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Benedictine Landscapes in Dialogue: Networks Across Time
From 25 to 28 November 2025, the conference “I paesaggi benedettini. Territorio, patrimonio culturale e spiritualità ”, promoted by DTC Lazio and hosted in key sites of the Benedictine tradition – including Subiaco, Montecassino, and other centres – brought together…
The Master on the Ancient Book Meets MeMo: A Week of Studies Between Montecassino and the University of Cassino
Five full days of activities — including lectures, guided tours, and hands-on workshops — marked the in-person study week of the Second-Level Master’s Program Methods, Tools, Technologies for the Analysis, Description, and Documentation of Ancient Manuscript and Printed Heritage. The…
New Technologies for Ancient Fragments: The MeMo – MAGIC Collaboration
A new and prestigious collaboration has taken shape between MeMo – Memory of Montecassino and the MAGIC project of the University of Naples Federico II, marking an important step toward building a national network devoted to the digital preservation of…
The Forms of the Biblical Manuscript: A Seminar Opening New Pathways in Research
From 15 to 17 October 2025, the Aula Magna of the Department of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Cassino hosted the training seminar “The Forms of the Biblical Manuscript. Methodological Approaches and Research Perspectives ”, organised within the…
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…
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