Lietuvos istorijos institutas

The article discusses the autograph of Jonas Radvila, the son of Mikalojus Radvila, the palatine of Vilnius and Grand Chancellor of Lithuania. It considers which cursive script (Gothic or Humanist) the palatine’s son learnt to write in his childhood, how his hand correlates with the autographs of the earlier generation and of his contemporaries from his milieu, how it reflects the trends of the Latin cursive of the time and the daily practices of the use of the Gothic and Gothic cursive script.