Johannine script
Johannine script (Portuguese: letra joanina) was a historical style of handwriting used in the Portuguese Royal Chancery starting around the reign of John I (1385–1433) that was used until the reign of Manuel I (1495–1521). It is, thus, a national variation of chancery hand, a form of blackletter.
Johannine script is essentially cursive, with a short
The prevailing script in documents from (and from the land that would eventually become) Portugal from the 8th to the 12th centuries was Visigothic script; from the mid-12th century onwards, for about a century, Carolingian minuscule and, later on, an incipient Gothic script. From 1385 onwards, that is, after John I was crowned putting an end to the Portuguese Interregnum, there is radical change in the writing style of the documents issued by the Royal Chancery: this new script (first called "Johannine script" by paleographer Eduardo Borges Nunes)[2] has influences of the French lettre bâtarde and Gothic scripts.
Notable scribes who wrote mostly on Johannine script include Álvaro Gonçalves (fl. 1385–1401), Gonçalo Caldeira (fl. 1386–1426), and João de Lisboa (fl. 1388–1431).[1]
References
- ^ a b Ferreira, Ana Cristina Pereira da Silva (2011). Análise paleográfica de uma escrita de Chancelaria Régia: a letra joanina, 1370–1420 (PDF) (M.A.). University of Lisbon. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
- ^ Borges Nunes, Eduardo (1969). Álbum de Paleografia Portuguesa [Album of Portuguese Paleography] (in Portuguese). Vol. I. Instituto de Alta Cultura, Centro de Estudos Históricos.
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