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Article: The Scriptorium and Library at Monte Cassino, 1058-1105.
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The Scriptorium and Library at Monte Cassino, 1058-1105. By Francis Newton. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxvi + 421 pp.+ 4 plates (color), 212 plates (black and white). $175.00 cloth.
The dust jacket of this book displays a large segment of an illustration from fol. 2r of Vatican Library MS Vat. lat. 1202, a late eleventh-century Cassinese lectionary for the feasts of three great Benedictine saints, the founder himself, his sister St. Scholastica, and his disciple St. Maur. (This illumination is of great importance and, wholly or in part, is found also on p. 66, p. 295, and again in a marvelous ...