[jacquej]

I noticed the extra stroke, or the very heavy stroke on the T's, and one other intital letter, and wondered what that meant. It looked as if he had gone over the crossbar on the top twice, and hope someone might have some insight as to what that might mean.

It would seem to me, a real amatuer, that the downhill writing would indicate someone who wasn't used to writing from right to left. The spacing between the individual letters was a bit wide, also, reminding me of the wide spacing that appears in Arabic writing...

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Without trying to stay in line, i.e. follow a rule on a page of paper, just write a simple sentence. If you are right handed, your line will curve slightly down, if you are left handed it will curve slightly up. The spacing is odd, but I beleive that's because he was trying to disguise his writing. Most likely he held the pencil near the top instead of the bottom and wrote each letter individually instead of writing it quickly. This gives the boxy, sloppy look that the letters have.