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Lombardic capitals is the name given to a type of decorative uppercase letter used in inscriptions and, typically, at the start of a section of text in medieval manuscripts. [1] They are characterized by their rounded forms with thick, curved stems. Paul Shaw describes the style as a "relative" of uncial writing. [2]
Typeface Family Spacing Weights/Styles Target script Included from Can be installed on Example image Aharoni [6]: Sans Serif: Proportional: Bold: Hebrew: XP, Vista
An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations.Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers and liturgical books such as psalters and courtly literature, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws ...
[13] [f] Thus, the additional ligatures that are required for Fraktur typefaces will not be encoded in Unicode: support for these ligatures is a font engineering issue left up to font developers. [14] There are, however, two sets of Fraktur symbols in the Unicode blocks of Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, and Latin Extended-E.
Insular G, a shape of the Latin letter G once used in Ireland and Great Britain Insular R. In digital typography, the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI) is a project which aims to coordinate the encoding and display of special characters in medieval texts written in the Latin alphabet or in runes, [1] which are not otherwise encoded as part of Unicode.
The font in Winchester Cathedral – the "most famous" of the Tournai fonts in England [14] – illustrates scenes from the life of St Nicholas of Myra on two faces, with three roundels of birds on the third and a roundel of a quadruped with birds on either side on the fourth. [14] It is the only font in the cathedral, and is located in the nave.
A scriptorium (/ s k r ɪ p ˈ t ɔːr i ə m / ⓘ) [1] was a writing room in medieval European monasteries for the copying and illuminating of manuscripts by scribes. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The term has perhaps been over-used—only some monasteries had special rooms set aside for scribes.
Insular script is a medieval script system originating in Ireland that spread to England and continental Europe under the influence of Irish Christianity.Irish missionaries took the script to continental Europe, where they founded monasteries, such as Bobbio.