Figure 1.

Medieval scripts. The handwriting of a 13th-century scribe known as ‘The Tremulous Hand of Worcester’ shows features consistent with essential tremor.³ There is a fine amplitude tremor of regular frequency, no micrographia, and the letters with long vertical sections such as ‘h’ and ‘þ’ (black boxes) demonstrate an 8–2 o’clock unidirectional tremor axis. (Detail of MS. Junius 121, fol. vi recto. The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford).