Roman cursive

Form of handwriting used in ancient Rome and to some extent into the Middle Ages
Thing handwriting_style Q1285080
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Roman cursive

Summary

Roman cursive is a handwriting style[1]. It draws 175 Wikipedia views per month (handwriting_style category, ranking #12 of 30).[2]

Key Facts

  • Roman cursive's image is recorded as CursivasRomanas.png[3].
  • Roman cursive's instance of is recorded as handwriting style[4].
  • Roman cursive's subclass of is recorded as ancient Roman script[5].
  • Roman cursive's subclass of is recorded as cursive[6].
  • Roman cursive's writing system is recorded as Latin script[7].
  • Roman cursive's Commons category is recorded as Roman cursive[8].
  • Roman cursive's has part is recorded as old Roman cursive[9].
  • Roman cursive's has part is recorded as later Roman cursive[10].
  • Roman cursive's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/046892[11].
  • Roman cursive's described by source is recorded as Oxford Classical Dictionary (4th rev. ed.)[12].
  • Roman cursive's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/cursive-minuscule[13].
  • Roman cursive's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/Roman-cursive-script[14].
  • Roman cursive's NE.se ID is recorded as romersk-kursivskrift[15].

Why It Matters

Roman cursive draws 175 Wikipedia views per month (handwriting_style category, ranking #12 of 30).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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