adjective
definition
Of or relating to an ounce, or an inch, especially to letters printed an inch high.
Examples of uncial in a Sentence
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.
There are said to be uncial MSS.
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.
C, von Soden S 3; an uncial palimpsest (the top writing being that of Ephraem) of the 5th century.
B and in the other uncial MSS., (b) that preserved in the cursive codex 248 (Holmes and Parsons).
For the restoration of the Greek text we have, besides many Greek MSS., uncial and cursive, the old Latin, the Syro-Hexaplar, the Armenian, Sahidic and Ethiopic versions, as well as a considerable number of quotations in the Greek and Latin Fathers.
The Revised Version, on the other hand, in following the uncial MSS.
Demotic.Widely varying degrees of cursiveness are at all periods observable in hieratic; but, about the XXVLth Dynasty, which inaugurated a great commercial era, there was something like a definite parting between the uncial hieratic and the most cursive form afterwards known as demotic. The employment of hieratic was thenceforth almost confined to the copying of religious and other traditional texts on papyrus, while demotic was used not only for all business but also for writing literary and even religious texts in the popular language.
For the third decade our chief authority is the Codex Puteanus, an uncial MS. of the 5th century, now at Paris.
It is based chiefly on the uncial Greek alphabet, from which indeed most of the letters are obviously derived, and several orthographical peculiarities, e.g.
Gaelic uncial I find it useful to classify uncial fonts on a three-point scale of ornateness.
There are few, if any, divisions between words in uncial manuscripts and no punctuation to speak of.
This is a most valuable copy of the Prophets, written in Egypt in the sixth century, in a fine bold uncial hand.
The text is written in an uncial script - a luxury script using large, rounded letterforms.
The result is a well-balanced script that is both easier to read, and quicker to write, than the older Uncial style.
Uncial letters formal book scripts - were widely used from the fifth to the eighth centuries.
This alphabet, which is much more difficult to read than the bolder Cyrillic founded on the Greek uncial, survived for ordinary purposes in Croatia and in the islands of the Quarnero till the 17th century.