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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Antiqua
		Antiqua letterforms were modelled on a synthesis of Roman inscriptional capitals and Carolingian writing.
		The Arch of Titus, with an inscription in Roman square capitals Roman square capitals, also called elegant capitals and quadrata, are an ancient Roman form of writing, and the basis for modern capital letters.
		Roman type has two separate meanings in typography, both of which refer to the fact that the capital letters of a Roman font have an appearance similar to those used for lettering stone in ancient Rome: Roman type can refer to one of the major families of traditional typefaces as...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Antiqua (813 words)

	Roman square capitals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Square capitals were used to write inscriptions, and less often to supplement everyday handwriting.
		Notable examples of square capitals used for inscriptions are found on the Pantheon, Trajan's Column, and the Arch of Titus, all in Rome.
		Square capitals are characterized by sharp, straight lines, supple curves, thick and thin strokes, angled stressing and incised serifs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_square_capitals (253 words)

	Roman Britain - MSN Encarta
		Roman Britain, Britain under Roman rule, from around the time that the native Celts were finally subjugated by the mid-1st century ad to the early 5th century, when the Roman Empire had begun to break up, and Britain was no longer a part of the empire.
		Except for very brief periods when the Roman emperor was present (as was Claudius in ad 43 and Hadrian in ad 122), the most important man in the Roman province during the first 150 years after the conquest was his deputy, the governor.
		In virtually all cases, civitas capitals were built on the site of Roman forts and perhaps trace their immediate origins to the civilian settlements that grew up outside the gates; there was certainly an element of deliberate planning in their foundation, after the army had moved on, as their more or less regular street-grids testify.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781533937/Roman_Britain.html (1417 words)

	Roman square capitals
		Roman square capitals, also called elegant capitals and quadrata, are an ancient Roman form of writing, and the basis for modern capital letters.
		Square capitals were most often used to write the Roman alphabet in inscriptions, and less frequently in everyday handwriting.
		In the early Middle Ages, from around the 4th century to the 6th century, square capitals were used to write de luxe copies of the works pagan authors, especially Virgil, whose works make up the only three surviving manuscripts using this script.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/r/ro/roman_square_capitals.html (212 words)

	History of Calligraphy
		Roman Square capitals (scroll down to see an example of the Roman Square Capital hand), the “quadrata”, are elegant, formal letters seen on monumental inscriptions in stone, they were also drawn with brush and pen, but Square capitals owe much to the chisel and the mallet.
		Christianity became the official religion of Roman Empire in 313 A.D. In Egypt, which was a province of Rome, Christian influence shut down schools and temples and caused the downfall of their hieroglyphic heritage.
		To write cursive capitals a pen was cut to a sharp point and held at the same oblique angle, but was lifted less frequently, and this “cursive” handling automatically created new and simpler letter forms.
	mysite.verizon.net /houseofcalligraphy/history.html (2727 words)

	Roman Scripts
		The most formal of the Old Roman scripts was square capitals or capitalis quadrata, used mainly for carved inscriptions where it is also known as scriptura monumentalis.
		Square capitals used in a manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid from the Library of St Gall (Cod.1394,p.12).
		More commonly used in manuscripts as a book hand was rustic capitals, a majuscule script with rather more rounded letter forms that were easier to produce with a pen than the angular forms of square capitals.
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /scripts/history2.htm (1089 words)

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		Roman Square Capitals were used for only the finest manuscripts because, due to the need for precision, the letters were so slow to write.
		Roman Square Capital, a very exact and time-consuming hand, was replaced by Roman Rustic, a cursive form of its precursor.
		The Roman Square Capitals were used for titles and explicits, Roman Rustic and the full, rounded Uncial script for chapter headings, table of contents, first lines, subtitles, and the beginning of paragraphs and sentences, and the Half- Uncial for prefaces and second lines of texts in descending order of rank.
	www.florilegium.org /files/SCRIBAL-ARTS/scrpt-develop-art.text (8147 words)

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		It appears safe to assume that the quill pen came into gradual use with the establishment of Roman formal capital letters, of graduated thick and thin st rokes, and the supplanting of papyrus by parchment as a writing material about 190 B.C. The quill pen was the principal writing instrument during the Middle Ages.
		Roman Squ are Capital and Roman Rustic had fallen into disuse for all but titles.
		The Roman Square Capitals were used for titles and explicits, Roman Rustic and the full, rounded Uncial script for chapter headings, table of contents, f irst lines, subtitles, and the beginning of paragraphs and sentences, and the Half-Uncial for prefaces and second lines of texts in descending order of rank.
	www.florilegium.org /files/SCRIBAL-ARTS/scrpt-develop-art.rtf (8659 words)

