Aleph א|| | Bet (letter)>Bet ב | Gimel (letter)>Gimel ג | Dalet>Dalet ד | He (letter)>He ה | Vav (letter)>Vav ו | Zayin>Zayin ז | Heth>Heth ח | Teth>Teth ט | Yodh>Yodh י | Kaph>Kaph כ / ך | |
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Lamedh>Lamedh ל | MemMem מ / ם|| | Nun (letter)>Nun נ / ן | Samekh>Samekh ס | Ayin>Ayin ע | Pe (letter)>Pe פ / ף | Tsade>Tsade צ / ץ | Qoph>Qoph ק | Resh>Resh ר | Shin (letter)>Shin ש | Taw (letter)>Tav ת | |
Figure 3: "Cursive Writing" (Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901-1906).
Column: # Incantation upon Babylonian dish # Egyptian, 12th century. # Constantinople, 1506. # 10th century. # Spanish, dated 1480. # Spanish, 10th century. # Provençal, 10th century. # Italian, 10th century. # Greek, dated 1375. # Italian, dated 1451. # Italian, 10th century. # German, 10th century. # Eleazer of Worms, copied at Rome in 1515 by Elias Levita # Ashkenazi, 19th century.
The brief inscriptions daubed in red ink upon the walls of the catacombs of Venosa are probably the oldest examples of cursive script. Still longer texts in a cursive alphabet are furnished by the clay bowls found in Babylonia and bearing exorcisms against magical influences and evil spirits. These bowls date from the 7th or 8th century, and some of the letters are written in a form that is very antiquated (Figure 3, column 1). Somewhat less of a cursive nature is the manuscript, which dates from the 8th century. Columns 2-14 exhibit cursive scripts of various countries and centuries. The differences visible in the square alphabets are much more apparent. For instance, the Sephardi rounds off still more, and, as in Arabic, there is a tendency to run the lower lines to the left, whereas the Ashkenazi script appears cramped and disjointed. Instead of the little ornaments at the upper ends of the stems, in the letters
The following are the successive stages in the development of each letter: Alef is separated into two parts, the first being written as Image:Image2Letters.jpg, and the perpendicular stroke placed at the left Image:Image3Letters.jpg. By the turn of the 20th century, Ashkenazi cursive had these two elements separated, thus ׀c, and the acute angle was rounded. It received also an abbreviated form connected with the favorite old ligature Image:Image4Letters.jpg, and it is to this ligature of Alef and Lamed that the contracted Oriental Aleph owes its origin (Figure 3, column 7). In writing Bet, the lower part necessitated an interruption, and to overcome this obstacle it was made Image:Image5Letters.jpg, and, with the total omission of the whole lower line, Image:Image6Letters.jpg. In Gimel, the left-hand stroke is lengthened more and more. Dalet had its stroke put on obliquely to distinguish it from Resh; however, since in rapid writing it easily assumed a form similar in appearance to ר, ד in analogy with ב was later changed to Image:Image7Letters.jpg. A transformation very similar to this took place in the cases of final Kaf and of Qof (see columns 2, 5, 11, 14), except that Kaf opened out a trifle more than Qof. The lower part of Zayin was bent sharply to the right and received a little hook at the bottom. The left-hand stroke of Ṭet was lengthened. Lamed gradually lost its semicircle until (as in both Nabataean and Syriac) by the turn of the 20th century, it became a simple stroke, which was bent sharply toward the right. In the modern script today the Lamed has regained its semicircle. Final Mem branches out at the bottom, and in its latest stage is drawn out either to the left or straight down. In Samekh the same development also took place, but it afterward became again a simple circle. In order to write 'Ayin without removing the pen from the surface, its two strokes were joined with a curl. The two forms of the letter Pe spread out in a marked flourish. As to Tsadi the right-hand head is made longer, at first only to a small degree, but later on to a considerable extent. In the beginning Shin develops similarly to the same letter in Nabataean, but afterward the central stroke is lengthened upward, like the right arm of Tsadi, and finally it is joined with the left stroke, and the first stroke is left off altogether. The letters ה, ד, ח, ן, נ, ר, ת, have undergone little modification: they have been rounded out and simplified by the omission of the heads.
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