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

uncials's Usage Examples:

which he might have used, agreeing with the great uncials, but there is no evidence for this view.

It is also possible to argue, as WH did, on the same side, that the purest form of text was preserved in Alexandria, from which the oldest uncials are directly or indirectly derived, but this argument has been weakened if not finally disposed of by the evidence of Clement of Alexandria.

The only possible sources of evidence, apart from the discovery of fresh MSS., are the versions, and they do not point to existence in the 2nd or 3rd century of texts agreeing with the great uncials.

Formerly the Greek uncials, which go back to the 4th century, were regarded as the most important source of evidence, and were supposed to have the decisive vote; but now it is becoming plain that still more important, though unfortunately much less complete, is the evidence of the versions and of quotations by early writers.

Its relations to EFG are best discussed in Westcott and Hort's Introduction, §§ 335-337.] There are no other uncials equal in importance to the above.

Uncials.

There are not enough letters to cover the uncials, the same letter has to serve for various fragments which are quite unconnected except by the accident of simultaneous discovery, and no information is given about the MS. referred to.

There are at present two main systems: (1) Since the time of Wetstein it has been customary to employ capital letters, at first of the Latin and latterly also of the Greek and Hebrew alphabets, to designate the uncials, and Arabic figures to designate the minuscules.

and Versions.-There are six uncials, N, A, C, P, Q, a, the last of which has not been edited or collated.

Such of the inscriptions on their coins as are not in Greek or an Indian language are in a form of Persian written in Greek uncials.

uncials'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