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The Book of Kells, c. AD 800, is lettered in a script known as "insular majuscule", a variety of uncial script that originated in Ireland. Uncial is a majuscule [1] script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. [2] Uncial letters were used to write Greek and Latin, as ...
Folio 14 recto of the Vergilius Romanus, author portrait of Virgil.. Rustic capitals (Latin: littera capitalis rustica) is an ancient Roman calligraphic script. Because the term is negatively connoted supposing an opposition to the more 'civilized' form of the Roman square capitals, Bernhard Bischoff prefers to call the script canonized capitals.
Gaelic type (sometimes called Irish character, Irish type, or Gaelic script) is a family of Insular script typefaces devised for printing Early Modern Irish. It was widely used from the 16th century until the mid-18th century in Scotland and the mid-20th century in Ireland, but is now rarely used.
Insular script was used not only for Latin religious books, but also for every other kind of book, including vernacular works. Examples include the Book of Kells , the Cathach of St. Columba , the Ambrosiana Orosius , the Durham Gospel Fragment , the Book of Durrow , the Durham Gospels , the Echternach Gospels , the Lindisfarne Gospels , the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Uncial script; V. Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift; ... This page was last edited on 2 October 2020, ...
Lombardic capitals is the name given to a type of decorative uppercase letter used in inscriptions and, typically, at the start of a section of text in medieval manuscripts. [1] They are characterized by their rounded forms with thick, curved stems. Paul Shaw describes the style as a "relative" of uncial writing. [2]
Codex Claromontanus, symbolized by D p, D 2 or 06 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 1026 , is a Greek-Latin diglot uncial manuscript of the New Testament, written in an uncial hand on vellum. The Greek and Latin texts are on facing pages, thus it is a " diglot " manuscript, like Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis .
A minim is the basic stroke for the letters i, m, n, and u in uncial script and later scripts deriving from it. Parts of other letters are based on minims as well: when a minim is extended above the line, it becomes an ascender , as in the letters d and b, and when it is extended below the line, it becomes a descender , as in the letters p and q.