Other Scripts
Anglo-Caroline
The evental supplanter of Insular Minuscule, Anglo-Caroline is the other minuscule (lower case) script I’m comfortable working in. It is much more readily readable to the modern eye, with all the letters easily recognisable. This said, individual scribes could from habit or as a stylistic decision continue to use insular forms among an otherwise entirely orthodox Anglo-Caroline hand. These native influences help to differentiate Anglo-Caroline from Caroline Minuscule, its close continental cousin. Anglo-Caroline had a significant influence on the Foundational Hand devised by Edward Johnston, whose pupils went on to form the Society of Scribes and Illuminators.
I will add images of work in Anglo-Caroline at a later date, hopefully in the near future!
Capital Scripts
While the bodies of texts would be written in minuscule, capitals were also used in the mediæval period – though not as we use them today. A capital would usually be used for the first letter, word or words, line or lines, of a text – but sometimes for entire books, there is no hard and fast rule. They might also be used for the first letter of significant words, where it coincided with the start of a line. Capitals were not used for the starts of all names, as now, or at the start of every sentence. The letters looked much as they do now, with some variation in style that can be typified as differences in proportion and curviness. For instance, Rustic Capitals are flowing letters, that can become fairly narrow, and would compliment a passage in Insular Minuscule, whereas Roman Capitals are more precise, and would go well with the more formal Caroline Minuscule.
Some capitals can be seen in images around this site. I will be adding capital-specific images to this section when I have them.
The choice is yours.
I will write the text you want in in the hand you want, and am able to do so in more scripts than just the ones listed here. That said, I am much happier working in a script that I know is right, and that I know I can do well.
If you really want a passage from the Book of Kells writing in fourteenth century Gothic Book Script, I’ll do my best, but I’d recommend in the strongest terms that you opt for Insular Magescule: it’s correct, I’ll do a much better job (I’m rubbish at Gothic, trust me!), and I’ll actually admit to having written it afterwards.