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Bastarda or bastard was a blackletter 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 lettre bâtarde passed out of use by the mid-16th century, but the German variety developed into the national Fraktur type, which remained in use until the mid-twentieth century.

British typeface designer Jonathan Barnbrook has designed a contemporary interpretation titled Bastard.

See also

• Asemic writing
• Blackletter
• Book hand
• Calligraphy
• Chancery hand
• Court hand (also known as common law hand, Anglicana, cursiva antiquior, or charter hand)
• Cursive
• Hand (writing style)
• Handwriting
• History of writing
• Italic script
• Law hand
• Palaeography
• Penmanship
• Ronde script (calligraphy)
• Rotunda (script)
• Round hand
• Secretary hand

References

1. Febvre, Lucien; Martin, Henri-Jean (1976). The Coming of the Book : The Impact of Printing 1450-1800. London: Verso. p. 79.
2. Derolez, Robert (2003). The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-521-80315-1. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
3. A.F. Johnson, Type designs, their history and development. Third edition. (London: 1966) pp. 21–23

External links

• Fonts for Latin Palaeography, A comprehensive PDF file containing 82 pages profusely illustrated. January 2024.

• Gothic Calligraphy Workbooks

v t e Types of handwritten European scripts
Ancient and medieval	Roman Rustic Uncial Visigothic Merovingian Carolingian Insular script Beneventan Blackletter Rotunda Bastarda Georgian Greek Early Cyrillic Ustav Poluustav Serbian Cyrillic Bosančica Glagolitic Angular Court hand Lombardic
Modern	Cursive Chancery Johannine Humanist Italic Round Secretary Library Technical lettering Copperplate Spencerian Ronde Kurrent Russian cursive Skoropis (Ukrainian skoropys) Shorthand
Teaching scripts	Barchowsky Fluent Handwriting D'Nealian Getty-Dubay Italic Grundschrift Palmer Sütterlin Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift Zaner-Bloser

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• Western calligraphy
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