This post is a collection of quotes about Carolingian miniscule and humanist miniscule. There are 3 quotes listed below.
1. "Carolingian miniscule was uniform with rounded shapes in clearly distinguishable glyphs, disciplined and above all, legible. Clear capital letters and spaces between words became standard..." (Wikipedia: Carolingian miniscule, 4.9.25 UTC 12:02)
2. "Carolingian minuscule was created partly under the patronage of the Emperor Charlemagne... Although Charlemagne was never fully literate, he understood the value of literacy and uniform script in running his empire." (Wikipedia: Carolingian miniscule, 4.9.25 UTC 12:02)
3. "[Humanist miniscule] was based on Carolingian miniscule... Petrarch was one of the few medieval authors to have written at any length on the handwriting of his time; in his essay on the subject, La scrittura, he criticized the current scholastic hand, with its laboured strokes and exuberant letter-forms amusing the eye from a distance, but fatiguing on closer exposure, as if written for another purpose than to be read." (Wikipedia: Humanist miniscule, 1.7.25 UTC 02:50)
