Rustic capitals

Folio 14 recto of the Vergilius Romanus, author portrait of Virgil.

Rustic capitals (Latin: littera capitalis rustica) is an ancient Roman calligraphic script. Because the term is negatively connoted supposing an opposition to the more 'civilized' form of the Roman square capitals, Bernhard Bischoff prefers to call the script canonized capitals. The script was used for writing secular texts.[1]

  1. ^ Hamel, Christopher de (2016). Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. Penguin Books Limited. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-241-00309-1.