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	Minuscule Alphabetic Glyphs
		Minuscule "f," similar to tall "s" but with a short horizontal stroke orginating within the vertical stroke; only very rarely does this horizontal become a true "crossing-stroke" by protruding beyond the left edge of the vertical stroke; sometimes, however, it is so short as to be almost swallowed within the vertical stroke.
		Minuscule "o," composed of two more-or-less semi-circular strokes originating near the center-point of the top of the letter and terminating near the centre-point at the base-line.
		The scribe's minuscule "v," distinguished from the "u," which is formed from two minims, by its slanted left stroke, which often begins with a hook, frequently has a leftward-convex curve, and in any case forms a rounded base to the glyph at the minim baseline.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~scriptor/cotton/transcription/minuscule.htm (1533 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kra-(letter) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cyrillic letter Ka (К, к) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /k/.
		The letter E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet.
		In linguistics, a diaeresis or dieresis (AE) (from Greek diairein, to divide) is the modification of a syllable by distinctly pronouncing one of its vowels.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kra_%28letter%29 (1656 words)

	PALAEOGRAPHY - LoveToKnow Article on PALAEOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		For the letters of the papyrus period were not cast in finished moulds, while the uncial writing and the minuscule writing of the middle ages were settled literary hands.
		Indeed, the only letter which departs essentially from the lapidary character of the alphabet is the omega, here a half-cursive form but still retaining the principle of the structure of the old horse-shoe letter and quite distinct from the co-shape which was soon to be developed.
		The general breadth of the square letters, the smallness of the letters composed of circles and loops, and the particular formation of such letters as p1 and the clipped omega, are repeated.
	33.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PALAEOGRAPHY.htm (19997 words)

	Kinetic Calligraphy > Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Built-up letters: Letters that are outlined and filled, or constructed one section at a time.
		Minim height: The height of a minuscule letter, excluding the ascender and descender.
		Minuscule scripts contain letters of uneven height because of the ascenders and descenders.
	www.four09.org /mercer/protosite6/glossary/index.shtml (318 words)

	Carolingian Minuscule Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Clear capital letters and spaces between words — norms we take for granted — became standard in Carolingian minuscule, which was one result of a campaign to achieve a culturally unifying standardization across the Carolingian Empire.
		The letter d often appears in an uncial form, with an ascender slanting to the left, but the letter g is essentially the same as the modern minuscule letter, rather than the previously common uncial g.
		Indeed 'Carolingian minuscule' is a style of typographic font, which approximates this historical hand, eliminating the nuances of size of capitals, long descenders, etc..
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Carolingian_minuscule (1234 words)

	Expert About mi:Minuscule
		Minuscule, or lower case, is the smaller form of letters (in the Roman alphabet : a, b, c,.
		The development of Caroline Minuscule, or Carolingian minuscule, was a reform which increased the uniformity, clarity and legibility of handwriting.
		Caroline minuscule was not adopted in England until the 10th century when it was associated with the reform of Benedictine monasticism.
	expertsite.biz /dir/mi/minuscule.htm (1385 words)

	Greek Paleography Glossary
		Minuscule MSS from the mid-13th to mid-5th centuries and the invention of printing in the West.
		At first only the pure minuscule forms were used, but within a century, uncial letter forms began to be used alongside the pure minuscule (modern type fonts reflect both sources).
		To begin with, minuscule was written on the ruled lines of parchment, but later the fashion was to have the letters "hanging" from the line.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/byz/paleoggloss.html (2794 words)

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		The abbreviation sign, which does not always touch the letter, is a clockwise curl that is quite variously shaped, but often breaks slightly at mid-point to teminate in a rightward scooping flag.
		Minuscule "t" surmounted (to the right and not touching the "t" component) with a sign consisting of two curved strokes shaped like modern "c," forming what resembles a minuscule single-lobed "a." This sign is equivalent to Cappelli's "linea ondulata" (See Adriano Cappelli, Lexicon abbreviaturarum, 6th.
		Minuscule "t" surmounted by a small minuscule letter "u," above and slightly right of center of the main part of the glyph, and not touching it.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~scriptor/cotton/transcription/abbreviations.htm (1236 words)