	Roman square capitals
		Roman square capitals is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Capital letters or majuscules (in the Roman alphabet: A, B, C,...) are one type of case in a writing system.
		Capital letters (also simply called capitals or caps) are also known as upper case; manual typesetters kept them in the upper drawers of a desk, keeping the more frequent minuscule letters on the lower shelf.
	www.experiencefestival.com /roman_square_capitals (2148 words)

	Historic Richmond Foundation \| Historic Areas: Capitol Square
		In 1816, Maximilian Godefroy was chosen to landscape the square.
		It is the oldest continuously inhabited governor's mansion in the country built for that purpose.
		The locally-made cast-iron fence and Corinthian capitals are wonderfully ornate.
	www.historicrichmond.com /capitolsquare.html (540 words)

	Roman square capitals - Wikinfo
		The Arch of Titus, with an inscription in Roman square capitals
		(The usual handwriting script in ancient Rome was Roman cursive.) Some notable examples of square capitals used for inscriptions are the Pantheon, Trajan's Column, and the Arch of Titus, all in Rome.
		In the early Middle Ages, from around the 4th century to the 6th century, square capitals were used to write de luxe copies of the works of pagan authors, especially Virgil, whose works make up the only three surviving manuscripts using this script (the Vergilius Augusteus).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Roman_square_capitals (745 words)

	Roman Columns — Pacific Columns, Inc. (800) 294-1098
		Although Roman architects applied columns evolved from Greek architecture to their temples and buildings, they were often able to use the columns in new ways due to advancements in building technologies.
		Perhaps the most elaborate of the Roman columns is the Composite, which is a combination of the Greek Ionic and Corinthian columns.
		The Romans also developed the arch and dome, which was often supported by columns, as opposed to the Greek columns, which were primarily arranged in square and rectangles, and only supported flat architraves.
	www.enduracolumns.com /roman_columns_architectural.php (469 words)

	Carolingian Scripts
		The extant manuscripts with square capitals are all copies of Virgil dating from the 4th or 5th centuries.
		The Vatican Vergil, a deluxe manuscript from the end of the fourth or early fifth century, is written in Rustic Capitals.
		Uncial would supplant the rustic capitals as the most popular script from the fifth century.
	employees.oneonta.edu /farberas/arth/arth212/Carolingian_Culture/carolingian_scripts.html (832 words)

	The Roman Empire - Mathematics and the Liberal Arts
		Surviving Roman bridges show a high level of skill; there were surely mathematical principles behind their design, but no detailed study has survived.
		Roman mazes generally appear to be made of copies (usually four) of identical submazes (he calls this the "standard scheme").
		He notes that the basic ideals for the Roman maze seems to have originated in Crete, where there is a famous association between Crete and the legend of the Minotaur.
	math.truman.edu /~thammond/history/RomanEmpire.html (1906 words)

	Romanesque architecture
		By the end of the pre-Romanesque period, Roman stylistic elements had fused with elements from Byzantium and the Middle East, and from the Germans, the Celts, and other northern tribes in western Europe.
		A distinguishing feature of Romanesque style, bays are square or rectangular spaces enclosed by groin vaults and used by architects as the basic building unit.
		Tuscan and Roman churches featured classical Corinthian capitals and acanthus borders, as well as colored marble in geometric patterns; open arcades, colonnades, and galleries; and facades with sculptures in relief.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Workshop/5220/middle/romanesq.html (550 words)

	History Of Writing
		So, too, the ` Roman ' numerals I, II, III, IIII are in all probability pictures of one, two, three, and four fingers held up, just as V is the whole hand, the four fingers being grouped together as one and the thumb as the other limb of the figure.
		Pure square Capitals are hard to find in writing as distinguished from inscriptions, but exist, for instance, in the fragments of Virgil in the library of St. Gall (fourth or fifth-century A.D.: Palaeogr.
		In this all the letters are capital, but are thinner, compressed laterally as it were, while the numerous horizontal strokes on the right hand of an ordinary capital are often prolonged to the left.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles11/manuscripts-3.shtml (2994 words)

	Roman Architecture 3 - Crystalinks
		After the Roman Empire became officially Christian, the term came by extension to refer to a large, and important church that has been given special ceremonial rights by the Pope, and thus the word retains two senses today, in an architectural context and in an ecclesiastical one.
		Probably the most splendid Roman basilica is the one constructed for traditional purposes during the reign of the pagan emperor Maxentius and finished by Constantine after 313.
		This is perhaps the most famous example of Roman square capitals, a script often used for stone monuments, and less often for manuscript writing.
	www.crystalinks.com /romearch3.html (3030 words)

