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  2. 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.

  3. Western calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    First page of Paul's epistle to Philemon in the Rochester Bible (12th century). A modern calligraphic rendition of the word calligraphy (Denis Brown, 2006). Western calligraphy is the art of writing and penmanship as practiced in the Western world, especially using the Latin alphabet (but also including calligraphic use of the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, as opposed to "Eastern" traditions ...

  4. Medieval literature - Wikipedia

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    Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th, 15th or 16th century, depending on country). The literature of this time ...

  5. Calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Quality writing had a rhythm and regularity to the letters, with a "geometrical" order of the lines on the page. Each character had, and often still has, a precise stroke order. Sacred Western calligraphy has some unique features, such as the illumination of the first letter of each book or chapter in medieval times. A decorative "carpet page ...

  6. History of Western typography - Wikipedia

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    Typography, type-founding, and typeface design began as closely related crafts in mid-15th-century Europe with the introduction of movable type printing at the junction of the medieval era and the Renaissance. Handwritten letterforms of the mid-15th century calligraphy were the natural models for letterforms in systematized typography. [1]

  7. Category:Medieval calligraphers - Wikipedia

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    15th-century calligraphers (3 C, 6 P) I. Calligraphers of the medieval Islamic world (1 C, 6 P) This page was last edited on 22 January 2024, at 01:46 (UTC). ...

  8. Early medieval literature - Wikipedia

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    The bulk of literature in Classical Sanskrit dates to the Early Medieval period, but in most cases cannot be dated to a specific century. The vocalized Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible developed during the 7th to 10th centuries. The Old English Beowulf is dated to anywhere between the 8th and early 11th centuries.

  9. Thuluth - Wikipedia

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    An alternative theory to the meaning is that the smallest width of the letter is one third of its widest part. It is an elegant, cursive script, used in medieval times on mosque decorations. Various calligraphic styles evolved from Thuluth through slight changes of form.