Explore: Minuscule Writing

Greek minuscule was a Greek writing style which was developed as a book hand in Byzantine manuscripts during the 9th and 10th centuries. It replaced the

precise boundary between the majuscule and minuscule periods. The oldest example of minuscule cursive writing that has been discovered is a letter on papyrus

Carolingian minuscule or Caroline minuscule is a script which developed as a calligraphic standard in the medieval European period so that the Latin alphabet

taken by ⟨R⟩. The minuscule form ⟨r⟩ developed through several variations on the capital form. Along with Latin minuscule writing in general, it developed

and smaller lowercase (more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages. The writing systems that distinguish between the upper-

glasses, she finds the phrase "Question 1." on the exam paper in minuscule writing. Blonde realizes that Question 1 refers to the only question asked

Secretary hand Court hand Library hand Blackletter Humanist minuscule Carolingian minuscule Roman cursive Uncial script Insular script Beneventan script

printing. Ligatures were used in the cursive writing style and very extensively in later minuscule writing. There were dozens of conventional ligatures

New York Times called the film "simultaneously epic and precisely minuscule", writing that "it isn't until Badii meets the taxidermist that the film finds

joined-up writing) is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster