When were both minuscule and majuscule letters used for the first time in the same Latin manuscript?
score:7
Accepted answer
I'd say Half-Uncial (3rd Century AD) and Carolingian (9th Century AD) scripts; as it says in the Wikipedia text for the latter,
Clear capital letters and spaces between words – norms we take for granted – became standard in Carolingian minuscule [...]
So it was the first time both capitals and minuscules were used in a standard way (instead of ocassionally as with previous minuscule scripts). I don't think it would be possible to pinpoint exactly which was the first text ever to use them together, though.
More post
- 📝 When did the earliest documented cases of beaching of ocean-dwelling animals (fishes, whales, etc) happen?
- 📝 Did the 'founding fathers' of the United States see Oliver Cromwell as a role model?
- 📝 Why are Mary I, Mary II and Anne not as famous as Elizabeth I, Victoria and Elizabeth II?
- 📝 How useful were Chinese contributions to the defeat of Japan in WWII?
- 📝 Is there documentary evidence that Stalin intended/prepared to fight Germany after the Nazi-Soviet pact?
- 📝 What was the social condition of a pregnant single woman in the late 1970s in England?
- 📝 Why could no one reach the southernmost tip of India?
- 📝 Why is this hat identified as the Byzantine Imperial kamelaukion?
- 📝 What is the meaning of the quadruple symbols combination on a possibly Roman monumental piece?
- 📝 What happened to all the nuclear material being smuggled after the fall of the USSR?
- 📝 Is there an objective measure of decadence?
- 📝 Did the Soviet Union hand over thousands of Jews to the Nazis in the spirit of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact?
- 📝 How were the holes for the guns in battleships' turrets protected?
- 📝 Were there many foreigners fighting during the American civil war?
- 📝 Have sanctions ever stopped a nation from starting or continuing a war?
- 📝 Why didn't France and the UK invade Germany in September 1939?
- 📝 Japan allying with Germany in WWII
- 📝 Did Mesopotamia have coins to represent Gerahs & Minas?
- 📝 Why didn't Saudi unification include the coastal states of Qatar, the UAE, Oman, Yemen, and Kuwait?
- 📝 When did the number of motor driven vehicles surpass the number of horse driven vehicles in Paris, London, Berlin?
- 📝 Who was a "gentleman" in USA in the times of Tom Sawyer?
- 📝 In view of the widespread use of the term "Semitic", which groups of people are classified as being of Hamitic ethnicity?
- 📝 Are there primary sources about Jinnah's vision for Pakistan?
- 📝 Who would attend a coronation in medieval France?
- 📝 What cipher did Jefferson and Madison use to correspond?
- 📝 Were some categories of French-Jewish people treated better by Vichy anti-Jewish laws
- 📝 How do we know baroque art depicted obese ladies because of a different ideal of beauty?
- 📝 Can the assignment "Depot Battalion" in Hart's Annual Army List be linked to a specific regimental assignment?
- 📝 When did the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad connect Baltimore city to any Ohio city?
- 📝 Was there a movement for "humane" slavery?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 When were both minuscule and majuscule letters used for the first time in the same Latin manuscript?
- 📝 When were public tariffs and taxes for water supply introduced for the first time?
- 📝 When did the Pakistan army used tank for the first time during the 1971 Bangladesh war?
- 📝 When were the first heating apparatus used for bathing?
- 📝 When was the term for WW2 first used and was it more popular in, say, US before Europe?
- 📝 When and where were the first coins made showing the currency or a face value?
- 📝 When and where was the first time moveable bridge?
- 📝 When was King John of England given the name 'Dollheart', and who first used it?
- 📝 Was the Seven Years’ War the first time dogs were used to carry messages?
- 📝 When did pilots experience blackouts and redouts for the first time?
- 📝 When is the first time any variation of the name Misraim is used to refer to Egypt?
- 📝 Where and why were capital letters first used in English headlines?
- 📝 What is the source for the Arabic name of the penguin and when it is first used?
- 📝 What were the requirements for Iron Cross first and second class?
- 📝 Is there a reconstruction for whom and when were the peoples of the ancient Levant just before Israel, Judea and Edom?
- 📝 When was the term "Dravida" first used and what is the context with which it was presented?
- 📝 When was the first time that concrete was used in Indian Subcontinent?
- 📝 What incentives were there for Soviet and Chinese politicians to try climb to the top when there was so much history of deposing their own?
- 📝 Were there any crops and livestock common to both the Old and New Worlds prior to the Columbian exchange?
- 📝 When did the English and Americans realize that vegetables were healthy?
- 📝 When were US Presidential candidates' names first shown on the ballot?
- 📝 When and how did the West lose its dependency on the USSR for Titanium?
- 📝 What were the original casualty projections for Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
- 📝 When was the first time Rome was mentioned in outside records (and specifically, in Greek ones)?
- 📝 How many pens were used by MacArthur to end the final chapter of World War II and where are they now?
- 📝 Did anyone warn about the potential for stock market crashes in 1929, and if so why were their warnings ignored?
- 📝 When was "diablo" first used to refer to the Devil?
- 📝 Why are Vikings singled out for raids in Britain and Ireland when records may indicate most raids were by local rulers?
- 📝 Were the animals used for gladiatorial combat in Rome trained?
- 📝 When did Abu Bakr agree to lower taxes for the Arabs living under the rule of Byzantine and Sassanid Empire?