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Unlock the history of a rare script that shaped southern Italian manuscripts.
This authoritative study reveals how Beneventan minuscule developed, flourished, and influenced medieval book culture.
The book surveys the South Italian script through its scribes, subscriptions, and minute features. It situates Beneventan writing in a rich monastic and regional context, with careful analysis of how letters, abbreviations, and marginal notes illuminate the life of medieval manuscripts.- Explore the lives of notable Beneventan scribes and the traces they left in colophons and marginalia.
- Learn how the script adapts through centuries and across monastic centers like Monte Cassino.
- Examine the abbreviations, letterforms, and stylistic quirks that distinguish Beneventan writing.
- See how textual evidence from manuscripts informs broader paleographic and historical questions.
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