Visigothic script

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Visigothic script littera mozarabica, littera toletana
Alphabet in Visigothic script
Script type	Alphabetic
Time period	7th century to 13th century
Direction	Left to right
Region	Iberian Peninsula
Languages	Uncial Visigothic script
Sister systems	Beneventan, Merovingian
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Visigothic script was a type of

The script, which exists in

Other features of the script include an open-top ⟨a⟩ (very similar to the letter ⟨u⟩), similar shapes for the letters ⟨r⟩ and ⟨s⟩, and a long letter ⟨i⟩ resembling the modern letter ⟨l⟩. There are two forms of the letter ⟨d⟩, one with a straight vertical

From the standard script, a capital-letter

Visigothic script has many similarities with Beneventan script and Merovingian script.

See also

• Verona Orational

Further reading

• 'Fonts for Latin Paleography: User's Manual. 6th edition' A manual of Latin paleography; a comprehensive PDF file containing 82 pages profusely illustrated, 4 January 2024).
• Littera Visigothica, blog specialized in Visigothic script
• Visigothic Minuscule on Medieval Writing
• Muñoz y Rivero, Jesús (1919). Paleografía visigoda: método teórico-práctico para aprender a leer los códices y documentos españoles de los siglos V al XII; obra ilustrada con 45 láminas dibujadas por el autor (Visigothic Paleography: A Theoretical-Practical Method for Learning to Read Spanish Codices and Documents from the 5th to 11th centuries; Illustrated with 45 Figures Drawn by the Author) (in Spanish). Madrid: D. Jorro.

• Alturo Perucho, Jesús (2004). "La escritura visigótica. Estado de la cuestión". Archiv für Diplomatik (in Spanish) (50). Viena: 347–386.
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• Castro Correa, Ainoa (2020). "Leaving the Past behind, Adapting to the Future: Transitional and Polygraphic Visigothic-Caroline Minuscule Scribes". Anuario de Estudios Medievales. 50 (2): 631–664.
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• Castro Correa, Ainoa (2021). "Dating and placing Visigothic script codices: A quick guide for beginners". Le livre et l'écrit: Le manuscrit médiéval: Texte, objet et outil de transmission (2): 7–35.
• del Camino Martínez, Mª del Carmen (1990). Los orígenes de la escritura visigótica (in Spanish). Madrid-Toledo. pp. 29–37.
  ISBN 84-7094-111-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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• Díaz y Díaz, Manuel (1979). Libros y librerías en la Rioja altomedieval (in Spanish). Logroño: IER.
• Díaz y Díaz, Manuel (1983). Códices visigóticos en la Monarquía leonesa. León: CSIC.
• Millares Carlo, Agustín (1973). Consideraciones sobre la escritura visigótica cursiva. León.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• ISBN 84-239-4986-9
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• Mundó, Anscari M. (1965). "La datación de los códices litúrgicos toledanos". Hispania Sacra (in Spanish). XVIII.
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• Mundó, Anscari M.; Alturo Perucho, Jesús (1990). "La escritura de transición de la visgótica a la carolina en la Cataluña del siglo IX". Actas del VIII Coloquio del Comité International de Paléographie Latine (in Spanish). Madrid-Toledo: 131–138.
  ISBN 84-7094-111-9
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• Núñez Contreras, Luis (1994). Manual de Paleografía (in Spanish). Madrid: Cátedra.
  ISBN 84-376-1245-4
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• Rodríguez Díaz, Elena E. (2011). Die Mozaraber. Definitionen und Perspektiven der Forschung [Los manuscritos mozárabes: una encrucijada de culturas] (in German). Münster: Lit.
  ISBN 978-3-643-11117-3
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• Selig, Maria; Frank, Barbara; Hartmann, Jörg (1993). Le passage à l'écrit des langues romanes (in French). Gunter Narr Verlag.
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• Velázquez Soriano, Isabel (1989). Las pizarras visigodas. Edición crítica y estudio. Antigüedad y Cristianismo: Monografías históricas sobre la Antigüedad Tardía (in Spanish). Murcia: Universidad de Murcia.
  ISSN 0214-7165
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