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Rustic capitals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (222 words) |
 | Rustic capitals (in Latin capitalis rustica) is an ancient Roman calligraphic script. |
| Rustic capitals are similar to Roman square capitals, but are less rigid, influenced more by pen and ink writing on papyrus or parchment than the writing used for inscriptions. |
| After the 5th century, rustic capitals began to fall out of use, but they continued to be used as a display script in titles and headings, along with uncial as the script of the main text. |
| Roman Scripts (1089 words) |
| Inscription in square capitals on a Roman altar in the museum at Chesters Fort on Hadrian's Wall. |
| More commonly used in manuscripts as a book hand was rustic capitals, a majuscule script with rather more rounded letter forms that were easier to produce with a pen than the angular forms of square capitals. |
| Rustic capitals used in a page of text in an Anglo-Saxon manuscript, the 8th century Vespasian Psalter (British Library, Cotton Vespasian A1, f.6), by permission of the British Library. |
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