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Bastarda or bastard was a blackletter
Blackletter (sometimes black letter or black-letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 until the 17th century. It continued to be commonly used for ...
script used in France, the Burgundian Netherlands and Germany during the 14th and 15th centuries. The Burgundian variant of script can be seen as the court script of the Dukes of Burgundy. The particularly English forms of the script are sometimes distinguished as Bastarda Anglicana or Anglicana.
The first Bastarda type was based on the Chancellery manuscript hand which was in use mainly in manuscripts in vernacular languages. Early printers produced local versions of the script in typeface. These varied in design as regional versions which were used especially to print texts in the vernacular languages, more rarely for Latin texts. The earliest bastarda type was produced by the German Gutenberg in 1454–55. The main variety was the one used in France, which was also found in Geneva, Antwerp and London. Another local variety was found in the Netherlands; Caxton's first types were a rather poor copy of this. The French ' passed out of use by the mid-16th century, but the German variety developed into the national ' type, which remained in use until the mid-twentieth century.A.F. Johnson, ''Type designs, their history and development''. Third edition. (London: 1966) pp. 21–23
British typeface designer Jonathan Barnbrook
Jonathan Barnbrook (born 1966) is a British graphic designer, film maker and typographer. He trained at Saint Martin's School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, both in London.
Work
Barnbrook designed the cover artwork of David Bowie's ...
has designed a contemporary interpretation titled Bastard.
See also
* Asemic writing *Blackletter
Blackletter (sometimes black letter or black-letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 until the 17th century. It continued to be commonly used for ...
* Book hand
* Calligraphy
* Chancery hand
* Court hand (also known as common law hand, Anglicana, cursiva antiquior, or charter hand)
*Cursive
Cursive (also known as joined-up writing) is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block letters. It varies in functionality and m ...
* Hand (writing style)
* Handwriting
* History of writing
* Italic script
* Law hand
* Palaeography
* Penmanship
* Ronde script (calligraphy)
* Rotunda (script)
* Round hand
* Secretary hand
References
External links
Fonts for Latin Palaeography
A comprehensive PDF file containing 82 pages profusely illustrated. January 2024.
Gothic Calligraphy Workbooks
{{European calligraphy Medieval scripts Western calligraphy Blackletter