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   Ada Palmer (adapalmer@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 16:43:06 JST Ada Palmer

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   Compared w/ many historians, I work on the easiest possible old scripts. Why? My Italian Renaissance classicist dudes copied out the Cicero, Ovid etc. that Italian printers used to first print them, so their handwriting was the basis for the typefaces that evolved into Times New Roman & its ilk 2/?

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     Ada Palmer (adapalmer@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 16:43:07 JST Ada Palmer

     It’s #HandwritingDay so I thought I’d share a thread about Renaissance handwritten documents I worked with in the research that led to “Inventing the Renaissance,” and the best and worst scripts I’ve ever seen. 1/?

     (Continuing countdown to the release of my *absurdly fat* *absurdly orange* book!)

     Joachim repeated this.