Manuscript Studies: Paleography Bibliography

Bischoff, Bernhard. Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Trans. Dibh O. Crinn and David
Ganz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in Association with the Medieval Academy of
Ireland, 1990.
Bishop, T. A. M. English Caroline Minuscule. Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1971.
Boyle, Leonard E. Medieval Latin Palaeography: A Bibliographical Introduction. Toronto Medieval
Bibliographies 8. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, in Association with the Centre for
Medieval Studies, 1984.
Brown, Julian. A Paleographer's View: The Selected Writings of Julian Brown. Ed. Janet Bately, Michelle P.
Brown, and Jane Roberts. Pref. Albinia C. de la Mare. London: Harvey Miller, 1993.
Brown, Michelle P. A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600. London: British Library,
1990.
Brown, Michelle P. The British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts: History and Techniques. The British
Library Guides. London: British Library, 1998.
Brown, Michelle P., and Patricia Lovett. The Historical Source Book for Scribes. London: British Library,
1999.
Colker, M. L. "Some Recent Works for Palaeographers." Medievalia et Humanistica 2nd ser. 8 (1977):
235-242.
Dawson, Giles E., and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton. Elizabethan Handwriting, 1500-1650: A Manual. New
York: W. W. Norton, 1966.
Denholm-Young, Nol. Handwriting in England and Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1954.
Drogin, M. Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique. Montclair, NJ: Allanheld and Schram, 1980.
Dumville, D. N. "Beowulf Come Lately: Some Notes on the Palaeography of the Nowell Codex." Archiv
fr das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 225 (1988): 49-63
Dumville, David. English Caroline Script and Monastic History: Studies in Benedictinism, AD 950-1030.
Studies in Anglo-Saxon History 6. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1993
Fairbank, A[lfred] J., and Berthold Wolpe. Renaissance Handwriting. London: Faber and Faber, 1960.
Fairbank, Alfred J. A Book of Scripts. 2nd ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952.
Francis, W. N. "Graphemic Analysis of Late Middle English Manuscripts." Speculum 37 (1962): 32-47.
Gaur, Albertine. The History of Writing. 2nd ed. London: British Library, 1993.
Grieve, Hilda E. P. Examples of English Handwriting, 1150-1750, with Transcripts and Translations. Essex
Record Office Publications 21. Chelmsford: Essex Education Committee, 1954
Hanna, Ralph. Introducing English Medieval Book History. Liverpool: LUP, 2013.
Heal, Ambrose. The English Writing-Masters and their Copy-books, 1570-1800: A Biographical Dictionary
and a Bibliography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1931.
Hector, Leonard Charles. The Handwriting of English Documents. 2nd ed. London: Edward Arnold, 1966
Jenkinson, Hilary (Sir). The Later Court Hands in England. 2 Vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1927.
John, James J. "Latin Paleography." In Medieval Studies: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Ed. James M. Powell.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992. pp. 3-81.
Johnson, C., and (Sir) Hilary Jenkinson. English Court Hand A.D. 1066-1500. 2 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1915.
Johnson, C., and H. Jenkinson. English Court Hand, A.D. 1066-1500. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1915.
Klinkenborg, Verlyn, Herbert Cahoon, and Charles Ryskamp. British Literary Manuscripts: Series 1 from
800 to 1800. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, in Association with Dover Publications,
Inc., 1981.
Knight, Stan. Historical Scripts: From Classical Times to the Renaissance. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll
Books, 1998.

Lowe, Elias Avery, ed. Codices latini antiquiores: A Palaeographical Guide to Latin Manuscripts Prior to the
Ninth Century. 12 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1972.
Lowe, Elias Avery. English Uncial. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960.
Munby, Lionel M. Reading Tudor and Stuart Handwriting. Alphabet drawn by Phillip Judge. Learning Local
History 1. Chichester, Sussex: Published by Phillimore for British Association for Local History,
1988.
Parkes, M. B. English Cursive Book Hands, 1250-1500. Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1969.
Petti, Anthony G. English Literary Hands from Chaucer to Dryden. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1977.
Preston, Jean F., and Laetitia Yeandle. English Handwriting, 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual. Pegasus
Paperbooks P6. Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (Centre for
Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, SUNY), 1992.
