These are surviving portions of codices (books) written in Greek uncial (capital) letters on papyrus. Another way of dividing handwriting is between uncial script (or majuscule) and minuscule. The cursive writing thus foreshadows the specifically uncial forms. The Greek text was written on papyrus in uncial letters. The other two Greek codices written in that way are Uncial 048 and Uncial 053. The descenders were borrowed from a Byzantine uncial shape of uppercase Delta. The text was written on papyrus in uncial letters. Vox originally included the blackletter and uncial faces in this categorization. Usually, the majuscule scripts such as uncial are written with much more care. It is one of the four Great uncial codices. Some other manuscripts&colon; Uncial 075, Uncial 0161, Minuscule 798. The codex has almost 4,000,000 uncial letters. The last dated pottery are dishes with crude uncial Greek inscriptions from 1678. Codex Alexandrinus received symbol A and opened the list of the NT uncial manuscripts. Early uncial script most likely developed from late Rustic capitals.