	Italic Handwriting -- letterform characteristics and construction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Chancery cursive minuscule letter bodies should be formed within an imaginary right sloping oblong -- the body width being about half of the body height -- with ascenders and descenders about the same length as the letter body height.
		Note in particular that the letter "t" is not much taller than the "n" body height (as prescribed by Arrighi) and that the "cross bar" is at the same height as the "n" body.
		Of course, majuscule letters are swashed and flourished to the writer's fancy.
	www.jp29.org /cat3.htm (659 words)

	Cursive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Most of the minuscule letters of cursive correspond quite directly to those seen on the printed or typewritten page, although neither cursive nor block letters commonly use the "hook a" or make their "g" with an ear and a backwards loop at the bottom.
		The other letter forms have generally remained the same, though the minuscule letter "w" in the eighteenth century looked like what we now use for an "n" that was linked onto a "v".
		Cursive is considered distinct from the so-called "printing" or "block letter" style of handwriting, in which the letters of a word are unconnected, and from "print-writing", which is a cross between cursive and printing, with some unconnected letters and some connected.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Cursive.htm (449 words)

	EVTIVW 1LEFM1 - Online Information article about EVTIVW 1LEFM1
		capital letter and a cursive shape somewhat resembling a small n, being in fact an imperfectly written B in which the bows are slurred.
		XEyeCBac Kai aOpoq'EVBac 7rapaKe Xev6o[O]ac 7nareuaV Se tc1)SEYL aX7Wl) The general breadth of the square letters, the smallness of the letters composed of circles and loops, and the particular formation of such letters as pi and the clipped omega, are repeated.
		But the approach also of many of the letters to the lapidary capital forms, like those in the papyrus of Timotheus, is to be remarked, such as the precisely shaped alpha, and the epsilon in many instances made square with a long head-stroke.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /EUD_FAT/EVTIVW_1LEFM1.html (3573 words)

	hblink (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The minuscule letter a is a picture of a pregnant woman squatting in the birth giving position.
		The minuscule letter a is the earth symbol in the alphabet.
		The sound of letter a is the first sound a baby makes upon being born.
	communitymidwives.org /pages/hblink.htm (280 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sometimes the new section will also be designated by the first letter of the first word being placed into the margin slightly and for the first letter to be enlarged.
		During the ninth century a reform in handwriting occurred from which was developed a script of small letters in a running hand call minuscule.
		Uncial is a formal style of handwriting, a "bookhand" which was characterized by deliberate and carefully executed letters, each one separated from the others.
	www.earlham.edu /~seidti/iam/glossary.html (932 words)

	Assignment 3.1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cedilla - A mark (¸) placed beneath the letter c, as in the spelling of the French word garçon, to indicate that the letter is to be pronounced (s).
		A mark placed under the letter c [thus, [,c]], to show that it is to be sounded like s, as in fa[,c]ade.
		Trigraph - Three letters spelling one consonant, vowel, or diphthong, such as Sch in Schiller or igh in high or thigh A group of three letters, especially of frequent occurrence in a given language, as the or ing in English or gli in Italian
	www.tutorpal.com /Our_English/lectures/Answers3_1[1].html (1427 words)

	Saulwick Art and Design. Calligraphy Lexicon.
		body height the height of the main part of a minuscule letter without ascenders or descenders.
		copperplate letter forms that achieve their 'thicks' and 'thins' as a result of pressure as distinct from angle.
		Trajan the Roman column on which the letters were carved in 113 CE and which forms the basis of our roman alphabet and all Latin letter forms
	saulwick.alphalink.com.au /callig/17lexicon.html (3172 words)

