microscript

microscript

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ script.

Noun

microscript (plural microscripts)

1. Very small lettering (especially handwriting), or a handwritten manuscript consisting of such writing.
   • 2005, Christopher Middleton, Speaking to the Rose:

     Impromptu, selfreflexive, and distinctly owlish, the microscript is quite different from the two feuilletons that W. extracted from it for the periodical Sport im Bild.

   • 2014, Ben Lerner, 10:04, p. 216:

     “Do you see this?” he said, holding the pad up to me, which was now largely covered in a kind of microscript.

   • 2016, Andrew Gallix, ‘The Making of Mersault’, Literary Review, November:

     All he had to do was replicate his near-indecipherable microscript, originally developed in response to an acute paper shortage.