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reddite.bsky.social
Palaeography sit com called Bob's Your Uncial
February 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
carinr.bsky.social
I dipped in at random and what I found was not encouraging. This is the Magregol Gospels, Bodleian Library MS. Auct. D. 2. 19. Insular Half-uncial is not a hard script to read. And why does it "transcribe" a handful of the glosses but not most of them? I mean, keep on trying...
Screenshot of the machine's attempt at transcribing the portion of the manuscript page that is also in this post. Bodleian Library MS. Auct. D. 2. 19, fol. 1v, the portion "transcribed" in the screenshot in the other image in this post.
January 31, 2026 at 10:45 PM
dreamsofvenus.bsky.social
UNCIAL SRIPT
January 30, 2026 at 6:23 PM
libroraptor.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy
@enniusredloeb.bsky.social On my Christmas cakes, too!
Fraktur and artificial uncial text pointed to by a rabbit wearing a buttoned coat.
January 29, 2026 at 1:48 AM
tulipathy.bsky.social
I hope you are so lucky as to have a @postboxrose.bsky.social in your life to encourage you to consider painting on purpose on a page you spill on. So free!!!!!!!
#tulipgraphy
Photo: a spill of deep green ink that looks a lot like a snake’s head, over shimmering ink names written in uncial on a white page Photo: shimmering ink names written in uncial on a white page. A deep green inkspill has been painted out to look like a snake, and another has been painted low on the page. Photo: shimmering ink names written in uncial on a white page. A deep green inkspill has been painted out to look like a snake, and several other snakes have been added to the page. Photo: on a white page, a deep green inkspill has been painted out to look like a snake, over several shimmering ink names. A bend in the snake has picked up a lot of copper shimmer from the ink beneath it.
January 28, 2026 at 6:23 AM
tulipathy.bsky.social
chat I’m gonna kermit 😭😭😭😭😭😭
#tulipgraphy
Photo: a white wideways sheet of paper with several ink names written in uncial letters. The inks are beautifully shimmery but UNFORTUNATELY there is a GIANT GREEN SPILL vaguely the shape of a snake near the left hand side of the page
January 28, 2026 at 5:10 AM
carinr.bsky.social
And I made a separate post for the Codex Fuldensis, a mid-6c MS of the Vulgate: bsky.app/profile/cari... What I don't seem to have discussed then was that this MS has what we were taught to see as later Uncial features, despite being on the early end of that script's range. #paleography
carinr.bsky.social Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · Jan 25
One more #manuscript today for the Conversion of Paul. This is the Codex Fuldensis or Victor Codex, a copy of the Vulgate written between 541-546. Here is a detail of the Damascus road incident from fol. 383v. This MS's layout is of a type I don't see discussed much: scriptio continua, (more...)🧵
January 25, 2026 at 1:32 PM
bettyblueaesztia.bsky.social
Y a ti con qué uncial te pronuncio
si tu nombre lo escriben los miembros
más audaces del bullicio.

Si he leído que tu delta mayúscula
es más grande que nuestro corazón.

En sus sedes están previstas mis ofrendas de treinta y siete grados.

La ofrenda seminal preparada.

🖌️H. BRZOSKA
January 21, 2026 at 12:17 PM
lisafdavis.bsky.social
This is splendid work! Using sophisticated raking-light imaging to see drypoint inscriptions in an 8th-c. uncial manuscript. Really cool stuff.
pseudo-isidore.bsky.social Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 18d
The inkless doodles of Eadburg, an 8th-c. nun, discovered by new technology: now published by Jessica Hendy-Hodgkinson in EME doi.org/10.1111/emed... (Open access)
Sketch of a person (?)
January 19, 2026 at 2:23 PM
kiranox.bsky.social
This is a study sheet by Tom Rhodes from the development of DAI. He seemed to be analyzing existing written languages in an effort to develop something for DA, this could be the earliest iterations of what would become the fonts we know now

In the top right was a section labeled "old Inquisition"
At the top of says "old Inquisition" Below is a screenshot of a real world text with the words "uncial script" written to the side Below that are hand drawn characters
January 17, 2026 at 12:26 AM
lolbrarian.bsky.social
I’m having trouble determining exactly which text I’m looking at in this binding. Anyone want to take a crack?
An octavo incunable bound in a manuscript leaf of 1 column 25 lines (below top line, uncial d—later medieval) See other description-this is the other board
January 16, 2026 at 3:31 PM
regipsaloquitur.com
T-shirt idea: “Mercia! Fuck yeah!” in uncial.
January 14, 2026 at 6:18 AM
carinr.bsky.social
Next up was the Baslican Hilary, a rare ex. of echt Half-Uncial (the formal late Roman minuscule, vs. Insular Half-Uncial). Half-Uncial MSS survive at only about 10% the rate of Uncial ones. Thrilling not to haven to rely on fuzzy xeroxes for this important script.

bsky.app/profile/cari...
carinr.bsky.social Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · Jan 13
Today is the feast of Hilary of Poitiers, which means we get to look at the Basilican Hilary, CLA Vol. 1 item 1a, beginning of the 6th century. Full MS here, watermarked, because Vatican, sigh: digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Arc... This is part of fol. 279r. 🧵 for more #paleography details.
January 13, 2026 at 1:40 PM
falquemonica.bsky.social
Un trabajo enorme de Norton.
Pero Pohl se para un momento y dice ... a ver ¿qué hacemos entonces con los tituli escritos en el tapiz? Porque no te pasas el trabajo de bordar dos mil y pico letras en mayúscula romana y uncial. Con palabras en latín, anglosajón y francés normando porque sí.
January 11, 2026 at 5:57 PM
infonta.bsky.social
Short calligraphy courses are starting soon — CLAS has recently announced:
Roman Capitals with Margaret Morgan
Pointed Pen Decoration with Joy Daniels
Gothic Black Letter with Julia Baxter
Angled Pen Uncial with Liz Barrow
Rustic Letters with Mary Noble

www.clas.co.uk/clas-live-on...

