#Stmartin #martinmas #carolingianscript
Today is Martinmas November the 11th also Remembrance Day in several countries.
Now Martin of Tours was a Roman Soldier who became Bishop of Tours and one of the most famous examples of Carolingian Script is a manuscript with the biography of this saint written by Gregory of Tours.
Excellent crisp letter forms of ink on parchment not paper showing why so called half uncial scripts were popular for so many centuries in Western Europe and still influence font design today.
Very obviously handwritten and not printed though with the spacing between words and letters and the size changing here and there as if the scribe hestitated thinking about how to fit the text onto the page.
Compare this to a Carolingian based font and consider the advantages of typography via a computer to the calligraghy of a scribe.
Yet which was more personality or beauty ?
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