Beneventan

The script of the Abbey of Montecassino, widely used throughout the Middle Ages in southern Italy and the Adriatic region.

The script of the Abbey of Montecassino, widely used throughout the Middle Ages in southern Italy and the Adriatic region. Beneventan is characterized by a "broken minim" and a distinctive group of ligatures and abbreviations.

  • Spanish:
    beneventano

Bernhard Bischoff, Latin Palaeography (Cambridge, England; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 109-111. 

E.A. Lowe, The Beneventan Script: A History of the South Italian Minuscule, 2nd ed. (Roma : Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1980).

Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007), 151-152.