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Ukrainian skoropys

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Form of Ukrainian handwriting
Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's letter to tsar Alexis
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 handwriting script that was widely used in Zaporozhian Cossack documents (in particular of the Cossack Hetmanate) in the 16th to 18th centuries. "Skoropys" means "fast-writing style" in Ukrainian.

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References

  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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