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A copperplate script is a style of calligraphic writing most commonly associated with English Roundhand. Although often used as an umbrella term for various forms of pointed pen calligraphy, Copperplate most accurately refers to script styles represented in copybooks created using the intaglio printmaking method .
The Sohgaura copper plate inscription is an Indian copper plate inscription written in Prakrit in the Mauryan period Brahmi script. [1] It was discovered in Sohgaura, a village on the banks of the Rapti River, about 20 km south-east of Gorakhpur, in the Gorakhpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India. [2]
Arthur Malcolm Stace (9 February 1885 – 30 July 1967), [1] known as Mr Eternity, was an Australian soldier.He was an alcoholic from his teenage years until the early 1930s, when he converted to Christianity and began to spread his message by inscribing the word "Eternity" in copperplate writing with yellow chalk on footpaths and doorsteps in and around Sydney, from Martin Place to Parramatta ...
Spencerian script was developed in 1840 and began soon after to be taught in the school Spencer established specifically for that purpose, in doing so replacing a form of Copperplate script, English roundhand, which was the most prominent script being taught in America. He quickly turned out graduates who left his school to start replicas of it ...
There is a steady evolution in the script over the centuries, and last of the scripts, for example the Kanai-boroxiboa inscription using a proto-Assamese script. [3] The script in this period is called the Kamarupi script , which continues development as the Medieval Assamese script from the 13th to the 19th century and emerges as the modern ...
Copperplate (or copper-plate, copper plate) may refer to: Any form of intaglio printing using a metal plate (usually copper), or the plate itself Engraving; Etching; Copperplate script, a style of handwriting and typefaces derived from it; Copperplate Gothic, a glyphic typeface designed by Frederic Goudy in 1901
The Dubi copperplate inscription are the inscriptions of a grant issued by Bhaskaravarman of Kamarupa. This is the earliest of all copper plate grants issued by Kamarupa kings discovered so far. [1] This was an issue after an earlier charter, issued by Bhutivarman, was destroyed. [2]
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (Filipino: Sulat na inukit sa binatbat na tanso sa Laguna) is an official acquittance (debt relief) certificate inscribed onto a copper plate in the Shaka year 822 (Gregorian A.D. 900). It is the earliest-known, extant, calendar-dated document found within the Philippines. [1]