The only monograph describing the development of one of the major medieval regional scripts remains The Beneventan script by E. A. Lowe (1914, 2nd edn, enlarged by V. Brown, 1980); manuscripts in this script are important because of where they were written: southern Italy, including Monte Cassino. Lowe included in his book all of the manuscripts and fragments known to him, and subsequent discoveries he gathered in a paper published in 1962. After his death in 1969 his assistant during the last year of his life, Virginia Brown, continued to seek out examples, and in five papers that appeared in in Mediaeval Studies between 1978 and 2008 published the results of her searches. The present book brings together these papers and provides a list of all known examples of the script included in Lowe's publications and those of Brown, as well as a very useful and valuable index of their content, a remarkably high proportion of which is liturgical. Brown intended, after her retirement from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, to produce a more elaborate and extensive version of such a book, now never to appear because of her early death. Roger E. Reynolds has brought together the basic material on which Brown intended to work, and includes a touching memoir and account of the scholarly achievements of his friend and colleague, perhaps best known to the wider community of medievalists as the editor of Mediaeval Studies between 1974 and 1988. There is a growing number of fundamental publications concerning Beneventan script (including Brown's own studies concerned with Beneventan manuscripts, Terra Sancti Benedicti), and the present book sits well with them on the shelf.