Scribal Innovations
Martianus was an innovative calligrapher, contributing greatly to what is called the 'grammar of legibility' by use of word separation and punctuation, almost unheard of in his lifetime. In place of his native insular script, "in his role as teacher and supervisor of a school of scribes he cultivated the use of Carolingian minuscule of a very neat and legible type." (Breen, 2009, p. 405)
At least twenty-one manuscripts survive containing specimens of his autograph, now housed in Laon, Paris and Berlin.
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