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Medieval Book Facsimile and Manuscript Studies Guide: German Introductory Bibliography

Introductory Bibliography For German Manuscripts

Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation. ed. Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)

​Cohan, Adam S. The Uta Codes: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany (University Park: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)

Edwards, Cyril. “German Vernacular Literature: A Survey,” Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation. ed. R. McKitterick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp. 141-170

Goldschmidt, Adolph. German Illumination (New York, Hacker Art Books, 1928, reprint 1970)

Harmon, James A. Codicology of the Court School of Charlemagne: Gospel Book Production. Illumination, and Emphasized Script (New York: P. Lang, 1984)

Law, Vivien. “The Study of Grammar,” Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation. ed. R. McKitterick (Cambridge: CUP, 1993) pp. 88-110

McKitterick, Rosamond. Carolingians and the Written Word (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)

-------"Glossaries and other Innovations in Carolingian Book Production," Turning Over a New Leaf: Change and Development in the Medieval Manuscript. eds. Eric Kwakkel, Rosamond McKitterick, Rodney Thompson (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2012) 21-76

-------“Script and Book Production,” Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation. ed. R. McKitterick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp. 221-247

Mütherich, Florentine and Joachim Gaehde. Carolingian Painting (New York: Braziller, 1976)

Thompson, Rodney. "The Place of Germany in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Books, Scriptoria, and Libraries," Turning Over a New Leaf: Change and Development in the Medieval Manuscript. eds. Eric Kwakkel, Rosamond McKitterick, Rodney Thompson (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2012) 127-140