Sentence examples for minuscule hand from inspiring English sources

At its close a large, exuberant, florid cursive was fully established for documents; in the 7th and 8th centuries it sloped to the right, became congested, and adopted some forms that anticipated the minuscule hand.

Greek minuscule hand by two copyists: I. ff.

It is a clearly written minuscule hand, vertical, round and open, with distinctive penlifts.

These missing leaves were supplemented by a 15th-century minuscule hand (folios 760 768) and are catalogued separately as the minuscule Codex 1957.

Written in a minuscule hand on the scrap of paper (easy to hide, one imagines, from one's siblings or clergyman father) is a sweet little poem about a doleful walk along a mountain stream.

The upper text was written by a minuscule hand and contains lectionary 299 (ℓ 299) from the 12th or 13th century, though the lectionary text is not complete; it is written on 176 leaves, in one column per page, 33-36 lines per page.

Are your Wii controllers far too large for your minuscule hands?

Hand C also has greater tendency to use minuscule than Hand A. Hand C uses the same brownish gall-ink used by hand A and wrote, almost always, seventeen lines per page.

I cherish the watch, which carries on its dial, instead of the usual small hand, the silhouette of a minuscule locomotive pulling three coaches and advancing every second, one notch at a time.

Until about 800 ce the uncials were used as a book hand; later the minuscule script was employed for the same purpose.

(Uncial letters were somewhat rounded and separated versions of capital letters or cursive forms; minuscule letters developed from cursive writing and have simplified, small forms). Until about 800 ce the uncials were used as a book hand; later the minuscule script was employed for the same purpose.