Insular minuscule script

Some examples of insular minuscule script are found here: Shown here in the word "wæge" ("cup") are runic forms in insular minuscule script: ash (æ), wynn ("w"), flat-topped "g," and "e"


http://litmuse.maconstate.edu/litwiki/index.php/Image:Ash_insular.jpg

distinctive features include three forms of "s" http://litmuse.maconstate.edu/litwiki/index.php/Image:S_variation_1.jpg ; and the initial "s: shown here in "swifta" http://litmuse.maconstate.edu/litwiki/index.php/Image:S_variation_2.jpg ; the "r" with a long descender;

These examples are taken from folio 180r in Beowulf: Reproduced in Facsimile from the Unique Manuscript British Museum MS. Cotton Vitellius A. xv. Transliterated by Julius Zupitza. 2d ed. Early English Text Society, o.s., 77. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959.