Ukrainian skoropys

Ukrainian skoropys (Ukrainian: український скоропис) or Cossack skoropys (Ukrainian: козацький скоропис) is a type of Cyrillic handwriting script that was widely used in documents of the Cossack Hetmanate in the 16th to 18th centuries.^[1] "Skoropys" means "fast-writing style" in Ukrainian.^[2]

Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's letter to tsar Alexis

Ivan Mazepa's quote written in skoropys on a 10 hryvnia banknote

See also

• Skoropis
• Ukrainian Baroque