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Definition of Minuscules
1. minuscule [n] - See also: minuscule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minuscules
Literary usage of Minuscules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guide to the Manuscripts, Autographs, Charters, Seals, Illuminations and by British Museum Dept. of Manuscripts, George Frederic Warner (1906)
"Written in fine minuscules Written in minuscules, in the 10th century. Vellum.
... Written in large and rather widely spaced minuscules by Theophanes, ..."
2. The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters by ISAAC. TAYLOR (1883)
"The Latin alphabets, like the Greek, are divided into four styles — Capitals,
Uncials, Cursives, and minuscules. The earliest codices, especially the ..."
3. The Parchments of the Faith by George Edmands Merrill (1894)
"XV THE CURSIVES OR minuscules IN an earlier chapter (IX. ... The second class is
composed of cursives or minuscules, written in a current, small letter. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Many of these minuscules have never been fully studied. ... Only those minuscules
interest the text-critic which are distinctive of or akin to one of the ..."
5. A Companion to School Classics by James Gow (1893)
"minuscules.—Our oldest specimens of Greek consist mostly of inscriptions on stone,
in which angular forms of letters are preferred, because rounded letters ..."
6. Scotland: Documents and Records Illustrating the History of Scotland, and by Great Britain Exchequer, Francis Palgrave, Great Britain Record Commission (1837)
"... save only as to the introduction of the headings, dates, fyc., and as to the
substitution of capitals for minuscules when required, and vice versa. ..."
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