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Beneventan, a.|bɛnɪˈvɛntən|
Also (formerly) Beneventine.
[It. beneventano, f. med.L. Beneventanus, f. Beneventum Benevento, province of Italy + -an.]
Of or pertaining to a medieval script principally of southern Italy.
1882Catal. Add. MSS. Brit. Mus. 1876–81 70 [Exultet Roll]..written in Italy in Lombardic or Beneventine characters of the twelfth century. 1912E. M. Thompson Introd. Gr. & Lat. Palaeogr. xvi. 348 Although the title of Lombardic is applied as a general term to the writing of Italy in the early middle ages, that title might be more properly restricted to its particular developement in the south, to which the titles [sic] of Beneventan is also given. 1914E. A. Loew Beneventan Script ii. 22 The peculiar script which grew up and flourished within the ancient duchy of Benevento..we shall consistently call..Beneventan. 1959Chambers's Encycl. X. 358/1 It is known by its mediaeval name of Beneventan script (littera Beneventana; the term ‘Lombardic’ by which it was known until quite recently should be avoided). |