New Data Concerning the Cortesana script, the Name Given to This Graphic Script in the Castilian Court

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  • Blas Casado Quintanilla Departamento de Historia Medieval, UNED

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/etfiii.27.2014.12641

Keywords:

the Castilian «Cortesana» Script, The Letter «ñ» and Others, Abbreviations

Abstract

The graphic forms of the script known as «cortesana» by the Royal Chancery in the fifteenth century caught the attention of Enrique de Villena, an intellectual of that time who attempted to find an explanation to the consonant forms of this alphabet script. He attributed the «convoluted» forms to a strong influence of Moorish culture and a certain manner of holding the quill in the process of writing. Other intellectuals from Castile and León at the end of the fifteenth and the first years of the sixteenth century witnessed the consolidation of certain new letters and observed other characteristics related to the manner of execution of the abbreviations and implemented them in their respective writings.

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2014-06-26

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Casado Quintanilla, B. (2014). New Data Concerning the Cortesana script, the Name Given to This Graphic Script in the Castilian Court. Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie III, Historia Medieval, (27), 193–210. https://doi.org/10.5944/etfiii.27.2014.12641

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