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All the oldest manuscripts are written in uncial, that is, capital letters, the "cursive," or small letters, being of more recent date. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The oldest are written on beautiful parchment, in what are called uncial, or capital letters. From Wordnik.com. [The Canon of the Old and New Testaments Ascertained, or The Bible Complete without the Apocrypha and Unwritten Traditions.] Reference
I'm particularly in love with the uncial font, for some reason. From Wordnik.com. [A to Z: J is for Jacquard] Reference
Its uncial letters are also much larger and plainer than those of the. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
A variety of fonts tagged uncial but which are not necessarily uncial. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
The "Caroline" was in its turn an imitation of the Roman "Half-uncial.". From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples] Reference
Enduring and widely-used, uncial letterforms were not inherently Celtic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
The uncial letters are very small and neat, upright and regular, and their breadth is nearly equal to their height. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
The Alexandrine Codex -- which is placed first on the list of uncial manuscripts, and therefore distinguished by the letter. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
Although not Scottish in origin, uncial letterforms became the basis for early medieval writing styles throughout the British Isles. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
If I had had this idea earlier, I would also have looked at the work of Victor Hammer, who created a number of metal uncial fonts for letterpress printing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
The characters are uncial, but larger than the Vatican manuscript. From Wordnik.com. [Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People] Reference
Eucherius in the Cambridge University Library; other uncial leaves at. From Wordnik.com. [The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17.] Reference
We have scarcely any uncial manuscripts later than the tenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People] Reference
MSS., by the discovery of a large uncial round hand on a papyrus dated. From Wordnik.com. [Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries] Reference
The celebrated Vatican codex in the papal library, the oldest uncial or. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Bible] Reference
A fragment of 12 pages of an uncial manuscript of the early sixth century. From Wordnik.com. [A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York] Reference
The first in uncial Greek was by Tisisthenes, the son to whom the writing was addressed. From Wordnik.com. [She] Reference
Another treasure of ancient times which was once at St. Denis is the sixth-century uncial Greek MS. of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17.] Reference
Sometimes in copying the continuous writing of the uncial manuscripts, mistakes would be made in dividing words. From Wordnik.com. [Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People] Reference
It is a large folio, finely written in a neat minuscule, mainly Saxon hand, with uncial initials in two columns. From Wordnik.com. [Illuminated Manuscripts] Reference
Guided by these general considerations, he would find that his uncial manuscripts naturally fall into two groups. From Wordnik.com. [A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York] Reference
Add that the origin of the mistake is seen, the instant the words are inspected as they must have stood in an uncial copy. From Wordnik.com. [The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels] Reference
Against them are arrayed the whole body of MSS. uncial and cursive, including ACD; every known lectionary; all the Latin, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels] Reference
It was a sixth-century copy of the Book of Genesis, written in uncial letters and illustrated, we are told, with 250 pictures. From Wordnik.com. [The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17.] Reference
With Facsimiles of either face of the Sherd of Amenartas and of the various uncial Greek, Roman, Black-letter, and Early English. From Wordnik.com. [He] Reference
Furthermore, an uncial hand, though clear and regular as in our fragment, is harder to read than a glance at a page of it promises. From Wordnik.com. [A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York] Reference
The manuscripts with which we can compare it come, with scarcely an exception, from Italy; for it is only of more recent uncial manuscripts. From Wordnik.com. [A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York] Reference
Guided by the above manuscripts, we may proceed to determine the place which the Morgan Pliny occupies in the series of uncial manuscripts. From Wordnik.com. [A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York] Reference
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