The printing press has definitively made it disappear from common usage.
At the beginning of the 9th century, the tiny caroline tends to replace it and it is no longer used except to trace the beginnings of books, chapters or sections, like our capital letters. It is the writing par excellence of the codices, adapted to the pen. It was created from capital letters and ancient Roman cursive. The uncial is a specific spelling of the Latin and Greek alphabets used from the 3rd to the 8th centuries.
