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Formal Text
Italic Hand
Chancery
Bastard Secretary
Secretary
Common Pleas

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A New Newe Booke of Copies

With the advent of printing at the end of the fifteenth century the medieval penman's skills were not needed for such work and so they turned their attentions to the teaching of writing which, by the mid sixteenth century, had spread to the middle classes in the form of the secretary and humanist italic hands.

Every writing master would own a collection of exemplars of common hands (both book and court) for teaching purposes. A Newe Booke of Copies is one such a collection, collated and published by Thomas Vautroullier in 1574. It was a printed book containing:

divers sorts of sundry hands, as the English and French secretarie, and Bastard Secretarie, Italian, Roman, Chancery and Court hands. Set forth by the most Excellent Wryters of sayd hands for the instruction of the vnskilfull.

Only one copy of the book has survived and currently resides in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

A New Newe Booke of Copies is Crazy Diamond Design's revision of this sixteenth century book. Extrapolating from the original designs, and with reference to historically-contemporaneous documents, we have produced six high quality typefaces for Apple Macintosh and PC computers.

The typefaces are provided in modern and ancient forms with an extensive range of historical characters, and are packaged sumptuously in a leather-effect slip case, with leather-bound manual printed on parchment-style paper and to the same dimensions as the original.

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£75