Donation Written in CarolineKing Louis the Stammerer

This parchment charter (879) records King Louis the Stammerer’s donation to Count Alleaume, sealed with wax. Written in Caroline minuscule, created under Charlemagne’s reforms, it offered clarity, roundness, and spacing that eased copying and reading. Adopted from 820 in monasteries such as Corbie and Tours, it became the dominant script of medieval Europe until the 15th c.