insular script

old writing system common to Ireland and Anglo-Saxon Britain, based on the Latin script derived from the Semi-Uncial and New Roman Cursive styles
Thing handwriting_style Q1518866
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insular script

Summary

insular script is a handwriting style[1]. It draws 405 Wikipedia views per month (handwriting_style category, ranking #6 of 30).[2]

Key Facts

  • insular script's image is recorded as Script, Chad-Gospels.jpg[3].
  • insular script's instance of is recorded as handwriting style[4].
  • insular script's based on is recorded as half uncial[5].
  • insular script's based on is recorded as later Roman cursive[6].
  • insular script's subclass of is recorded as Latin script[7].
  • insular script's has use is recorded as Hiberno-Latin[8].
  • insular script's has use is recorded as Irish[9].
  • insular script's Commons category is recorded as Insular script[10].
  • insular script's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +0700-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • insular script's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04p5ld[12].
  • insular script's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300210136[13].
  • insular script's described by source is recorded as Oxford Classical Dictionary (4th rev. ed.)[14].
  • insular script's described by source is recorded as A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600[15].
  • insular script's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/Insular-script[16].
  • insular script's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as insulærskrift[17].

Why It Matters

insular script draws 405 Wikipedia views per month (handwriting_style category, ranking #6 of 30).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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