insular script
noun1
Biology, Epigraphy, Geography, History, Human sciences, Literature, Media, Natural sciences, Palaeography, Paleogeography, Paleography, Paleontology, Publishing, Sciences A medieval script originating in 7ᵗʰ-century Ireland, derived from the semi-uncial and the New Roman cursive scripts
- A St. Bertin MS. of Augustine's Letters, now at Boulogne […], written in Insular script of the same century, seems to have transcribed many of its abbreviation-symbols mechanically from a very early original1912, W[allace] M[artin] Lindsay, “The Abbreviation-Symbols of ergo, igitur”, in Paul Schwenke, editor, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen begründet von Otto Hartwig, Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, page 61:
- In Ammian. ⅹⅹ. 3. 1 secuturos thecanno VM: for secuto post haec anno; the original error must have been secutoros, with the confusion of P and R common in reading the insular script.1913, F[rederick] W[illiam] Hall, “Emendation” (chapter 7), in A Companion to Classical Texts, Oxford, Confusion of similar letters in Latin - P, R, page 162:
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- Unicode insular script characters: Ꝺ ꝺ, Ꝼ ꝼ, Ᵹ ᵹ, Ꝿ ꝿ, Ꟑ ꟑ, Ꞃ ꞃ, Ꞅ ꞅ, Ꞇ ꞇ