• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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