book-hand

The table shows, in formal book-hand shape, all the letters that were commonly used in the West-lands in the Third Age.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

The Greek type of Aldus was a new departure, based on the cursive or business handwriting of his day in distinction from the older book-hand which had served as the model for the first Greek fonts.

Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name

In particular, although from about 1050 to the reformation the writing employed in the papal chancery did not noticeably differ from the ordinary book-hand familiar throughout Christendom, the engrossers of papal bulls, even after the sixteenth century, went on using an archaic and very artificial type of writing known as scrittura bollatica, with manifold contractions and an absence of all punctuation, which was practically undecipherable by ordinary readers.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Had the introduction of printing been preceded by a revival of the beautiful Greek book-hand of the eleventh century, similar to the revival of the Caroline minuscules, all would have been well.

A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901