Marc Drogin:
Among the amusements of scribes of the Gothic era was the creation of verses employing a minimal number of letters. Some surviving examples are based on the use of i, m, n and u and v. It has been suggested that these verses were created as an example of the script's unreadability. I have seen them offered, though, only as an exercise in making a comprehensible statement with the fewest possible letters...[Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique by Marc Drogin. Dover Publications: New York, 1980]
This example concerns a letter of complaint by short actors, sent to the Senate in Rome, pointing out their desire to continue distributing to the actors wine acquired from particular vineyards near the walls.
In English the letter reads: The very short mimes of the gods of snow do not at all wish that during their lifetime the very great burden of [distributing[ the wine of the walls to be lightened.
In Latin it reads: Mimi numinum nivium minimi munium nimium vini muniminum imminui vivi minimum volunt.