Rumble, Alexander R. "The Palaeography of the Domesday Manuscripts." In Domesday Book: A
Reassessment. Ed. Peter Sawyer. London and Baltimore: Edward Arnold, 1985. pp. 28-49.
Thompson, E. Maunde, G. F. Warner, F. G. Kenyon, and J. P. Gilson, et al. eds. Facsimiles of Ancient
Manuscripts, etc. The New Palaeographical Society, 2nd series. London: Oxford University Press,
for the New Palaeographical Society, 1913-1930.
Thompson, E. Maunde, G. F. Warner, F. G. Kenyon, and J. P. Gilson, eds. Facsimiles of Ancient
Manuscripts. The New Palaeographical Society, 1st series. London: Oxford UP, 1903-1912.
Thompson, E. Maunde. "Calligraphy in the Middle Ages." Bibliographica 3 (1897): 257-290.
Thompson, E. Maunde. An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912.
Thomson, S. Harrison. Latin Bookhands of the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1500. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1969.
Ullman, Berthold L. Ancient Writing and its Influence. 1932; rpt. Medieval Academy Reprints, Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1989.
Wardrop, James. The Script of Humanism: Some Aspects of Humanistic Script, 1460-1560. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1963.
Wasson, John M. Early Drama, Art, and Music Documents: A Paleography Handbook. EDAM Monograph
20. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993.
Wright, C. E. English Vernacular Hands from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Centuries. Oxford
Palaeographical Handbooks. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960.
Manuscript Studies: Codicology
Backhouse, Janet. The Sherborne Missal. London: British Library, 1999.
Caldwell, R. A. "The Scribe of the Chaucer MS, C.U.L. Gg.4.27." Modern Language Quarterly 5 (1944):
33-44.
Camille, Michael. Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Campbell, J. J. "A New Troilus Fragment." PMLA 73 (1958): 305-308. [Re: Cecil Fragment of Troilus,
Hatfield House, Box S.1
Clement, R[ichard] W. "Codicological Considerations in the Beowulf Manuscript." Proceedings of the
Illinois Medieval Association 1 (1984): 13-27.
Gerritsen, Johan. "The Thorkelin Transcripts of Beowulf: A Codicological Description, with Notes on their
Genesis and History." The Library 6th ser. 13 (1991): 1-22.
Gruys, A., and J. P. Gumbert, eds. Codicologica: Towards a Science of Handwritten Books / Vers une
science du manuscrit / Bausteine zur Handschriftenkunde. 5 vols. Litterae textuales. Leiden: E. J.
Brill, 1976-1980.
Hanna, Ralph, III. "Booklets in Medieval Manuscripts: Further Considerations." Studies in Bibliography 39
(1986): 100-111.

Moorman, Charles. The Statistical Determination of Affiliation in the Landmark Manuscripts of the
Canterbury Tales. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.
Noel, William. The Harley Psalter. Cambridge Studies in Paleography and Codicology 4. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996
O'Hara, Robert, and Peter Robinson. "Computer-Assisted Methods of Stemmatic Analysis." In The
Canterbury Tales Project: Occasional Papers Vol. 1. Ed. Norman Blake and Peter Robinson. Office
for Humanities Communication Publications 5. Oxford: Oxford University Computing Services,
1993. Pp. 53-74
Pearsall, Derek, ed. Studies in the Vernon Manuscript. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1990
Roberts, Colin H., and T. C. Skeat. The Birth of the Codex. London: Oxford University Press, for the
British Academy, 1987.
Willard, Charity C. "Codicological Observations on Some Manuscripts of the Complete Version of the
Prose Tristan." In Actes du 14e Congres International Arthurien. Ed. Charles Foulon, et al.
Rennes: Univiversit de Rennes, 1985. Pp. 658-667.
Text and Textual Studies
Bolter, J.D., and R. Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.
[Sample chapters available at <http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262522799intro1.pdf>
and <http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262522799chap1.pdf>]
Buchli, Victor (ed.). The Material Culture Reader. Oxford: Berg, 2002. [See 'Introduction', pp. 122, and
Christopher Tilleys introduction to 'Metaphor, Materiality and Interpretation', pp. 236. Both are
available in the usual course readings section.]
