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A Digital Journey into the Memory of Montecassino
Those familiar with MeMo – Memory of Montecassino know that its mission is to bring together memory and innovation, reviving – and making accessible – the written treasures of the Abbey. But every great endeavor also needs tools that can…
The Library of Montecassino: A Thousand-Year History
From Archive to Library For centuries at Montecassino, the library and the archive shared the same space. Documents and manuscripts were kept together under the care of a monk who, as Pietro Diacono recalls, served simultaneously as cartularius, scriniarius, and…
The roots of the Abbey of Montecassino run deep through written records
Paul Fridolin Kehr once described the Montecassino archive as “a true diplomatic repository, rivaled by only a few archives in the world.” But the archive is more than that: it has been one with the Abbey, breathing with it, following…
Memory of Montecassino: the power of collaboration between research, results and comparison
Over the course of these years, the MeMo project has consolidated itself not only as an ambitious program of digitization of the valuable written records preserved in the Abbey, but also as a point of reference and a catalyst for…
Music spreads through manuscripts
The music collection of the Abbey of Montecassino was established, as a result of successive donations, from the end of the 18th century through the 20th century. Part of this rich collection is a group of 72 choirbooks, dating from…
The Bible at Montecassino
The Archive of the Montecassino's Abbey preserves 96 biblical manuscripts, datable between the 11th and 15th centuries. They were produced both in the Abbey's scriptorium and in other geographical areas of medieval Italy and Europe. This substantial corpus represents a…
Manuscripts of Montecassino
The manuscripts of the early Middle Ages In the early Middle Ages, the Cassinese scriptorium stood out for its intense cultural activity, characterized mainly by the collection and transcription of sacred and classical texts. The most important examples from this…