insular script

plural insular scripts

1. biologyA medieval script originating in 7ᵗʰ-century Ireland, derived from the semi-uncial and the New Roman cursive scripts

   In Ammian. ⅹⅹ. 3. 1 secuturos thecanno VM: for secuto post haec anno; the original error must have been secutoros, with the confusion of P and R common in reading the insular script.

   1913, F[rederick] W[illiam] Hall, “Emendation” (chapter 7), in A Companion to Classical Texts, Oxford, Confusion of similar letters in Latin - P, R, page 162

   1 more example

   A St. Bertin MS. of Augustine's Letters, now at Boulogne […], written in Insular script of the same century, seems to have transcribed many of its abbreviation-symbols mechanically from a very early original

   1912, W[allace] M[artin] Lindsay, “The Abbreviation-Symbols of ergo, igitur”, in Paul Schwenke, editor, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen begründet von Otto Hartwig, Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, page 61