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Medieval Book Facsimile and Manuscript Studies Guide: Further Reading

General Introductory Bibliography

Surveys

Backhouse, Janet. The Illuminated Manuscript (London: Phaidon, 1979)

Calkins, Robert. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983)

De Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts 2nd ed (London: Phaidon, 1994)

Gutmann, Joseph. Hebrew Manuscript Painting (New York: Braziller, 1978)

Harthan, John. Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1983)

Pächt, Otto. Book Illumination in the Middle Ages: An Introduction. Studies in Early Medieval and Renaissance Art History, Vol. 10 (New York: Harvey Miller, 1994)

Robb, David. The Art of the Illuminated Manuscript (Cranbury: A.S. Barnes, 1983)

Roberts, Jane. et al. The History of the Book in the West Vol. 1-5 (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2010)

Weitzmann, Kurt. Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination (New York: Braziller, 1977)

 

Festschriften Focused on Illuminated Manuscripts (Essay Compilations)

Quand la peinture était dans les livres: Mélanges en l’honneur de François Avril, ed. Mara Hoffmann, Eberhard König, Caroline Zöhl (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010)

Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow: Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance, ed. Jeffrey Hamburger and Anne Korteweg (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006)

Tributes to Jonathan J. G. Alexander: The Making and Meaning of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Art and Architecture, ed. Susan L'Engle and Gerald Guest (Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2006)

Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts, ed. Kathryn Smith, Carol Krinsky, Lucy Sandler (Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2008)

 

Glossaries and General Guides

Brown, Michelle. A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990)

----------Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library, 1994)

Clemens, Richard and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007)

Muzerelle, Denis. Vocabulaire codicologique: répertoire méthodique des termes français relatifs aux manuscrits (Paris: Comité international de paléographie, 1985)

Shailor, Barbara. The Medieval Book. Illustrated from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994)

 

Paleography, Writing, and Reading

Derolez, Albert. The Paleography of Gothic Manuscript Books From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

John, James J. “Latin Paleography,” Medieval Studies: An Introduction, 2nd ed., ed. James M. Powell (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992) pp. 3-81

Kwakkel, Eric. "Biting, Kissing and the Treatment of Feet: The Transitional Script of the Long Twelfth Century," Turning Over a New Leaf: Change and Development in the Medieval Manuscript. eds. Eric Kwakkel, Rosamond McKitterick, Rodney Thompson (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2012) 79-126

Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pages From the Past: Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript Books (Farnham: Ashgate Pblishing, 2012)

Muzerelle, Denis. “Dating Manuscripts: What is at Stake in the Steps Usually 9but Infrequently) Taken,” Journal of the Early English Books Society (2008) pp. 167-173

Overgaauw, E.A. “Where are the Colophons?: On the Frequency of Dating in Late-Medieval Manuscripts,” Sources for the History of Medieval Books and Libraries. eds. Rita Schlusemann, Jos. M.M. Hermans, Margriet Hoogvliet (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1999) pp. 81-93

Paul Henry Saenger, Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997) 

Richard H. Rouse, Mary A. Rouse. Bound Fast With Letters: Medieval Writers, Readers, and Texts (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013) 

Stock, Brian. “Textual Communities,” The Implications of Literacy: Written Languages and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983) pp. 88-240

 

Memory and the Book

Carruthers, Mary. “Memory and the Book,” The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) 221-257

-------“Introduction,” The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) 1-15

Yates, Frances. “Medieval Memory and the Formation of Imagery,” The Art of Memory. reprint (London: Pimlico, 2007; reprint) 93-113

-------“The Art of Memory in the Middle Ages,” The Art of Memory. (London: Pimlico, 2007; reprint) 63-92

 

Theoretical Discussion of the Status of the Text in the Book 

Camille, Michael. Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992)

Dagenais, John. “That Bothersome Residue: Toward a Theory of the Physical Text,” Vox Intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages, eds. A.N. Doane and Carol Braun Pasternak (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991) 246-259

Holsinger, Bruce. “Of Pigs and Parchment: Medieval Studies and the Coming of the Animal,” PMLA 124 No. 2 (2009) pp. 616-623

Kay, Sarah. “Legible Skins: Animals and the ethics of medieval reading,” postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 2 (2011) pp. 13-32

Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon: Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission for Whitney F. Bolton, ed. Kathleen Davis and Robert Boenig (Lewisberg: Bucknell University Press, 2000)

Martha Dana Rust, Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) 

New Directions in Oral Theory: Essays on Ancient and Medieval Literatures, ed. Mark Amodio (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005)

The Future of the Page: Studies in Book and Print Culture, ed. Peter Stoicheff and Andrew Taylor (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004)

 

Manuscript Production 

Alexander, Jonathan J.G. Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992)

Authentic Witnesses: Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts, ed. Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991)

Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A.S.G. Edwards, ed. Carol M. Meale, Derek Pearsall (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014)

Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users: A Special Issue of Viator in Honor Richard and Mary Rouse (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011)

De Hamel, Christopher. Scribes and Illuminators (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992)

Diringer, David. The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production (London: Faber & Faber, 1958)

Making the Medieval Book: Assessing the EvidenceProceedings of the Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, July 1988, ed. Linda L. Brownrigg (Los Altos: Anderson Lovelace Publishing, 1990)

Making the Medieval Book: Techniques of ProductionProceedings of the Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, July 1992, ed. Linda L. Brownrigg (Los Altos: Anderson Lovelace Publishing, 1995)

Parkes, Malcolm Beckwith. Of the Making of Books: Medieval Manuscripts, Their Scribes, and Readers: Essays Presented to M.B. Parkes (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997)

Patrons, Authors and Workshops: Books and Book Production in Paris around 1400, ed. Godfried Croenen and Peter Ainsworth (Louvain: Peeters, 2006)

Rouse, Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse, Illiterati et uxorati: Manuscripts and Their Makers. Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris, 1200-1500, 2 Vols. (Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2000)

Weitzmann, Kurt. Illustrations in Roll and Codex: A Study of the Origen and Method of Text Illustration (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947)

 

Manuscript Illumination and Methods of Visual Depiction

Buzwell, Greg. Saints in Medieval Manuscripts (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005)

Fisher, Celia. The Medieval Flower Book (London: British Library, 2007)

Gathercole, Patricia May. The Depiction of Architecture and Furniture in Medieval French Manuscript Illumination (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006)

-------The Depiction of Clothing in French Medieval Manuscripts (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008)

Joyce Coleman, et al. The Social Life of Illumination: Manuscripts, Images, and Communities in the Late Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013) 

Lipton, Sara. Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014)

Morrison, Elizabeth. Beasts: Factual and Fantastic (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007)

Olson, Mary. Fair and Varied Forms: Visual Textuality in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (New York: Routledge, 2003)

Porter, Pamela. Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003)

-------Medieval Warfare in Manuscripts (Toronto, Toronto University Press, 2000)

Scott, Margaret. Fashion in the Middle Ages (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011)

-------Medieval Dress and Fashion (London: British Library, 2007)

Under the Influence: The Concept of Influence and the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts, eds. A. Bovey and J. Lowden. Publications for the Research Centre of Illuminated Manuscripts (Turnhout: Bepols, 2007)