En principio, los tipos mas accesibles a los jovenes lectores serian sin duda la semiuncial y la
uncial, pero las nuevas minusculas de base cursiva progresivamente complicada por la presencia de ligaduras serian la pesadilla de los pequenos.
"Significantly," writes Kiernan, "the style of the capitals does remain constant through the prose texts, but it changes notably at the beginning of Beowulf?.' The script of the capitals switches from
uncial majuscule to capital majuscule, but also, notes Kiernan, "the major difference is that the letters in the Beowulf line are drawn with more care, more evenness, more technical draftsmanship" (140-41).
(16) The titling type is all hand lettered, and the cover type is a peculiar invention of pseudo-medievalism, part
uncial, part Byzantine, but that resembles many contemporary display fonts.
Then the title page: the exotic typeface (
uncial, not arabic, but you get the idea), and the suggestion of a Persian chessboard.
The activity level of exotic cats, including African lions (Panthera leo), amur leopards (Panthera pardus orientalis), amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica), snow leopards (Panthera
uncial), fishing cats (Felis viverrinus), and clouded leopards (Neofelis nebulosa) was compared to visitor interest at the Brookfield Zoo (Illinois) and greater visitor interest was associated with more active cats (Margulis et al., 2003).
(1) The author continues to list a further forty-seven abuses of the commonweal, each new complaint highlighted by an
Uncial C down the left-hand side.
(9) A similar corruption may have occurred at 22.3, where multa, read by nearly all our MSS, yields the better sense and is obviously right but where one MS, the
uncial A, while also having multa, follows it (unmetrically) with cuncta, incorporating a marginal or interlinear variant from its exemplar into its text.
The Old English sentence is difficult to construe by punctuation, and it is not clarified by the
uncial S (used in the same way as a modern capital) in Swa.
"The letter, in its graphic materiality, then becomes an irreducible ideality," wrote Barthes in an essay subtitled "A lettre" and went on to rhapsodize on the
uncial manuscripts copied by Christian monks of the early Middle Ages, even going so far as to call that phase of premodernity "a new age, so completely has it been forgotten" (Oeuvres completes, vol.