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Codex Freerianus

W. H. P. Hatch, The Principal Uncial Manuscripts Of The New Testament, 1939, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Codex Nanianus

W. H. P. Hatch, The Principal Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament (Cambridge 1939), p.

Codex Tischendorfianus III

The codex was held at Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai in Egypt and was found by Constantin von Tischendorf in 1853, who took away only the uncial text (Luke-John) — along with Codex Tischendorfianus IV — and brought it to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, where it is now located.

Edward Johnston

Johnston also devised the simply crafted round calligraphic handwriting style, written with a broad pen, known today as the foundational hand (what Johnston originally called a slanted pen hand, which was developed from Roman and half-uncial forms).

Insular script

Insular script was spread to England by the Hiberno-Scottish mission; previously, uncial script had been brought to England by Augustine of Canterbury.

Lectionary 183

William Hatch, The Principal Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament (Chicago, 1939), LXXIV.

Uncial 062

W. H. P. Hatch, An Uncial Fragment of the Gospels, HTR 23 (1930), pp. 149-152.

Ustav

Uncial Cyrillic writing which was used from the 9th century to the 14th-15th centuries as the main Cyrillic type.


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