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Latin Alphabet

The script of the Vulgate and of Western theology, carried in insular and Carolingian minuscule hands through the medieval schools and now the most widely used script in the world.

Languages Written in This Script

The Codex Gigas, the largest surviving medieval illuminated manuscript

Liturgical only Latin Jerome's Vulgate made Latin the translation, liturgical, and scholarly language of Western Christianity for over a millennium. Indo-European

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