Written in very regular, bold Italian minuscules of the period of the Renaissance.
The semi-uncials of the fifth and sixth centuries, which grew into the minuscules of the seventh and eighth, must have been as much needed in the first century as the sixth, but there is no trace of them.
The minuscules of Gaul and Western Germany, called Merowingian, were still in a formless and primitive rudeness at the time when the Irish had already attained the elegance of practised penmanship.
The best writing of Greek minusculesbelongs to the ninth and tenth centuries of our era, in which a sufficient amount of practice had been gained to ensure regularity of form.
Bousset has argued that the readings in the Pauline epistles found in [Hebrew: alef]^c H and a fewminuscules represent the text used by Pamphilus, and on the whole this view seems to be highly probable.
If roman minuscules are used throughout, or roman for the text and italic for the imprint of colophon, the method of transliteration which the printer himself would have used should be adopted.
If minuscules are used, the words should be transliterated as quinque, queen, Europe, according to the practice of the old printers themselves.
A more certain case is 66, 7 fungar indicis] fungarindicis ex fungari dicis B; here the error is easier to derive from an original in minuscules in which in was abbreviated with a stroke above the i.
In these examples it will be noted that the minuscules seem to be more easily transformed into capitals than do the capitals into minuscules; only a few of the latter appearing to lend themselves harmoniously to the small letter guise.
The letters shown in 182 are fairly typical of the characteristic Blackletter minuscules of Italy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minuscules" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
