Capital letter-only writing system in Greek and Latin
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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 well as Gothic, and are the current style for Coptic and Nobiin.
^Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall. (1996) Encyclopedia of the Book. 2nd edn. New Castle, DE, and London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, p. 494. ISBN 1884718140
^The Cambridge Encyclopedia of The English Language. Ed. David Crystal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. p. 258.
Uncial is a majuscule script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Uncial letters...
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translation, mostly of Byzantine authors. The Cyrillic script is derived from the Greek uncialscript letters, augmented by ligatures and consonants from...
Merovingian script: the monasteries of Luxeuil, Laon, Corbie, and Chelles. Each script developed from uncial, half-uncial, and the Merovingian charter scripts. The...
half-uncialscript of the Latin alphabet introduced by Irish Christian missionaries from around the 8th century. This was replaced by Insular script, a...
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cursive script had developed that used slanted, interconnected glyphs and many ligatures. From the mid-9th century AD onwards, the uncialscript was replaced...
Panayotakis, Nicolaos M. (1996). "A Watershed in the History of Greek Script: Abolishing the Polytonic". In Macrakis, Michael S. (ed.). Greek Letters:...
the second and third centuries the uncial lettering style developed. As writing withdrew to monasteries, uncialscript was found more suitable for copying...
the classical forms were the uncialscript, a development of the Old Roman cursive, and various so-called minuscule scripts that developed from New Roman...
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needed] Greek majuscule (9th–3rd century BCE) in contrast to the Greek uncialscript (3rd century BCE – 12th century CE) and the later Greek minuscule Roman...
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but they continued to be used as a display script in titles and headings, along with uncial as the script of the main text. Rustic capitals are similar...
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(minuscule) half-uncialscript of the Latin alphabet introduced by Irish Christian missionaries. This was replaced by Insular script, a cursive and pointed...
new glyph variants for Ε were introduced through handwriting. In the uncialscript (used for literary papyrus manuscripts in late antiquity and then in...
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Perì hylēs iatrikēs in the original Greek) by Pedanius Dioscorides in uncialscript. It is an important and rare example of a late antique scientific text...
case Letter case Roman square capitals Shift key Small caps Unicase Uncialscript Ilene Strizver (2011). "ALL CAPS: To set or not to set?". Fonts.com...
century. The earliest form of Cyrillic was the ustav, based on Greek uncialscript, augmented by ligatures and letters from the Glagolitic alphabet for...
English were written using a runic script. By the 6th century, a Latin alphabet was adopted, written with half-uncial letterforms. It included the runic...
Trever of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), who compared the script in the scrolls to that of the Nash Papyrus, the oldest biblical manuscript...
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