Fw: Re: [B-Greek] Carolingian minuscules?

Larry Swain theswain at operamail.com
Wed Apr 7 00:38:52 EDT 2004


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From: "Larry Swain" <theswain at operamail.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 22:36:01 +0100
To: bgreek at ntresources.com
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Carolingian minuscules?

> Carolingian minuscule refers to a Latin script developed under Charlemagne and Alcuin and other worthies c. 800 (actually proto-scripts had been in development, but that will take us far afield), chiefly to respond to the absolutely horrendous Merovingian scripts that preceded Charlemagne.  Carolingian minuscule is a clear, concise script that sought to clarify Latin, now learned as a second language, reduce the number of ligatures and abbreviations, and generally make it easier to read.  It is the basis, in fact, of our ever popular Times New Roman font.  But that too is another story.....
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> Where Greek appears in a Carolingian manuscript, it is my impression (from the manuscripts I've looked at, certainly not a detailed study) that the Greek is simply written in the same Carolingian script, but the nature of these Greek citations are a few words at most, and often misspelled or misdivided depending on whether the scribe or his exemplar knew Greek.  I personally don't know of a mss that contains extensive Greek citations, or even a "Greek" ms. written in this script, though I could certainly be wrong.
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> Does that help?  
> 
> Larry Swain
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> > Are "Carolingian minuscule" letters Roman or Greek letters? Or can it refer
> > to both? (I know, slightly off-topic, but with the tc-list down for so long,
> > there aren't too may other resources for such queries.)
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