Clemens, Raymond, and Timothy Graham. Introduction to Manuscript Studies. London: Cornell University
Press, 2007.
Greetham, David C. Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. New York: Garland, 1994.
Pearson, David. Books as History: The Importance of Books beyond their Texts. London: British Library, 2011.
Prown, Jules David. Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method. Winterthur
Portfolio 17 (1982): 119. Available at <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1180761>
Tanselle, G. Thomas. Reproductions and Scholarship. Studies in Bibliography 42 (1989): 2554. Available at
<http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccersb?id=sibv042&images=bsuva/sb/images&data=/texts/english/bibliog/SB&tag=public&part=2&
division=div>
Wagner, Bettina, and Marcia Reed (eds). Early Printed Books as Material Objects. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur,
2010.
Drucker, Johanna. The Virtual Codex from Page Space to E-space. The Book Arts Web (2003). Available at
<http://www.philobiblon.com/drucker/>
Kichuk, Diana. Metamorphosis: Remediation in Early English Books Online (EEBO). Literary and Linguistic
Computing 22 (2007): 291303.
Kwakkel, Erik. The Cultural Dynamics of Medieval Book Production. In: Manuscripten en miniaturen: Studies
aangeboden aan Anne S. Korteweg bij haar afscheid van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Zutphen: Walburg
Pers, 2007, pp. 24352.
Lanzara, Giovan Francesco. Remediation of Practices: How New Media Change the Ways we See and Do
Things in Practical Domains. First Monday 15 (2010). Available at
<http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3034/2565>
McGann, Jerome. The Rationale of Hypertext. In: Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory. Ed.
Kathryn Sutherland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, pp. 1946. Available at
<http://books.google.com/books?id=4dZ2XSr8Q2cC&lpg=PP1&dq=Electronic%20text%3A%
20Investigations%20in%20Method%20and%20Theory%2C%20ed%20Sutherland&pg=PA19#v=
onepage&q=&f=false>
Schillingsburg, Peter L. From Gutenberg to Google. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Stinson, Timothy. Codicological Descriptions in the Digital Age. In: Kodikologie und Palographie im
Digitalen Zeitalter - Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age. Ed. Malte Rehbein, Patrick Sahle,
and Torsten Schaan. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2009, pp. 3551.
Sutherland, Kathryn. Material Text, Immaterial Text, and the Electronic Environment. Literary and
Linguistic Computing 24 (2009): 99112. Available at <http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqn033>
Terras, Melissa M. Artefacts and Errors: Acknowledging Issues of Representation in the Digital Imaging of
Ancient Texts. In: Kodikologie und Palographie im Digitalen Zeitalter 2 - Codicology and Palaeography
in the Digital Age 2. Ed. Franz Fischer, Christiane Fritz, and Georg Vogeler. Norderstedt: Books on
Demand, 2011, pp. 4364. Available at <http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4342/>
Tilley, Christopher Y. A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths, and Monuments. Oxford: Berg, 1994.
Paper
The Memory of Paper <http://www.memoryofpaper.eu:8080/BernsteinPortal/ appl_start.disp>
Bindings
Bindings of the 15th and 16th Centuries (Berlin Staatsbibliothek) <http://www.hist- einband.de/>
[German only]
British Bookbindings 16th19th centuries <http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/bindings/ index.html>
British Library Catalogue of Bookbindings <http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/>
Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious <http://
libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/index.html>
Beit-Ari, Malachi. The Codicological Data-base of the Hebrew Palaeography Project: A Tool for
Localizing and Dating Hebrew Medieval Manuscripts. In: Hebrew Studies: Papers Presented at a
Colloquium on Resources for Hebraica in Europe held at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Ed. D.
Rowland-Smith, and P. Sh. Salinger. : British Library, 1991, pp. 16597. Available at
<http://www.h-net.org/~judaic/oldlibrary/ DESCRIP.HPP.txt>
Bowman, Alan K, and J. David Thomas. The Vindolanda writing-tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses). London:
British Museum Press, 19832003. [See esp. Vol. I Ch. 3, available at
<http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/tablets/TVI-1-3.shtml>
Bustarret, Claire. Paper Evidence and the Interpretation of the Creative Process in Modern Literary Manuscripts. 2008.
