Uncial script
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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 script （written entirely in capital letters） commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes.
Uncial letters were used to write Greek and Latin, as well as Gothic and Coptic.
Simplified relationship between various scripts, showing the development of uncial from Roman and Greek uncial.
Early uncial script most likely developed from late rustic capitals.
Early forms are characterized by broad single-stroke letters using simple round forms taking advantage of the new parchment and vellum surfaces,
as opposed to the angular, multiple-stroke letters, which are more suited for rougher surfaces, such as papyrus.
In the oldest examples of uncial, such as the fragment of De bellis macedonicis in the British Library, of the late 1st-early 2nd century, all of the letters are disconnected from one another, and word separation is typically not used.
Word separation, however, is characteristic of later uncial usage.
As the script evolved over the centuries, the characters became more complex.
Specifically, around AD 600, flourishes and exaggerations of the basic strokes began to appear in more manuscripts.
Ascenders and descenders were the first major alterations, followed by twists of the tool in the basic stroke and overlapping.
By the time the more compact minuscule scripts arose circa AD 800, some of the evolved uncial styles formed the basis for these simplified, smaller scripts.
Uncial was still used, particularly for copies of the Bible, tapering off until around the 10th century.
There are over 500 surviving copies of uncial script, by far the largest numbe...
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