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Merovingian script sample from an evangelary internally dated to AD 754, from F. Steffens's Lateinische Paläographie (1929): ego hacse jnperitus gundohinus poscen- / te fulculfo monacho et si non ut dibui / psaltjm ut ualui a capite usque ad sui con[summacionis finem...]

Merovingian script or Gallo-Roman script (Latin: Scriptura Merovingica/Francogallica) was a medieval variant of the Latin script so called because it was developed in Gaul during the Merovingian dynasty. It was used in the 7th and 8th centuries before the Carolingian dynasty and the development of Carolingian minuscule.

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Merovingian script

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Merovingian script or Gallo-Roman script (Latin: Scriptura Merovingica/Francogallica) was a medieval variant of the Latin script so called because it was...

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Merovingian dynasty

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The Merovingian dynasty (/ˌmɛrəˈvɪndʒiən/) was the ruling family of the Franks from around the middle of the 5th century until 751. They first appear...

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Visigothic script

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Iberia from North Africa. Visigothic script has many similarities with Beneventan script and Merovingian script. Verona Orational 'Fonts for Latin Paleography:...

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A

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these were the semi-cursive minuscule of Italy, the Merovingian script in France, the Visigothic script in Spain, and the Insular or Anglo-Irish semi-uncial...

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Beneventan script

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question mark. Beneventan shares some features with Visigothic and Merovingian script, probably due to the common late Roman matrix. The Scriptorium and...

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Merovingian art and architecture

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Merovingian art is the art of the Merovingian dynasty of the Franks, which lasted from the 5th century to the 8th century in present-day France, Benelux...

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Calligraphy

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main monastery of the region (i.e. Merovingian script, Laon script, Luxeuil script, Visigothic script, Beneventan script), which are mostly cursive and hardly...

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Manuscript

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especially where the animal has not been established by testing. Merovingian script, or "Luxeuil minuscule", is named after an abbey in Western France...

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Merovingian illumination

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Merovingian illumination is the term for the continental Frankish style of illumination in the late seventh and eight centuries, named for the Merovingian...

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Long I

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interfuerit. Bottom: tenentes igitur palestini. Manuscript samples in Merovingian script from ca. AD 700. Top: et inponunt in umeros hominum. Bottom: in synagogis...

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Roman cursive

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century, such as the Visigothic script in Spain, the Beneventan script in southern Italy, or the Merovingian script in northern France. They also formed...

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List of Merovingian monasteries

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of Belley" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Merovingian architecture Merovingian art Merovingian dynasty Merovingian script...

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Italic script

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Italic script, also known as chancery cursive and Italic hand, is a semi-cursive, slightly sloped style of handwriting and calligraphy that was developed...

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Spread of the Latin script

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uncial and half-uncial scripts (used for Greek and Latin texts from the 4th to the 9th centuries), first into the Merovingian script (7th–8th century), later...

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Carolingian minuscule

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Empire. Traditional charters, however, continued to be written in a Merovingian "chancery hand" long after manuscripts of Scripture and classical literature...

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Palaeography

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the Bari type. Merovingian The offshoot of the Roman cursive which developed in Gaul under the first dynasty of kings is called Merovingian writing. It is...

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Uncial script

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word), and decorate the script with animals and dots ("Insular dotting", often in groups of three). French (that is, Merovingian) uncial uses thin descenders...

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Trier Gospels

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was an unknown Frankish person appeared to be a disciple which used Merovingian script and art for the ornamental initial. Most of the major initials, drawings...

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Franks

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northern part of what is now France. He and his son Clovis I founded the Merovingian dynasty which succeeded in unifying most of Gaul under its rule during...

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Corbie

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Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023. see calligraphy and Merovingian script Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE Nordenfalk, C. (1995)...

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Elder Futhark

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estimates), some 80,000 inscriptions would have been produced in total in the Merovingian South alone (and maybe close to 400,000 in total, so that of the order...

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Godescalc Evangelistary

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Carolingian kingdom and this cultural achievement of replacing the Merovingian script was lasting. The Carolingian minuscule was so successful that after...

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Francia

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post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe. It was ruled by the Frankish Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties during the Early Middle Ages. Francia was among...

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History of the Latin script

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The Latin script is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world. It is the standard script of the English language and is often referred...

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Latin alphabet

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other. This script evolved into a variety of regional medieval scripts (for example, the Merovingian, Visigothic and Benevantan scripts), to be later...

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Letter case

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minuscules – a system called unicameral script or unicase. This includes most syllabic and other non-alphabetic scripts. In scripts with a case distinction, lowercase...

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Blackletter

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Visigothic, Beneventan, and Merovingian, were also labeled Gothic. This in contrast to Carolingian minuscule, a highly legible script which the humanists called...

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