beneventan script

A unique Beneventan script was also developed for writing Latin.

There is also use of punctuation such as the question mark, as in Beneventan script of the same period.

"A note on the Beneventan script."

The unique Beneventan script flourished there during Desiderius' abbacy.

Visigothic script has many similarities with Beneventan script and Merovingian script.

Elias Avery Lowe: The Beneventan Script.

Beneventan script was a medieval script, so called because it originated in the Duchy of Benevento in southern Italy.

Along with resemblances to Carolingian and Visigothic, Merovingian shares some features with Beneventan script.

Beneventan script (VIII')

In other scripts there is often little or no punctuation, but standard punctuation forms were developed for the Beneventan script, including the basis for the modern question mark.

Montecassino was also the starting point for another characteristic of Beneventan monasticism, the use of the distinct Beneventan script, a clear, angular scrip derived from the Roman cursive as used by the Lombards.

Each region seems to have developed its own standards following the main monastery of the region (i.e. Merovingian script, Laon script, Luxeuil Abbey, Visigothic script, Beneventan script), which are mostly cursive and hardly readable.

In fact the text of Fabulae was all but lost: a single surviving manuscript from the abbey of Freising, in a Beneventan script datable c. 900, formed the material for the first printed edition, negligently and uncritically transcribed by Jacob Micyllus, 1535, who may have supplied it with the title we know it by.