Ukrainian skoropys
Form of Ukrainian handwriting
Ukrainian skoropys (Ukrainian: український скоропис) or Cossack skoropys (Ukrainian: козацький скоропис) is a type of Cyrillic calligraphic handwriting that was widely used in Zaporozhian Cossack documents (in particular of the Cossack Hetmanate) in the 16th to 18th centuries.[1] "Skoropys" means "fast-writing style" in Ukrainian.[2]
See also
- Skoropis
- Ukrainian Baroque
References
- ^ (Каманин И.М.) Палеографический Изборник. Материалы по истории южно-русского письма в XV-XVIII вв., изданные Киевской Комиссией для разбора древних актов. Вып. 1. Archived 2022-03-08 at the Wayback Machine Киев, 1899.
- ^ Natalia Semchynska-Uhl. Semiotic Aspects of Stanislaw Semchynsky's Biography of Petro Mohyla, 2006
External links
Media related to Ukrainian skoropys at Wikimedia Commons
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Types of handwritten European scripts
and medieval
- Roman
- Rustic
- Uncial
- Visigothic
- Merovingian
- Carolingian
- Insular script
- Beneventan
- Blackletter
- Rotunda
- Bastarda
- Georgian
- Greek
- Early Cyrillic
- Ustav
- Poluustav
- Bosančica
- Glagolitic
- Court hand
- Lombardic
- Cursive
- Chancery
- Johannine
- Humanist
- Italic
- Round
- Secretary
- Library
- Technical lettering
- Copperplate
- Spencerian
- Ronde
- Kurrent
- Russian cursive
- Skoropis (Ukrainian skoropys)
- Shorthand
