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Baseline

The imaginary line on which the feet of minims and the bodies of most letters in a script sit.

The imaginary line on which the feet of minims and the bodies of most letters in a script sit. (Note that this may or may not coincide with the ruled line on the page.)

  • French:
    base d'écriture
  • Italian:
    Base della scrittura; Allineamento; Linea mediana di base
  • Portuguese:
    régua; linha de escrita
  • Spanish:
    Renglón;  Línea de escritura

Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007), 263.