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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.
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 .
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.
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This exhibition gave him his first interest in lettering. Zapf bought two books there, using them to teach himself calligraphy. He also studied examples of calligraphy in the Nuremberg city library. Soon, his master noticed his expertise in calligraphy, and Zapf's work shifted to retouching lettering and improving his colleagues' retouching.
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 ...
The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), containing a portions of the text of Gospel of Matthew on 32 parchment leaves (sixed 27 cm by 20 cm), with numerous gaps. The manuscript itself is a palimpsest (a manuscript with the initial text washed off, and then written over again with a different text), currently consisting of 110 ...