Seal script

Chinese characters for the words 'seal script' in regular script (left) and seal script (right).

Seal script (Chinese: Simplified: 篆书 ;Traditional: 篆書; pinyin: zhuànshū) is an ancient style of Chinese calligraphy.

Books

Chén Zhāoróng (陳昭容) Research on the Qín (Ch'in) Lineage of Writing: An Examination from the Perspective of the History of Chinese Writing (秦系文字研究﹕从漢字史的角度考察) (2003). Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology Monograph (中央研究院歷史語言研究所專刊). ISBN 957-671-995-X. (in Chinese)
Qiú Xīguī (裘錫圭) Chinese Writing (2000). Translation of 文字學概要 by Gilbert L. Mattos and Jerry Norman. Early China Special Monograph Series No. 4. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. ISBN 1-55729-071-7.

Seal script on the tomb of Li Jingxun, 608 CE.
Small seal script epigraph on the standard weight prototype of Qin dynasty. Made from iron, this prototype was unearthed in 1973 at Wendeng, Shandong Province.
Edict of the second Qin emperor, in seal script. In the popular history of Chinese characters, the small seal script is traditionally considered to be the ancestor of the clerical script

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