Ukrainian skoropys

Ivan Mazepa's quote written in skoropys on a 10 hryvnia banknote

Ukrainian skoropys (Ukrainian: український скоропис) or Cossack skoropys (Ukrainian: козацький скоропис) is a type of Cyrillic calligraphic handwriting that was widely used in Zaporozhian Cossack documents (in particular of the Cossack Hetmanate) in the 16th to 18th centuries.^[1] "Skoropys" means "fast-writing style" in Ukrainian.^[2]

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^ (Каманин И.М.) Палеографический Изборник. Материалы по истории южно-русского письма в XV-XVIII вв., изданные Киевской Комиссией для разбора древних актов. Вып. 1. Archived 2022-03-08 at the Wayback Machine Киев, 1899.
^ Natalia Semchynska-Uhl. Semiotic Aspects of Stanislaw Semchynsky's Biography of Petro Mohyla, 2006

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[1] (Каманин И.М.) Палеографический Изборник. Материалы по истории южно-русского письма в XV-XVIII вв., изданные Киевской Комиссией для разбора древних актов. Вып. 1. Archived 2022-03-08 at the Wayback Machine Киев, 1899.

[2] Natalia Semchynska-Uhl. Semiotic Aspects of Stanislaw Semchynsky's Biography of Petro Mohyla, 2006

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v t e Types of handwritten European scripts
Ancient and medieval	Roman Rustic Uncial Visigothic Merovingian Carolingian Insular script Beneventan Blackletter Rotunda Bastarda Georgian Greek Early Cyrillic Ustav Poluustav Bosančica Glagolitic Angular Court hand Lombardic
Modern	Cursive Chancery Johannine Humanist Italic Round Secretary Library Technical lettering Copperplate Spencerian Ronde Kurrent Russian cursive Skoropis (Ukrainian skoropys) Shorthand
Teaching scripts	Barchowsky Fluent Handwriting D'Nealian Getty-Dubay Italic Grundschrift Palmer Sütterlin Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift Zaner-Bloser

Ukrainian skoropys

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