#calligraphy
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At CLAS, we’ve organised our courses into three categories to help you find the perfect fit:
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January 6, 2026 at 10:20 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#EpigraphyTuesday surprises us with an #epigram from Pope Damasus I, from 366-384, in the stairway to the basilica of S. Agnese fuori le Mura along the via #Nomentana outside #Rome. The beautiful precision of the #epigraphy makes it essential to the history of #calligraphy. #AncientBluesky 🏺
EPIGRAM OF DAMASUS, C. 370 CE. BASILICA OF S. AGNESE FUORI LE MURA This is one of the few certain survivals of the earliest basilica on this site, which was rebuilt in the early C7. In the rebuilding, this poetic tribute to the Roman martyr girl Agnes by pope Damasus I was removed from the presumed site of the girl's grave and turned upside-down to serve as a paver. It was only rediscovered in 1728, essentially intact, and set into the wall of the entrance staircase. Damasus left inscriptions at the tombs of martyrs: we have text from 60 epigrams he wrote to celebrate them, but most of the original inscribed panels are lacunar or lost. Damasan script is an ancestor of Carolingian uncial calligraphy. This tells the story of Agnes' eager martyrdom during Diocletian's persecution in 304, in which "she, a mere child as she was, immediately tore herself from her nurse's breast and, scorning the threats and rage of the cruel tyrant, willingly offered her noble body to the flames."
January 5, 2026 at 11:26 PM
mthrjo.bsky.social
My specialism in terms of literary history is the late mediaeval, but nonetheless: insular uncial and half-uncial is where it's at, script-wise.
January 2, 2026 at 2:11 PM
revdphilippa.bsky.social
My origin story:
The original 1980s cover for The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. It's a Puffin book. The font for the title is Uncial-esque (aping very early medieval ceremonial text), and the cover shows a figure standing in a snowy landscape. It's a humanoid creature with an owl's head and deer's antlers. The head is seen through a prism and coloured, but not naturalistically, and the rest is black and white. It is a creepy and fascinating image.
December 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
dpbsmith.bsky.social
I can't speak to Celtic authenticity, but AS DISPLAYED HERE the "Celtic" is legible to my eye and the "American Uncial" is quite hard to read. I don't know how you use "letter stamps"--in particularly, how you get them spaced--but as displayed the American Uncial needs much more
December 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
waymack.bsky.social
Opinions on these? a family member is getting me a set of brass letter stamps in 14pt for Xmas and I have to pick and am hopelessly dithering
Two different uncial scripts
December 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
vagnretur.social.spejset.org.ap.brid.gy
@laxsill re: emacs vs vi
A text about the editor ed(1), being the standard editor, written in some kind of uncial with some mistakes.
December 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
cranchyroll.com
Started reading The History and Technique of Lettering by Alexander Nesbitt. Absolutely fascinating, with the early portion I've read dealing with the development and evolution of alphabets, and how the tools used to write affected those changes. Regional differences, etc. Full of great diagrams!
Cover of the book The History and Technique of Lettering by Alexander Nesbitt. It shows the title and then the alphabet written in several different styles of lettering. Lettering examples showing multiple styles of Uncial letterforms. A diagram showing the evolution of numerals, from early Indian numerals, eastern and western Arabic numerals, 11th century and later European interpretations of those numbers, and finally a set designed by Claude Garamont in 1545 that are the numerals we use today.
December 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
carinr.bsky.social
I did a long thread about this manuscript's #paleography and the features of early Uncial last January: bsky.app/profile/cari...

The manuscript is online here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/55b2... Thanks as always to @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for their exemplary presentation and userfriendliness!
carinr.bsky.social Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · Jan 25
Next up for the Conversion of Paul, a *much* older manuscript. The Laudian Acts, Bodleian Library MS. Laud Gr. 35, was copied late 6th/early 7th c., possibly in Sardinia. It has the Latin and Greek text of Acts parallel. Here is a whole page with the dramatic moment, fol 72r. 🧵
#medievalsky
A very early medieval manuscript page with parallel Latin and Greek text in long columns
December 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
antra-marta.id.lv
2. Sheeners: Chaos & Energy. I didn't get others' excitement for Chaos until I put it in a stub nib. Now it's probably my favorite of the calendar. It just shows that swatches are actually only half the story - you might see the full potential only after trying them in fountain pens!
Two ink swatch cards side-by-side. Left: 'Chaos', a deep purple ink with a heavy green sheen. Right: 'Energy', a violet ink also covered in green sheen. Close-up of handwritten Uncial letters showing extreme metallic green sheen reflecting light, contrasting against the ink's dark purple base colour.
December 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
antra-marta.id.lv
Day 22: Pineapple Spritz, chameleon shimmer ink. I can make the mocktail, but can’t write the word 'pineapple' correctly without auto correction, sorry about that 🍍
Swatch card comparison showing Inkvent ink Pineapple Spritz next to Diamine Lemon & Lime and Diamine Amber. Close-up of the handwritten text in yellow fountain pen ink with heavy gold shimmer. Flat-lay of an open notebook next to a Pineapple Spritz mocktail in a glass with a metal straw. A slice of fresh pineapple and a lime sit nearby. Handwritten recipe in Uncial reads: 'Pinapple [typo] spritz mocktail * ice * pinapple [typo] juice 90 ml * fresh lime juice 15 ml * soda 120 ml * pinapple [typo] wedge for garnish'
December 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM