insular script

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Noun

insular script (plural insular scripts)

  2. (palaeography) A medieval script originating in 7th-century Ireland, derived from the semi-uncial and the New Roman cursive scripts
    • 1912, W[allace] M[artin] Lindsay, “The Abbreviation-Symbols of ergo, igitur”, in Paul Schwenke, editor, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen begründet von Otto Hartwig, Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, page 61:
      A St. Bertin MS. of Augustine's Letters, now at Boulogne […] , written in Insular script of the same century, seems to have transcribed many of its abbreviation-symbols mechanically from a very early original
    • 1913, F[rederick] W[illiam] Hall, “Emendation” (chapter 7), in A Companion to Classical Texts‎[1], Oxford, Confusion of similar letters in Latin - P, R, page 162:
      In Ammian. ⅹⅹ. 3. 1 secuturos thecanno VM: for secuto post haec anno; the original error must have been secutoros, with the confusion of P and R common in reading the insular script.

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