Paleography and Codicology: Introductory Bibliography

Bischoff, Bernhard. Latin Paleography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Trans. Daibhi Ó Croinin and David Ganz. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.

-----. Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne. Trans. Michael M. Gorman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bishop, T. A. M. English Caroline Minuscule. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971.

Brown, Michelle. A Guide to Western Historical Scripts: From Antiquity to 1600. London : British Library, 1990.

De Hamel, Christopher. Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Book Trade. Woodbridge and Wolfeboro, N.H.: Boydell & Brewer, 1984.

-----. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. 2nd ed. London : Phaidon Press, 1994.

Doyle, A. I. and M. B. Parkes. "The Production of Copies of the Canterbury Tales and the Confessio Amantis in the Early Fifteenth Century." Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts & Libraries: Essays Presented to N. R. Ker. Ed. M. B. Parkes and Andrew G. Watson. London: Scolar Press, 1978. 163-210.

Gilissen, Léon. L'Expertise des écritures médiévales. Ghent: Editions Scientifiques, 1973.

-----. Prolégoménes à la codicologie: recherches sur la construction des cahiers et la mise en page des manuscrits médiévaux. Ghent: Editions Scientifiques, 1977.

Hector, L. C. The Handwriting of English Documents. 2nd ed. London, Edward Arnold, 1966.

Ker, N. R. English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1960.

-----. Books, Collectors, and Libraries : Studies in the Medieval Heritage. Edited by Andrew G. Watson. London: Ronceverte, W. Va. : Hambledon Press, 1985.

Lowe, E. A. ed. Codices Latini Antiquiores: A Palaeographical Guide to Latin Manuscripts Prior to the Ninth Century. 12 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1934-1966.

-----. English Uncial. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1960.

Morrison, Stanley. Politics and Script: Aspects of Authority and Freedom in the Development of Greco-Latin Script from the Sixth Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.

Parkes, Malcolm. English Cursive Book Hands, 1250-1500. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1980.

-----. Scribes, Scripts, and Readers: Studies in the Communication, Presentation, and Dissemination of Medieval Texts. London, U.K. ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1991.

-----. Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993.

Petti, Anthony G. English Literary Hands from Chaucer to Dryden. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1977.

Stiennon, Jacques. Paleographie du Moyen Age. 2nd ed. Paris : A. Colin, 1991.

Thompson, Edward Maunde. An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography. Oxford: Clarendon , 1912.

Thomson, Samuel Harrison. Latin Bookhands of the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1500. London: Cambridge UP, 1969.

Ullman, B. L. Ancient writing and its influence. (with a new intro. by Julian Brown.) Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press, 1969.

Reference Works

Boyle, Leonard E. Medieval Latin Palaeography: A Bibliographical Introduction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.

Cappelli, Adriano. Lexicon abbreviaturarum. 5th ed. Milan: Hoepli, 1954.

Pelzer, Auguste. Abreviations latines medievales : supplement au Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane de Adriano Cappelli. Bruxelles: Editions Nauwelaerts, 1982.

Journals and Series

Codicologica. (Litterae textuales). Ed A. Gruys, and J. P. Gumbert. Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1976- .

Revue d'Histoire des Textes

Scriptorium

Manuscripta

Martin Irvine for the Labyrinth.