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1570. The Secretary Hand (modèle gravé)
London, British Library
Jean de Beauchesne & John Baildon, A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands…, Londres, [1570] 1571, f. D3
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English
Latin
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1570
May 4, 2023, 10:53 p.m.
July 9, 2023, 2:10 p.m.

Le premier manuel d'écriture illustré publié en Angleterre, par le maître écrivain parisien huguenot Jean de Beauchesne et par l'Anglais John Baildon, inconnu par ailleurs. Il est vraisemblable que Beauchesne ait fourni les écritures françaises et italiennes et Baildon les écritures anglaises, dont cette 'secretary hand,' archétype de la cursive d'usage courant dans l'Angleterre élisabéthaine.

The first illustrated writing manual published in England, by the Huguenot Parisian writing master Jean de Beauchesne and the otherwise unknown Englishman John Baildon. It is likely that Beauchesne provided the French and Italian scripts and Baildon the English scripts, including this 'secretary hand', the archetypal cursive commonly used in Elizabethan England.

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The secretarie hande
Learninge is unto a wise mann a jewell of goulde and like an armelet upon
his righte arme, a foolishe mannes soote is soone in his neighbours
howse, but one that hath experience shalbe ashamed at the person of
the mightie, a folle will pepe in at the windowe into the howse but
he that is well nourtured will stande withoute.
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The
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secretarie
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hande
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Learninge
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is
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unto
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a
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wise mann
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a
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jewell
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of
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goulde
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and
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like
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an
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armelet
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upon
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his
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righte
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arme
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,
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a
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foolishe
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mannes
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soote
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is
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soone
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in
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his
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neighbours
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howse
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,
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but
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one
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that
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hath
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experience
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shalbe
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ashamed
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at
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the
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person
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of
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the
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mightie
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,
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a
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folle
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will
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pepe
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in
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at
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the
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windowe
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into
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the
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howse
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but
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he
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that
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is
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well
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nourtured
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will
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stande
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withoute
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