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ductus: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

● anchor · a standalone construct Nearest construct by meaning·not indexed
ductus1 CONSTRUCTDuctus (script)STROKE · ORDER

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Palaeography

The manner and order of pen strokes

In palaeography ductus is the way a scribe forms letters: the number, order, and direction of the individual strokes, and the overall movement and character of the hand. It is central to dating and localising a script and to telling one scribe from another. Bischoff's Latin palaeography treats the ductus of scripts as evidence of how and when they were written. The referent is the dynamic trace of handwriting, sharing only its Latin root with the anatomical duct.[1]

Unit
Not applicable (the manner of forming strokes)
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Inferred from stroke sequence, direction, and pen behaviour in the written trace

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References

  1. Bischoff, B. (1990). Latin palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages (D. Ó Cróinín & D. Ganz, Trans.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521367264

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