The Beneventan Script. A History of the South Italian Minuscule.

LOEW, E.A.

ISBN 10: 0199240159 / ISBN 13: 9780199240159

Published by Oxford, Oxford University Press-Sandpiper Books Ltd- 1999, 1998

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Original publisher's dark-blue paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, light-blue dustjacket, 2nd printing [1914], large 8vo: xx, 384pp. [2], facsimiles, footnotes, bibliographical notes, list of ca. 600 Beneventan MSS. index mss. indexauthorities. - as new. Script, milieu of its development, the bookswritten in it, and the prominent centres and individuals engaged in the copying over a period of over 500 years.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Beneventan Script. A History of the South Italian Minuscule.
• Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press-Sandpiper Books Ltd- 1999
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199240159
• ISBN 13: 9780199240159
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

The beneventan script was a medieval script which originated in the Duchy of Benevento in southern Italy. It was also called Langobarda, Longobarda, Longobardisca (signifying its origins with the Lombards), or sometimes Gothica; it was first called Beneventan by palaeographer E. A. Lowe. In this book he gives a detailed, informed history of its development.