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Thomas Aquinas possessed famously illegible handwriting

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The greatest theological mind of the thirteenth century wrote like a panicked toddler. His personal script was notoriously so horrific and completely unreadable that the church had to hire specialized decoders just to figure out what his brilliant manuscripts actually said.

Thomas Aquinas possessed famously illegible handwriting
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