The Beneventan Script: A History of the South Italian Minuscule
by Loew, E.A. [Elias Avery Loew, 1879-1969]
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914. 1st edition. A classic study in regional paleography, detailing the development and decline of the Beneventan script. A scholarly work on all aspects of the enduring script used from the 8th to the 13th centuries throughout southern Italy. Two facsimiles in the text + 15 facsimiles on 9 plates. Map of Italy showing Monte Cassino and other important Beneventan centers. Appendix listing more than 600 extant manuscripts and fragments. Clothbound quarto. 384 pp. VG in clear archival jacket. Owner signature from 1923. Endpapers browned, but text is clean. Laid-in Bernard Quaritch shipping label from 1967. A solid copy of the uncommon first edition. (Italian paleography; Medieval manuscripts.)
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- Lux Libri (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000056
- Title
- The Beneventan Script: A History of the South Italian Minuscule
- Author
- Loew, E.A. [Elias Avery Loew, 1879-1969]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1914
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medieval;
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