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+    Some, if not all, of the subdirectories in the bookhands directory provide a
+series of METAFONT fonts and LaTeX packages for typesetting with the manuscript 
+book-hands that were used during the period from the first century until the 
+invention of printing. 
+
+    Not all of the possible manuscript hands are provided --- they number in
+the hundreds --- but hopefully a representative sample of the more important
+are here. In this context `more important' means that they have been among
+the main ancestors of our modern printing types.
+
+    The series as I have planned it will consist of the following book-hands:
+
+Book-hand                 Century           Subdirectory?
+---------                 -------           -------------
+Square Capitals           1 onwards         sqrcaps
+Roman Rustic              1--6              rustic
+Uncial                    3--6              uncial
+Half Uncial               3--9              huncial
+Artificial Uncial         6--10             auncial
+Insular majuscule         6--9              inslrmaj
+Insular miniscule         6 onwards         inslrmin
+Carolingian minuscule     8--12             carolmin
+Early Gothic              11--12            egothic
+Gothic Textura            13--15            tgothic
+Gothic Prescius           13 onwards        pgothic
+Rotunda                   13--15            rotunda
+Humanist minuscule        14 onwards        humanist
+
+    The proposed subdirectory names are, of course, subject to the agreement 
+of the CTAN maintainers. From time to time I hope to add to the current 
+collection until all are done.
+
+    The file bsamples.ps is a Postscript file which displays samples of each of
+the book-hand fonts that I have developed.
+
+    This distribution is released under the terms of the LaTeX Project
+Public License (LPPL).
+
+    Please note that anyone is welcome to make their own contributions to the
+bookhands directory. It is not mine, although the CTAN maintainers were kind
+enough to create it at my request.
+
+Peter W.
+peter.r.wilson@boeing.com
+22 May 1999
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