Older Roman italics
The older Roman cursive or Majuskelkursive (rarely Capitalis Cursiva ) is a cursive variant of the ancient Roman Capitalis typeface family.
Like all other variants of the Capitalis fonts is the capital cursive purely majuscule ( Versalschrift ). It was the everyday font for business documents and has come down to us in some papyri from the period between the 1st and 4th centuries.
The so-called “ b à panse gauche”, the b with the belly to the left, is typical of the older Roman cursive . In everyday use, the letters changed to arched shapes with long loops in the upper and lower zones, until an italic three-zone script ( minuscule ) developed from it ( younger Roman italics ).
Very fleeting notes were written on wax tablets . The Roman cursive was adapted to this writing material by changing the letters and thus became wax tablet writing .
literature
- Bernhard Bischoff : Palaeography of Roman antiquity and the Western Middle Ages (= basics of German studies. 24). 2nd, revised edition. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-503-02253-8 , pp. 85-89.
- Ahasver von Brandt : tool of the historian. An introduction to the historical auxiliary sciences (= Kohlhammer-Urban-Taschenbücher. Vol. 33). 16th edition, with updated literature supplements and an afterword by Franz Fuchs . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-17-017996-9 , p. 74.