Example of a MINISCULE script, called Carolingian.
The text is taken from a letter from Cicero to Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer, written in January or February of 62 B.C.; the translation is given below. The title uses the Capitalis Elegans script. The "whitevine" encloses the letter Q and the text starts with: Quod autem ita seribis, pro etc.
Key Features of the Carolingian Script
This alphabet has no capital letters. Whenever a capital letter was needed then a letter from another type of script, such as Capitalis Monumentalis, or Uncial was used. The three capital characters, viz. N, E and R, used in the body of the letter were made creatively to follow the shape of the Carolingian.
Most of the letters are easily read, but the following few require explaining:
Translation
When you, on the other hand, write regarding the mutual friendship that underlines our souls, exactly what you consider this mutual friendship to be, I don't know. I believe that it means the willingness to give and receive.
Now then, if I were to say that through your fault I lost the opportunity of a provincial magistracy, I would appear to you as a champion of incoherence.
To be continued