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<jats:p>A number of manuscripts from Southern Italy, almost all of them written in ‘Beneventan’ script and neumes, contain chants that are not the usual Gregorian assignments. These unusual chants have come generally to be known as Old Beneventan; in the manuscripts, however, a number of them are designated “Ambrosian”. That these chants are in any real sense Ambrosian has never been taken very seriously, even though there is very good evidence for doing so.</jats:p>