	Visigothic Minuscule
		Distinctive letters : The letter t is the trick one here, being small with a loop on the back, making it look rather like an a.
		The letters g and q could be confused, the former being open at the top with a straight descender, while the descender of q curls to the left.
		The letter b is substituted for v in the word ave (abe Maria).
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /scripts/examples/visigoth.htm (366 words)

	calligraphy -> European Calligraphy on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		AD the development of the half uncial or minuscule letter from the Roman capital gave rise to an extraordinarily beautiful and long-lasting calligraphy.
		Carolingian minuscule script and its splendid and complex derivative, known as Gothic, were the principal calligraphic styles from the 9th to the 14th cent.
		The humanistic handwriting style of the Renaissance, a deliberate imitation of Carolingian minuscule, was both aesthetically pleasing and extremely legible.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/calligra_EuropeanCalligraphy.asp (617 words)

	ipedia.com: Writing system Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In a perfectly phonological alphabet, the phonemes and letters would correspond perfectly in two directions: a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling.
		Each language has general rules that govern the association between letters and phonemes, but, depending on the language, these rules may or may not be consistently followed.
		As languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language.
	www.ipedia.com /writing_system.html (1629 words)

	ArtLex's Mi-Mok page
		The "adhan" — the call to prayer made from the minaret — sung by a muezzin present in the minaret, or a recording of him amplified by a loudspeaker.
		"Minuscule" appeared in the early 18th century as a word for certain ancient and medieval writing styles that had "small forms." Eventually, it came to be used for any lowercase letter.
		"Majuscule" is the counterpart to "minuscule" when it comes to letters, although it is not used as the opposite to miniscule in its last sense.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/Mi.html (3535 words)

	MUFI coordinated Private Use Area
		Small capitals have the same form as majuscules (capital letters), but are usually drawn with the same height as a minuscule (small) letter such as "x".
		The letters "B", "D", "G", "M", "N", "R", "S" and "T" were most frequently used as geminates, while these and other letters might also be used as ornaments in the whole or in parts of highlighted words.
		Enlarged minuscules are recognized as separate characters by some scholars, cf.
	gandalf.aksis.uib.no /mufi/PUAcoord/PUA-4.0-a-2.html (1921 words)

	minuscule --> Definition from aiedu.com
		1 : minuscule --> the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case (noun.communication)
		Synonyms: small letter, lower case, lower-case letter, minuscule
		antonym: capital capital letter upper case upper-case letter majuscule
	www.aiedu.com /word/minuscule (133 words)

	MSN Encarta - Dictionary
		If you are unsure how to spell a word or would like to find groups of words, you can browse this dictionary much like flipping the pages in a book:
		In the find box, type the first few letters of a word or type your best guess for the word.
		For example, typing "hap" takes you quickly to a list of words that begin with those letters.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?... (105 words)

	minuscule Minuscule letter Minuscule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Originally alphabets were written entirely in majuscule (capital) letters which were spaced...
		two-stroke minuscule "c," with straight horizontal head-stroke frequently beginning below the top of the curved left stroke, one source of possible confusion with minuscule "t." Transciption: d...
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	en.powerwissen.com /e55UcrRvzLg7UQ1gjQSGQQ%3D%3D_Lower-case.html (98 words)

	Minuscule - Open Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A letter in the style of definition 2.
		minuscule (vs. majuscule), minuscular -- (of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries).
		, small -- (lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters").
	open-dictionary.com /Minuscule (271 words)

	minuscule - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Minuscule, minuscule : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include minuscule: carolingian minuscule, caroline minuscule, minuscule letter
		Words similar to minuscule: little, miniscule, minuscular, small, tiny, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=minuscule&ls=a (286 words)

	Secret Gospel of Mark
		The Greek manuscript referred to as the "Secret Gospel of Mark" is actually an 18th century Greek minuscule letter reporting to be from Clement of Alexandria someone named Theodore.
		While discussing how to debate with the heretical sect called the Carpocratians, he mentions a second gospel written by the apostle Mark.
		Since this document simply talks about a secret gospel of Mark we will not know for sure until the actual document in question is found.
	www.biblefacts.org /church/secmark.html (1166 words)

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