Humanist handwriting in the MS?

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I don't think anyone would interpret the marginalia (which is Gothic script) for a humanist hand, so I must admit I simply assumed the humanist reference was to the VMS main text and I further assumed the reference was based on the spacing (which is wider and less connected in Italic and humanist handwriting than in Gothic handwriting).

Several of the VMS glyph forms are Gothic rather than humanist. The VMS main-text spacing, however, is closer to humanist than to Gothic but!!!...


...I don't think we can base any categorization of the VMS main-script on the spacing because more discrete letters are extremely common to invented scripts and cipher scripts (and some forms of Book-Hand scripts).

I mentioned Glagolitic and missionary-designed scripts upthread (before it was split) because they have these properties—they are more widely spaced and less connected (the glyphs are more discrete) than scripts that have evolved over time to have cursive properties (even humanist scripts soon turned into more connected and fluid cursive scripts).