Merovingian script or Gallo-Roman script (Latin: Scriptura Merovingica/Francogallica) was a medieval variant of the Latin script so called because it was...
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The Merovingian dynasty (/ˌmɛrəˈvɪndʒiən/) was the ruling family of the Franks from around the middle of the 5th century until Pepin the Short in 751...
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question mark. Beneventan shares some features with Visigothic and Merovingian script, probably due to the common late Roman matrix. The Scriptorium and...
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cursive Uncial script Insular script Beneventan script Visigothic script Merovingian script Archival Skills: Palaeography Types of Script, Harvard's Geoffrey...
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Iberia from North Africa. Visigothic script has many similarities with Beneventan script and Merovingian script. Verona Orational 'Fonts for Latin Paleography:...
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and Germany from the 5th to 8th century AD Merovingian art and architecture Merovingian script Merovingian (The Matrix), a character in the films The...
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Merovingian art is the art of the Merovingian dynasty of the Franks, which lasted from the 5th century to the 8th century in present-day France, Benelux...
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these were the semi-cursive minuscule of Italy, the Merovingian script in France, the Visigothic script in Spain, and the Insular or Anglo-Irish semi-uncial...
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Merovingian illumination is the term for the continental Frankish style of illumination in the late seventh and eight centuries, named for the Merovingian...
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word), and decorate the script with animals and dots ("Insular dotting", often in groups of three). French (that is, Merovingian) uncial uses thin descenders...
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uncial and half-uncial scripts (used for Greek and Latin texts from the 4th to the 9th centuries), first into the Merovingian script (7th–8th century), later...
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of Belley" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Merovingian architecture Merovingian art Merovingian dynasty Merovingian script...
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Calligraphy (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
main monastery of the region (i.e. Merovingian script, Laon script, Luxeuil script, Visigothic script, Beneventan script), which are mostly cursive and hardly...
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Manuscript (section Scripts)
especially where the animal has not been established by testing. Merovingian script, or "Luxeuil minuscule", is named after an abbey in Western France...
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Godescalc Evangelistary (section Text and script)
Carolingian kingdom and this cultural achievement of replacing the Merovingian script was lasting. The Carolingian minuscule was so successful that after...
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Long I (category Latin-script letters)
interfuerit. Bottom: tenentes igitur palestini. Manuscript samples in Merovingian script from ca. AD 700. Top: et inponunt in umeros hominum. Bottom: in synagogis...
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Francia (section Merovingian period)
Gelasian Sacramentary. The Insular influence on the uncial script of the later Merovingian period eventually gave way to the development of the Carolingian...
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ends in the words "et singuli tota". The manuscript is written in Merovingian script on vellum. It has 145 folios. The manuscript has colored initials...
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Elder Futhark (redirect from Elder futhark script)
estimates), some 80,000 inscriptions would have been produced in total in the Merovingian South alone (and maybe close to 400,000 in total, so that of the order...
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Carolingian minuscule (redirect from Carolingian script)
Empire. Traditional charters, however, continued to be written in a Merovingian "chancery hand" long after manuscripts of Scripture and classical literature...
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Roman cursive (category Latin-script calligraphy)
southern Italy, or the Merovingian script in northern France. They also formed part of the basis of the uncial and half-uncial scripts, particularly for the...
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Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024. see calligraphy and Merovingian script Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE Nordenfalk, C. (1995)...
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Palaeography (section List of South Indian scripts)
the Bari type. Merovingian The offshoot of the Roman cursive which developed in Gaul under the first dynasty of kings is called Merovingian writing. It is...
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Blackletter (redirect from Old English script)
script, such as Visigothic, Beneventan, and Merovingian, were also labeled Gothic. This in contrast to Carolingian minuscule, a highly legible script...
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Latin alphabet (category Latin script)
other. This script evolved into a variety of regional medieval scripts (for example, the Merovingian, Visigothic and Benevantan scripts), to be later...
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Franks (section Merovingian kingdom (481–751))
united within the kingdom of the Frank Clovis I, the founder of the Merovingian dynasty. By building upon the basis of this empire, the subsequent Frankish...
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Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (redirect from Serbian Cyrillic script)
the Serbian script, (Српско писмо, Srpsko pismo, Serbian pronunciation: [sr̩̂psko pǐːsmo]), is a standardized variation of the Cyrillic script used to write...
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The Latin script is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world. It is the standard script of the English language and is often referred...
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Corbie Abbey (category Merovingian architecture)
Luynes 1788-1792 : cardinal Étienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne Merovingian script "Monastery of Corbie". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved June 7...
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Letter case (redirect from Bicameral script)
minuscules – a system called unicameral script or unicase. This includes most syllabic and other non-alphabetic scripts. In scripts with a case distinction, lowercase...
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