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... Caroline minuscule , a hand of great beauty and supremely legible , the emergence of which is closely associated with the great religious revival of Charles the Great's reign . Smaller than majuscule writing , it achieved its affect ...
... Caroline minuscule , a hand of great beauty and supremely legible , the emergence of which is closely associated with the great religious revival of Charles the Great's reign . Smaller than majuscule writing , it achieved its affect ...
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... Caroline minuscule . But its triumph was qualified and limited in England by earlier historical developments . The majuscule scripts were , of course , brought into England by Augustine and the other Roman missionaries after the year ...
... Caroline minuscule . But its triumph was qualified and limited in England by earlier historical developments . The majuscule scripts were , of course , brought into England by Augustine and the other Roman missionaries after the year ...
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... Caroline minuscule which was henceforth reserved for Latin books . In the royal charters of the tenth and eleventh centuries - superb specimens of calligraphy - the two scripts appear together : the Latin text written in Caroline , the ...
... Caroline minuscule which was henceforth reserved for Latin books . In the royal charters of the tenth and eleventh centuries - superb specimens of calligraphy - the two scripts appear together : the Latin text written in Caroline , the ...
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RELIGIOUS LIFE AND ORGANIZATION by | 382 |
ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE by G | 439 |
ART by T S R BOASE President of Magdalen College Oxford | 485 |
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