principles[edit]

"For Petrarch the gothic hand violated three principles: writing, he said, should be simple (castigata), clear (clara), and orthographically correct."

@Wetman: I have trouble understanding the last point. What does orthographical correctness have to do with handwriting style (gothic or other script)? --Neitram (talk) 09:39, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]