Available at <http://www.item.ens.fr/index.php? id=223428>
Ornato, Ezio (ed.). La Face cache du livre mdival: L'Histoire du livre. Rome: Viella, 1997.
Codex Sinaiticus. London: The British Library, . Available at <http:// www.codexsinaiticus.org/> [See
especially the section on parchment and codicology at
<http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/project/conservation_parchment.aspx> and <http://
codexsinaiticus.org/en/project/conservation_codicology.aspx>]
Ash, Nancy E. Recording Watermarks by Beta-Radiography and Other Means. The Book and Paper Group
Annual 1 (1982). Available at <http://cool.conservation-us.org/
coolaic/sg/bpg/annual/v01/bp01-02.html>
Bischoff, F.M., and M. Maniaci. Pergament - Handschriftenformate - Lagenkonstruktion. Scrittura e
Civilt 19 (1995): 277319.
Boyle, Roger D., and Hiary Hazem. Watermark Location via Back-Lighting and Recto Removal.
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition 12 (2009): 33 46. Available at
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10032-009-0080-1> [Very technical. Skip all the maths and focus
on the discussion.]
Briquet, C.-M. Les filigranes: dictionnaire historique des marques de papier ds leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en
1600. Genve: A. Jullien, 1907.
Brown, T. J., With a technical description of the binding by, Roger Powell, and Peter Waters (eds). The
Stonyhurst Gospel of St John. Oxford: University Press for the Roxburghe Club, 1969.
Brown, T. J. The Distribution and Significance of Membrane Prepared in the Insular Manner. In: Le
Palographie Hbraque Mdivale. Paris, 1974, pp. 12735.

Brown, Michelle. The British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts: History and Techniques. London: The British
Library, 1998.
Hobson, G.D. English Binding before 1500. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1929.
Hobson, G.D. Some Early Bindings and Binder's Tools. The Library new series, 19 (1938/9): 20249.
Jones, L.W. Pricking Manuscripts: The Instruments and their Significance. Speculum 21 (1946): 389403.
Maniaci, M., and P.F. Munaf. Ancient and Medieval Book Materials and Techniques. Vatican: Biblioteca Vaticana
Apostolica, 1993.
Mazal, O. Medieval Bookbinding. In: The Book through Five Thousand Years. Ed. H.D.L. Vervliet. London:
Phaidon, 1972, pp. 31438.
Muzerelle, D. Vocabulaire codicologique. 2003. Available at <http:// vocabulaire.irht.cnrs.fr/vocab.htm>
Needham, Paul. Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings, 4001600. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Nixon, H.M. The Binding of Winton Domesday. In: Winchester in the Early Middle Ages. Ed. Martin Biddle.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976, pp. 52640.
Pollard, G. The Construction of English Twelfth-Century Bindings. The Library 5th series, 17 (1962): 1
22.
Pollard, G. Some Anglo-Saxon Bookbindings. The Book Collector 24 (1975): 13054.
Pollard, G. Describing Medieval Bookbindings. In: Medieval Learning and Literature: Essays Presented to R.W.
Hunt. Ed. J. J. G. Alexander, and M. T. Gibson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976, pp. 5065.
Powell, Roger. The Stonyhurst Gospel: (b) The Binding. In: The Relics of Saint Cuthbert. Ed. C. F.
Battiscombe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956, pp. 36274.
Reed, Ronald. The Nature and Making of Parchment. Leeds: Elmete Press, 1975.
van Regemorter, Berthe. Binding Structures in the Middle Ages: A Selection of Studies. London: Maggs Brothers,
1992.
Robinson, P. R. The `Booklet': A Self-Contained Unit in Composite Manuscripts. In: Codicologica. Ed. A.
Gruys, and J. Peter Gumbert. Leiden: Brill, 1980, pp. 4669.
Stinson, Timothy. Counting Sheep: Potential Applications of DNA Analysis to the Study of Medieval
Parchment Production. In: Kodikologie und Palographie im Digitalen Zeitalter 2 - Codicology and
Palaeography in the Digital Age 2. Ed. Franz Fischer, Christiane Fritz, and Georg Vogeler.
Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2011.
Stokes, Peter Anthony. Codicology. In: The Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. R. Clark, and H. Magennis. 2006.
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