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Medieval Book Facsimile and Manuscript Studies Guide: English Introductory Bibliography

Introductory Bibliography for English Manuscripts

Backhouse, Janet. The Lindisfarne Gospels (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981)

           ------The Lindisfarne Gospels: A Masterpiece of Book Painting (London: British Library, 1985)

Bonner, Gerald. St Cuthbert, His Cult, and His Community to AD 1200 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1989)

Brown, Michelle. Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels, Rev. ed. (London: British Library, 2004)

-------The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Early Medieval World (London: British Library, 2011)

-------The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality, & the Scribe (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003)

Camille, Michael. Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)

Clanchy, M.T. From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993)

Cuesta, Julia Fernandez. The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels: Language, Author, and Context (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016) 

Henderson, George. Vision and Image in Early Christian England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)

Morgan, Nigel. The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting, 1200-1500 (New York: Braziller, 1981)

Roberts, Jane. “Aldred signs Off From Glossing the Lindisfarne Gospels,” Writing and Texts in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Alexander R. Rumble (Rochester: D.S. Brewer, 2006)

Writing and Texts in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Alexander R. Rumble (Rochester: D.S. Brewer, 2006)