कुछ हद तक गोलाकार पूंजी अक्षरों द्वारा वर्णित ऑर्थोग्राफी की एक शैली; 4 वीं से 8 वीं शताब्दी के ग्रीक और लैटिन पांडुलिपियों में पाया गया

uncial's Usage Examples:

D, von Soden S 5; an uncial Graeco-Latin MS. not later than the 6th century and prob.

Soden 31; an uncial MS. of the 4th century.

He abandons the practice of making a distinction between uncial and minuscule, on the ground that for textual criticism the style of writing is less important than the date and contents of a MS. To indicate these he divided MSS.

There are said to be uncial MSS.

earlier than the 9th century are uncial and later than the 10th are minuscule.

The first method distinguishes between uncial or majuscule, and cursive or minuscule; the second between papyrus, vellum or parchment, and paper (for further details see Manuscript and Palaeography); and the third distinguishes mainly between Gospels, Acts and Epistles (with or without the Apocalypse), New Testaments (the word in this connexion being somewhat broadly interpreted), lectionaries and commentaries.

x, von Soden S 2; an uncial MS. of the 4th century.

30.1), the commentary of Ticonius, and the uncial C, can be explained from the Latin form of the name Nero, which by its omission of the final n makes the sum total 616 instead of 666.

uncial style.

uncial script - a luxury script using large, rounded letterforms.

uncial's Meaning':

a style of orthography characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; found especially in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the 4th to 8th centuries