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  2. Category:Medieval scripts - Wikipedia

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    Medieval writing scripts — writing systems used in Medieval manuscripts and other written documents & communications. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.

  3. Carolingian minuscule - Wikipedia

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    Carolingian minuscule alphabet Example from 10th-century manuscript, Vulgate Luke 1:5–8.. Carolingian minuscule or Caroline minuscule is a script which developed as a calligraphic standard in the medieval European period so that the Latin alphabet of Jerome's Vulgate Bible could be easily recognized by the literate class from one region to another.

  4. This US couple bought a 400-year-old Italian tower on a ...

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    After speaking to some locals, he was able to find the owners and set about convincing them to sell him the property. “They met us the next day and we bought the house on a handshake ...

  5. Blackletter - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Blackletter (sometimes black letter or black-letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 until the 17th century. [1]

  6. The Garden of Earthly Delights - Wikipedia

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    The Garden of Earthly Delights (Dutch: De tuin der lusten, lit. 'The garden of lusts') is the modern title [a] given to a triptych oil painting on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old. [1] It has been housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain ...

  7. Crossroads (medieval village) - Wikipedia

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    Crossroads (medieval village) Coordinates: 36°15′S 148°43′E. Crossroads was a medieval-era focused communal site in Australia, established and run by a cooperative. Its aim was to re create a medieval European village on the site, and to establish co-operative style dwellings.

  8. Open-field system - Wikipedia

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    The village of Elton, Cambridgeshire, is representative of a medieval open-field manor in England. The manor, whose Lord was an abbot from a nearby monastery, had 13 "hides" of arable land of six virgates each. The acreage of a hide and virgate varied; but at Elton, a hide was 144 acres (58 ha) and a virgate was 24 acres (10 ha).

  9. Tamil inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    Tamil-Brahmi script Rock-cavern inscription in Jambai village, Tiruvannamalai District, Tamil Nadu, 1st century BCE. It reads "Satiyaputo Atiyan Nedumaan Anjji itta Paali", In (Tamil: ஸதியபுதோ அதியந் நெடுமாந் அஞ்சி ஈத்த பாழி). [24] The meaning of the epigraph may be rendered ...