Abby Phelps Lytle, head of the Purdue art department, designs a new, official seal for the university. Lytle’s design incorporates three motifs still seen in the seal today: the shield, the griffin ...

In addition, the ancients had two other styles of writing: the lapidary (from the Latin word, lapis, meaning stone) and the uncial (from the Latin word uncia, meaning inch). The lapidary style was ...

The books appear, moreover, to be a carefully-designed fair copy of the exemplar or sets of exemplars. Quite apart from the Roman uncial in which it is written, that it is a compilation produced for ...

The oldest existing codices of the Christian Bible are all parchment copies, written in uncial letters, and dating from the fourth century. Among these oldest existing Bibles the following are the ...

It is technically in a kind of uncial script. The colourful knotwork carpet- pages of the Lindisfarne Gospel may be ...

Meyer (Leipzig, 1835), A. Riese, ed. 1 (Leipzig, 1869-70), E. Baehrens (Poet. Lat. Min. IV (1882)), and the still ruling Teubner, A. Riese, ed. 2 (1894). Many poems are preserved only in the uncial ...