Interesting script

MS bifolium fragment; vellum; 200 x 290  mm

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Written in Beneventan script, developed and used in the scriptorium of the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino. Written in brown ink with opening initial of each verse of the Psalm in red. 17 of the original 18 long lines surviving. This peculiarly medieval script, derived from Roman cursive script, came into use around the mid- 8th century and flourished in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries;.it was still used at Monte Cassino as late as in the 16th. Specimens of this scripts, even fragments, are rare, as Brown's list indicates.

The text contains parts of Psalms 21, 25, and 26.

Passages of interlinear text are in smaller contemporary hand. Recovered from a binding.      

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