ABSTRACT
Evidence continues to accumulate for the prolonged use of Beneventan script at Naples into the first half of the sixteenth century. Nine witnesses representing eight codices have been analyzed and identified as Neapolitan products of the Cinquecento. This chapter discusses many similarities in the way the scribes of S and other sixteenth-century Neapolitan manuscripts in Beneventan functioned in this regard. Codicological and palaeographical data show that the odds are strong indeed that S is a product of the scriptorium of the Benedictine monastery of Santa Patrizia at Naples. This is reinforced by the presence in S of the ordo ad communicandum which also appears in monastic manuscripts copied at other Benedictine centers, namely, Montecassino and Benevento. Considerations of space require that only those texts for which unpublished parallels have not yet been located can be reproduced in full; otherwise incipits and explicits are given. It is helpful to note again that texts are numbered serially by arabic numbers in boldface.
