Insular script is a medieval script system originating in Ireland that spread to England and continental Europe under the influence of Irish Christianity...
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letters such as ⟨f⟩, ⟨l⟩, ⟨t⟩ and ⟨s⟩). Insular uncial (not to be confused with the separate Insular script) generally has definite word separation,...
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Insular G (majuscule: Ᵹ, minuscule: ᵹ) is a form of the letter g somewhat resembling an ezh, used in the medieval insular script of Great Britain and Ireland...
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Gaelic type (redirect from Celtic script)
(sometimes called Irish character, Irish type, or Gaelic script) is a family of Insular script typefaces devised for printing Early Modern Irish. It was...
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Scottish Gaelic (section Insular script)
'son') rather than Brythonic MAB (cf. modern Welsh mab 'son'). The Insular script was used both in Ireland and Scotland but had largely disappeared in...
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The letter Ꞅ (minuscule: ꞅ) is an Insular script form of the letter S. The uppercase is encoded in Unicode at U+A784 [1], and the lowercase is encoded...
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Blackletter (redirect from Old English script)
which predates blackletter by many centuries and was written in the insular script or in Futhorc. Along with Italic type and Roman type, blackletter served...
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uncial and the Luxeuil type, but was also similar to half-uncial and insular script, with elements of Roman cursive. It is sometimes called "eN-type", as...
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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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Carolingian minuscule (redirect from Carolingian script)
written in Rhaetian minuscule tend to have slender letters, resembling Insular script, with the letters ⟨a⟩ and ⟨t⟩, and ligatures such as ⟨ri⟩, showing similar...
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common. This sense of the term as Insular (relating to one or more islands) derives from the phrase Insular script, first cited by the OED in 1908, though...
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parochial Insular may also refer to: Insular Chile Insular region of Colombia Insular Ecuador, administratively known as Galápagos Province Insular Region...
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in insular script as a typeface choice that needs no separate coding. U+A786 Ꞇ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR T and U+A787 ꞇ LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR T...
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Lindisfarne Gospels (section Insular context)
was made in 1852. The text is written in insular script, and is the best documented and most complete insular manuscript of the period. An Old English...
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including ⟨g⟩ instead of insular G, ⟨s⟩ instead of insular S and long S, and others which may differ considerably from the insular script, notably ⟨e⟩, ⟨f⟩ and...
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Yogh (category Latin-script letters)
Latin script letter that was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y (/j/) and various velar phonemes. It descends from the Insular G, the...
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the 8th century. This was replaced by Insular script, a cursive and pointed version of the half-uncial script. This was used until the end of the 12th...
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Ampersand (category Latin-script letters)
ampersand, to the right, is originally a later et-ligature Et ligature in Insular script Example of ampersand based on a crossed epsilon, as might be handwritten...
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illuminated manuscript gospel book in insular script (minuscule), with large illuminated initials in the Insular style. This is a very late Anglo-Saxon...
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18th century. Insular script used a minuscule which retained two downward strokes, but which did not close the loop, known as the Insular r ⟨ꞃ⟩; this variant...
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language family that belongs to the Goidelic languages and further to Insular Celtic, and is indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the majority...
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Gaelic script may refer to: Insular script used in Ireland Gaelic type, based on Insular script This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of...
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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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Irish variations, and other matter, written in Insular script, and richly illustrated in the style of Insular art with four full-page Evangelist symbols,...
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introduced by the Gregorian and Irish missions gradually developed into the Insular scripts' ⟨⟩. These Old English Latin alphabets supplanted the earlier runes...
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The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the...
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copy himself. Matthews did not know Old English or the manuscript's insular script, and so copied what he saw, not always rendering correctly; Thorkelin...
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replaced the insular script that had been used for Old English. However, because of the significant difference in appearance between the old insular g and the...
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