Brigham Young University, Department of History and the Center for Family History & Genealogy
Script tutorial: making sense of old handwriting
Designed to introduce you to the various hands used between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries in much of the English-speaking world

Folgerpedia
Resource List
Alphabet Abbreviations

Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
School
Lexicon
Manuscripts

Lancaster University
How to Describe Scripts

National Archives, UK – University College London
Palaeography: reading old handwriting 1500 – 1800
A practical online tutorial

University of Cambridge
CERES COPIA
English Handwriting 1500–1700, an online course
Dating and Describing Hands
Early Modern Handwriting: Alphabets
Materials: Inks, Pens, and Surfaces
Select Bibliography

University of Leicester
Anglo-Norman

Wikipedia
Scribal abbreviations