I've been fascinated for a long time with the problem of reproducing medieval scribal hands in digital fonts. My latest effort is a font called "Eadui," based on the hand of Eadui Basan, the head scribe at Christ Church, Canterbury, in the early eleventh century. It exploits OpenType features so as to avoid, so far as possible, the machined look of most "medieval" fonts. The better an application's support for advanced typography, the better this font will look. (Best: XeTeX or InDesign; good: iWork or Mellel; poor: OpenOffice.)
The current version of Eadui is a beta. I will give a free copy of the final font, when it's ready, to anyone who downloads this and sends bug reports, feature requests or impressions. Get it here:
http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/junicode/eadui.html
Best wishes to all, Peter Baker