Schedule of Classes

Texts

James J. John, "Latin Paleography," Medieval Studies : An Introduction. 2nd ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1992: 3-81.  Bird D116 .M4 1992

Bernhard Bischoff, Latin Paleography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Trans. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín and David Ganz. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.  Bird Z114 .B5713 1989

Web sites with images and bibliography

Labyrinth (Images, texts, and bibliography)

Bibliography

The two most important dictionaries for learning to read manuscripts are:

Cappelli, Adriano. Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane: Lexicon abbreviaturarum. Many editions.   Manuali Hoepli.  Milano: Hoepli, 1961 (6th Edition).

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

Collections of dated or datable manuscripts

Bruckner, Albert, Burckhardt, Max, Ladner, Pascal, Steinmann, Martin,  Scarpatetti, Beat Matthias von. Katalog der datierten Handschriften in der Schweiz in lateinischer Schrift vom Anfang des Mittelalters bis 1550. 3 volumes in 6.  Dietikon-Zürich : U. Graf, 1977-1991

Bruckner, Albert, and Marichal, Robert, ed. Chartae Latinae antiquiores:   Facsimile edition of the Latin charters prior to the ninth century. Olten : U. Graf, 1954-  Bird-Special Collections  Z114.C47 f

Catalogo dei manoscritti in scrittura latina datati o databili per indicazione di anno, di luogo o di copista. Torino, Bottega d'Erasmo, 1971  Bird-Special Collections Z6605.L3 C38 f

Lieftinck, Gerard Isaac, Manuscrits datés conservés dans les Pays-bas.Catalogue paléographique des manuscrits en écriture latine portant des indications de date. Amsterdam, North Holland Pub. Co., 1964

Lowe, E. A. ed. Codices Latini Antiquiores: A Palaeographical Guide to Latin Manuscripts Prior to the Ninth Century. 12 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1934-1966.  Location: Bird-Special Collections Z114 .C677 1982 f

Samaran, Charles, Catalogue des manuscrits en écriture latine portant des indications de date, de lieu ou de copiste. Ed. Charles Samaran et Robert Marichal.  Paris : Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1959- Bird-Special Collections, Call Number: Z114 .S25 Library has: v.2-v.7

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

Battelli, Giulio. Lezioni di paleografia.   Città del Vaticano, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1999 (fourth edition).  ISBN 88-209-2689-X   Lit. 25000

Bischoff, Bernhard. Latin Paleography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Trans.  Dáibhí Ó Cróinín and David Ganz. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990. Bird Z114 .B5713 1989

Bischoff, Bernhard, Paläographie des römischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters.  Grundlagen der Germanistik, 24.  Berlin : E. Schmidt, 1979. Bird Z114 .B57

Bischoff, Bernhard, Paléographie de l'antiquité Romaine et du Moyen Âge occidental. Paris : Picard, 1985. Z114 .B5714 1985

-----. 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.

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

Boyle, Leonard E.  Paleografia Latine Medievale: Introduzione bibliografica con un supplemento di agiornamento 1982-1998.   Edited by Leonard E. Boyle and Fabio Troncarelli.  Translated into Italian by Maria Elena Bertoldi. Introduction by Fabio Troncarelli.  Roma, Edizioni Quasar, 1999.    ISBN 88-7140-144-1 Lit.95000

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

Cencetti, Giorgio. Lineamenti di storia della scrittura latina: Dalle lezioni di paleografia (Bologna, aa. 1953-1954). Ristampa a cura di Gemma Guerrini Ferri con indici e aggiornamento bibliografico.   Bologna: Patron Editore, 1997. Lit.62000

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.

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.

-----. 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.

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


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