Uncial script#Half-uncial

The half-uncial is an early medieval typeface, which was used mainly for patristic and legal texts. With the uncial she has nothing in common historical genesis. Code letters are lower case m, the N in the form of Capitalis, the italic d, or g ( ʒ ).

This early minuscule script was created by Kalligraphisierung the later Roman cursive ( Minuskelkursive ) in the 5th century in the Christian North Africa. However, the appearance is not as influenced by ascenders and descenders, as in the later minuscule. The earliest datable example is precisely the Codex with the writings of Hilary of Poitiers ( BAV, Archivio S. Pietro D. 182 ), which was of bishops who had been expelled from the kingdom of the Vandals in North Africa, edited in Cagliari 509/510. As a book she was writing widely from the 6th to the 8th century, in writing centers as Tours ( touronische half-uncial ) or Fulda was they continue to be used even in the 9th century as a display font. The writing is one of the models for the development of Carolingian minuscule.