More Cassinese Manuscripts

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Some more Montecassino manuscripts, from the same morning as MC318.  These are a somewhat random smattering of texts, though mostly musical, written in Beneventan script. 

Music and related manuscripts

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Flyleaf removed from the binding of a different manuscript, cataloged as Compactiones XXII

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Flyleaf removed from the binding of a different manuscript, cataloged as Compactiones XXII. This one includes at the bottom, following the rubric "ali communion Ambrosiano" the communion for St. Benedict, most probably composed at Montecassino

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A page of Glorias from a sacramentary, MC339

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Page of text and music from a notated Missel, MC540

Non-Musical Manuscripts

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Some late, Bari-type Benventan script, note the increased width of the letters and greater leading, from the Sacramentary MC339.  The purple is from a bit of corruption in the image file, not original to the manuscript.

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A page of text with a large illuminated letter "O" from the same Bari sacramentary, MC339

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The opening of the Gospel of John ("In principio erat verbum et verbum erat...") from the same notated Missel, MC540

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Follow-up to a pair of posts on the manuscripts of Montecassino (here and there), some photos of the monastery proper. Outside Spaces Entrance cloister of Montecassino with the statue of the death of St. BenedictSo-called Bramante Courtyard, the statue... Read More

As part of the same trip that took me to the Monastary of Montecassino (see some manuscripts, more manuscripts or the sights ), I spend about 2 days in the small town of Benevento, about 30 min farther south. Introduction... Read More

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