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Letter s · secretary hand

Tailed sigma s

Unit 2common

Sigma s whose tail is thrown high and back over the letter.

Model letter

McKerrow (1927), fig. 22, no. 8 · public domain

In practice lines

Every round s below was checked by hand. They are not yet sorted by form, so some show another round s.

“was”
“divers”
“his”
“wayes”
“Cornutus”
“Comodities”
“is”
“vertuous”

Practice lines drawn in period hands

Don’t confuse it with

Practise this letter Unit 2 · Round s, and where each s goes
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Other forms of s

Model letters: R. B. McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography (1927); Jean de Beauchesne & John Baildon, A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands (1570 and 1581); Giovambattista Palatino, Libro nel qual s’insegna a scrivere (1550); and manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library; all public domain. They stand in until Leo’s own model letters are drawn. Secretary letters typeset in Joscelyn by Peter S. Baker (SIL Open Font License).