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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.
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]
It developed from uncial script, and shares many features of uncial, especially an uncial form of the letter g . Evolution from Visigothic Zet Ꝣ to modern Ç Other features of the script include an open-top a (very similar to the letter u ), similar shapes for the letters r and s , and a long letter i resembling the modern letter l .
The Corbie type as used in the 8th century, was based on uncial and the Luxeuil type, but was also similar to half-uncial and insular script, with elements of Roman cursive. It is sometimes called "eN-type", as the letter e has a high, open upper loop, and the uncial form of the letter n (resembling majuscule N ) is very frequently used.
A drawing and photographed carving by Eric Gill of the "Trajan" capitals on the Column of Trajan. Roman square capitals, also called capitalis monumentalis, inscriptional capitals, elegant capitals and capitalis quadrata, are an ancient Roman form of writing, and the basis for modern capital letters.
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 .
The great uncial codices or four great uncials are the only remaining uncial codices that contain (or originally contained) the entire text of the Bible (Old and New Testament) in Greek. They are the Codex Vaticanus in the Vatican Library , the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Alexandrinus in the British Library , and the Codex Ephraemi ...
There are a variety of historical styles in manuscript documents, [2] Some of them belonging to calligraphy, [3] whereas some were set up for better readabiliy, utility or teaching (teaching script). [4] see History of the Latin script. Historic styles of handwriting may be studied by palaeography.