Handwriting script
A script or handwriting script is a formal, generic style of handwriting, within a writing system. A hand may be a synonym or a variation, a subset of script.
There is a variety of historical styles in manuscript documents, Some of them belonging to calligraphy, whereas some were set up for better readability, utility or teaching. see History of the [Latin script].
Historic styles of handwriting may be studied by palaeography.
Personal variations and idiosyncrasies in writing style departing from the standard hand, which may for example allow the work of a particular scribe copying or writing a manuscript to be identified, are described by the term handwriting.