	Roman Archaeology
		The capitals of the peristyle in the garden, which are from Hadrian's era, like those in the Olympeion in Athens, indicate that the villa was completed in Hadrian's time, around 117-138 AD.
		Wigan was the site of a Roman fort known as Coccium, which was in existence in the second century AD.
		Three Roman roads have been traced in the Wigan area and researched by the Wigan Archaeological Society.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~mharrsch/2005_03_01_romanarch_archive.html (480 words)

	Shropshire Routes to Roots \| The Story of Writing \| Wroxeter Writing
		Apart from the destruction of the Wrekin hillfort, there is little evidence of armed resistance to the Roman invaders; the growth of Viroconium seeming to indicate a prosperous accomadation with their new rulers.
		Discovered from 1973 at the ruins of the Roman fort of Vindolanda, one mile south of Hadrian's Wall, the tablets are comprised of wooden leaves with carbon ink lettering.
		The often used phrase "Roman City" is somewhat misleading, the city was a Cornovian settlement which continued to flourish after the departure of the Romans.
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /roots/packages/wri/wri_s08.htm (552 words)

	Code Style: CSS font-family property glossary
		Arabic style numerals that have the same vertical height and position as the capitals in a font, as opposed to old style or non-lining numerals that descend beneath the base line of the font.
		Sans serif font styles have no serifs and generally have minimal contrast, their strokes are very even and sometimes heavy.
		Slab serifs, or Egyptian serifs, have visually square serifs such that the thickness of the serif is about equal to its extension from the main stroke.
	www.codestyle.org /css/font-family/Glossary.shtml (1491 words)

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		Large capitals are placed in the left margin when a sentence beginning coincides with a new line.
		Note that the Rustic Capital 'A' in Aut (l.10) is made without a crossbar.
		The capital letters at sentence beginnings are a mixture of Roman Rustic and Roman Square Capitals.
	www.medieval.unimelb.edu.au /ductus/demo/engine/ductus/frames/scripts/D-007.html (457 words)

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		The great square of the Colosseum had everything from statues, parks, gardens, various subsidiary buildings and even a small lake.
		This consisted of statues cone standing in a large round basin, veneered in marble and was richly adorned with niches and statues.
		The Rectangular Temple on the right is Ionic in style (capitals with characteristic volutes) and is built of tufa and travertine with a superficial coating of stucco(bonding material).
	library.thinkquest.org /10098/rome.htm (1088 words)

	Roman Columns, Architectural Columns, Roman Doric Columns, Columns, Poly Classic Columns by Pacific Columns! ...
		Roman Columns are particularly known for their deep, detailed fluting.
		The primary difference between the Roman Doric and the Roman Ionic is the type of capital that the column is crowned with.
		The most common representations of the Roman Ionic Order include the columns with 24 fluted separated by fillets that are about one-third their width.
	www.polyclassiccolumns.com /roman-columns.htm (410 words)

	Written Square Capitals : Fonts : CDD
		Note: this is a Capital Set; it deviates from our standard fonts in that only a single Modern font is provided - no ancient font or lower-case characters exist as these were not in use at the time of the original scripts.
		The Romans perfected the ‘Square Capitals’ majuscule which, in written form (Quadrata or Written Square Capitals), was used from around the 2nd century AD.
		The square style was highly legible and, when used in inscriptional form (Capitales Monumentales), became the standard by which legibility is still judged today.
	www.crazydiamond.co.uk /fonts/writsq.html (154 words)

	Antiqua - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia
		A facsimile of Nicholas Jenson's roman type used in Venice circa 1470.
		Antiqua is the term used for typefaces designed between about 1470 and 1600, specifically those by Nicholas Jenson and the Aldine roman comissioned by Aldus Manutius and cut by Francesco Griffo.
		Antiqua letterforms were modelled on a synthesis of Roman inscriptional capitals and Carolingian writing.
	www.medbib.com /Antiqua (167 words)

	The Ultimate Latin alphabet Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world.
		For a short time in Roman history, the three Claudian letters were added to the alphabet, but the innovations didn't stick.
		Note that a word starting with ij that is written with a capital I is also written with a capital J, e.g.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Roman_alphabet (2482 words)

	Capitals - Suppliers, Vendors, Sources, Manufacturers - Oldhouseweb.com
		Ornamental capitals, caps and bases for PermaCast columns are molded of lightweight, weatherproof, insect-proof and beautiful detailed Polywood, a proprietary polyurethane resin.
		Architectural wood columns are available in several species, round or square, plain or fluted, and in a wide variety of sizes.
		West Jordan, UT Designer and manufacturer of lighting, columns and capitals, cornices, railings, fences, newels, planters, finials, street furnishings, and fountains cast in bronze, aluminum, or iron.
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