Of the many books written in square capitals, the éditions de luxe of ancient times, only a few fragments have survived, the most famous being pages from manuscripts of Virgil.Cf. Émile Chatelain, Paléographie des classiques latins , pl. LXI-II, LXXV; Oxyrhynchus Papyri, viii, 1,098. The finest examples of rustic capitals, the use of which is attested by papyri of the 1st century,Cf. Karl Zangemeister & Wilhelm Wattenbach, Exempla codicum Latinorum, Koester, 1876, pl. I-II. are to be found in manuscripts of VirgilCf. Pal. Soc., cit., pl. 113-117; Archivio paleografico italiano, i, p. 98. and Terence.Cf. Pal. Soc., pl. 135. Neither of these forms of capital writing offers any difficulty in reading, except that no space is left between the words. Their dates are still uncertain, in spite of attempts to determine them by minute observation.Cf. Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko, Untersuchungen über ausgewählte Kapitel des antiken Buchwesens, BiblioBazaar, repr. 2010; E.A. Lowe, "More Facts about our Oldest Latin Manuscripts" , in the Classical Quarterly, vol. xix, p. 197.
Of the many books written in square capitals, the éditions de luxe of ancient times, only a few fragments have survived, the most famous being pages from manuscripts of Virgil.Cf. Émile Chatelain, Paléographie des classiques latins , pl. LXI-II, LXXV; Oxyrhynchus Papyri, viii, 1,098. The finest examples of rustic capitals, the use of which is attested by papyri of the 1st century,Cf. Karl Zangemeister & Wilhelm Wattenbach, Exempla codicum Latinorum, Koester, 1876, pl. I-II. are to be found in manuscripts of VirgilCf. Pal. Soc., cit., pl. 113-117; Archivio paleografico italiano, i, p. 98. and Terence.Cf. Pal. Soc., pl. 135. Neither of these forms of capital writing offers any difficulty in reading, except that no space is left between the words. Their dates are still uncertain, in spite of attempts to determine them by minute observation.Cf. Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko, Untersuchungen über ausgewählte Kapitel des antiken Buchwesens, BiblioBazaar, repr. 2010; E.A. Lowe, "More Facts about our Oldest Latin Manuscripts" , in the Classical Quarterly, vol. xix, p. 197.