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(More customer reviews)This volume ranks with E.K. Rand's Studies in the Script of Tours, or Bernard Bischoff's Sudostdeutsch Schreibschulen (but it is much more readable than the latter), as one of the major paleographical studies of the twentieth century. The product of 35 years of study at Monte Cassino and in libraries throughout Europe and North America, this book presents the first comprehensive study of any medieval writing center to fully integrate paleographical research with the study of medieval libraries, the transmission of texts -classical, patristic, and medieval - with medieval Latin literature, art history and architectural history, medieval liturgy and music, medieval medicine and science. In short, it presents the manuscripts from eleventh- and twelfth-century Monte Cassino in their contemporary context. Detailed analyses of the scribes and scribal practices are illustrated by numerous plates. Every scholar interested in medieval writing and every teacher of Latin paleography or manuscript studies should have this book to hand, and should read it again and again.
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In all the history of hand-written books, one of the most distinctive and handsome scripts is that of the abbey of Monte Cassino in its classic form. This study shows how the scribes of the late eleventh century developed their geometrical style of handwriting and thoroughly investigates and illustrates its rules and conventions. The book provides a background for the world-famous copies of works--many of them uniquely preserved at Monte Cassino--of classical authors, church Fathers, and medieval writers.
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