Uncial (8703 bytes)
1: ...ered in a majuscule script called "insular half [[uncial]]" because it was in use in the British Isles.]]
2: '''Uncial''' is a [[majuscule]] [[writing system|script]] c...
6: ...d separation, however, is characteristic of later uncial usage.
8: ...century]]. There are over 500 surviving copies of uncial script, by far the largest number prior to the [[...
12: In general, there are some common features of uncial script:

Merovingian script (3695 bytes)
3: ...]]. Each script developed from [[uncial]], [[half-uncial]], and the Merovingian [[charter scripts]]).
5: ...very tall, resembling l; n can be written with an uncial form (similar to a capital N); o is often oval-sh...
9: ...the letter e has a high, open upper loop, and the uncial form of the letter n (resembling majuscule N) is ...
11: ... the Luxeuil a-b type. Other features include the uncial N, with strokes leaning to the left; the letter d...

Visigothic script (1889 bytes)
3: ...and shares many features of uncial, especially an uncial form of the letter g.

Minuscule (1871 bytes)
1: ...t the first minuscule hands developed, the [[half-uncial]]s and cursive minuscule, which no longer stay bo...
7: ...ilinear]] form in the eighth century. Over time, uncial letter forms were increasingly mixed into the scr...

Insular script (2508 bytes)
4: ...ces; Irish insular is sometimes called Irish half-uncial.
8: ...by Irish [[missionary|missionaries]]; previously, uncial script had been brought to England by [[Augustine...

Magdalen papyrus (1536 bytes)
1: ...to emerge towards the end of the 2nd century. The uncial style is epitomised by the later biblical [[Codex...

Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (2427 bytes)
2: ...ible]], the last in the group of the four great [[uncial]] manuscripts of the Greek Bible (see ''[[Codex S...
15: * Hatch, William Henry, ''The Principal Uncial Manuscripts Of The New Testament'', The Universi...

Roman cursive (3757 bytes)
32: ...an cursive influenced the development of not only uncial, but of all the other scripts used in the Middle ...

6th century Italian Gospel Book (British Library, Harley 1775) (2415 bytes)
3: ...d. There are contemporary corrections in slanting Uncial script which employ a Greek syllabification simil...

Pi (letter) (1313 bytes)
8: ...], ''Codex Petropolitanus'', a [[9th century]], [[uncial]] [[codex]] of the [[Gospel]]s, now located in [[...

St. Augustine Gospels (1355 bytes)
4: It is written in an [[Italy|Italian]] [[uncial]] hand which is widely accepted as dating to the ...

Rustic capitals (1485 bytes)
8: ...splay script in titles and headings, along with [[uncial]] as the script of the main text.

Roman square capitals (1578 bytes)
6: ...nd chapter headings while another script, often [[uncial]], was used for the rest of the text.

Lichfield Gospels (4602 bytes)
12: ...[uncial]] characteristics and is thus called semi-uncial. There was a single scribe. The script forms str...

Carolingian minuscule (8342 bytes)
5: The script ultimately developed from [[Roman Half Uncial]] and its [[Roman cursive|cursive version]], whic...
16: ...nuscule letter, rather than the previously common uncial g. Ascenders usually become thicker near the top....
18: ...ly varying letter forms in different regions. The uncial form of the letter a is still used in manuscripts...
22: ...ed, very slender, and slants to the right. It has uncial features as well, such as the ascender of the let...

Ambrosiana Jerome (1677 bytes)
3: ... the [[Bible]] by [[Ulfilas]] written in Gothic [[uncial]], with [[Rustic capitals]] as a display script.

Vienna Genesis (2028 bytes)
5: ...folios and 192 illustrations. It is written in [[uncial]]s with silver ink on calfskin parchment dyed a r...

Illuminated manuscript (4411 bytes)
13: ...ay to cursive scripts such as [[Uncial]] and half-Uncial, especially in the [[British Isles]], where disti...

Omega (2312 bytes)
21: *''Codex Athous Dionysii'', an 8th/9th century [[uncial]] [[Greek language|Greek]] manuscript of the [[Go...

Codex Alexandrinus (2729 bytes)
5: It is written in [[uncial]] script. The text is written in two columns. T...

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