Uncial script

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.

  1. ^ Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall (1996). Encyclopedia of the Book (2nd ed.). New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press. p. 494. ISBN 1-884718-14-0. LCCN 96007274. OCLC 48110905. OL 21630251M. Retrieved 2025-03-27.
  2. ^ Crystal, David (1995). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. University of Cambridge Press. p. 258. ISBN 0-521-40179-8. OCLC 185322552. Retrieved 2025-03-27.

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