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  • Lindisfarne Gospels
    Insular script

    …distinctive Insular script was the pointed minuscule that, by the 8th century, was beginning to attain the status of a book hand, as witness the Venerable Bede in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (“Ecclesiastical History of the English People”), written in about 731. Both Insular scripts were carried to the…

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    …distinctive Insular script was the pointed minuscule that, by the 8th century, was beginning to attain the status of a book hand, as witness the Venerable Bede in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (“Ecclesiastical History of the English People”), written in about 731. Both Insular scripts were carried to the…

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