Paleography
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Efforts to make letters ornate led to the development of black letter, no longer in use except...are said to have been suggested by the handwriting of Petrarch. As the Spencerian script...it, so one skilled in the history of handwriting can often assign a place and a date...