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Joined letters · secretary hand

C + l

Unit 4occasional

c then l: the pair a dashed d is mistaken for.

Model letter

c + l, typeset in Joscelyn
Typeset in Joscelyn, a modern secretary-hand font

No model letter yet. Ours is being drawn.

In practice lines

Examples of this form are on their way

Don’t confuse it with

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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).