Visigothic Script

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Descriptions of scripts are from Michelle Brown's A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 London, The British Library: 1990

Visigothic minuscule was amongst the more successful of the national hands in its fusion of New Roman Cursive and Half-Uncial forms, with a heavier emphasis upon the latter than most of its counterparts. Uncials are also introduced (such as the G). The result is a highly legible script. This factor, along with freedom from Carolingian influence in all but parts of Catalonia, presumably contributed to the long-lived nature of this script, which survived until the introduction of Caroline minuscule in s. xii.

The Morgan Beatus, Pierpont Morgan Library (New York NY), Ms. 644, fol. 239. Image presented by permission of G. Braziller, (New York NY).

[con]tinere. Siquid au[te]m ultra
opinatus sit quae futura
nescierit esse mentitum