I need a good hand for 16th century writing, and thus started gathering this list of letter forms and copybooks available online:
Excerpts from A booke containing divers hands (1550-1602) including Italic and Secretary letter forms. [Columbia University Library has also digitized the title page.]
Incomplete alphabets derived from 16th-18th century sources (Italic, Secretary, and Chancery hands)
The Pens Excellency (1618) includes the forms for Secretary hand (pgs 13-14); Bastard-Secretary or Text (p.18); Roman (p.21); Italian (p.24); Court (p.28); Chancery (p.29); as well as the Greek (p.30) and Hebrew (p.31) alphabets.
The Pen-mans Recreation (1673)
The Paul's Scholar's Copy Book (1709)
Round Text. A new copy-book (1712)
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