CAN YOU READ THESE UNIQUE SIGNATURES?

Many of my students cannot read cursive, almost all of them cannot write in cursive. To give them a sense of my work I ask them to transcribe 19th century manuscripts in Tagalog. When they say the task is difficult, I reply you have not even tried reading documents from the 17th and 18th centuries!

The most complicated 21st century signature [Inset Lower Left] I know was from the late Ludovico D. Badoy, who was Executive Director when I was Chair of t...