Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- majuscule script
- Based on
- Roman cursive
- Image
- Schriftzug Unziale.svg
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- Commons category
- Uncial
- Commons gallery
- Uncial
- writing system
- Latin script
- inception
- 0200-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:Greek New Testament uncials
- P13411
- Tatenberg
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Encyclopedic overview
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 are the current style for Coptic and Nobiin.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “uncial script” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.