Greek manuscripts that are written in small letters that are usually joined to each other as in cursive script These manuscripts are more recent than the Uncial manuscripts, which are written in large capital letters that are separate from each other
During the ninth century a reform in handwriting occurred from which was developed a script of small letters in a running hand call minuscule This cursive script became popular for the production of books
a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell"
If you describe something as minuscule, you mean that it is very small. The film was shot in 17 days, a minuscule amount of time. = minute. extremely small = minute (minusculus , from minor ). Lowercase letters in calligraphy, in contrast to majuscule, or uppercase letters. Unlike majuscules, minuscules are not fully contained between two real or hypothetical lines; their stems can go above or below the line. Developed by Alcuin in the 8th century, it allowed the division of writing into sentences and paragraphs by beginning sentences with capital letters and ending them with periods. The script was originally rounded, but gradually the strokes became heavier until it became what is now known as Gothic or black letter script