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(calligraphy, historical) A script developed to standardise writing in the Latin alphabet throughout the Holy Roman Empire, used between approximately 800 and 1200 CE.

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Carolingian minuscule

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Carolingian minuscule

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historical uncountable usually plural-normally

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聖ローマ帝国全域のラテン文字表記を標準化するために開発された書体。約800年から1200年にかけて使用されたカリグラフィーの一種。

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In the archive, the scholar carefully traced the elegant loops of Carolingian minuscule, noting how its uniform letterforms helped standardize Latin manuscripts across the early medieval empire.

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資料室で、学者はラテン文字の筆記を統一するために約800年から1200年頃にかけて神聖ローマ帝国内で用いられた書体の優雅な曲線を注意深くなぞり、その均一な字形が中世初期の写本を統一するのにどれほど役立ったかを記録した。

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The Carolingian minuscule, which we have already found brought to perfection at Tours and at other centres of France, was the literary hand of the Frankish Empire, and extended its influence and was gradually adopted in neighbouring countries.

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(calligraphy, usually in the plural) A character written in the script.

Written in black ink in Carolingian minuscules, holdings are identified by reference to the vill in which they were situated and their assessment is noted, whilst the lord in 1086 is indicated by an interlineation in red in the same hand.

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Carolingian minuscules

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