An Introduction to Mise-en-Page Bibliography to accompany the
Bibliographical Society of American Webinar (28 May 2020). A link will
be posted.
The link for the presentation from 28 May 2020 on mise-en-page (western manuscripts, mostly British, mostly monastic) is here: You Tube Mise-En-Page
The link for the presentation from 28 May 2020 on mise-en-page (western manuscripts, mostly British, mostly monastic) is here: You Tube Mise-En-Page
Western Manuscript
Studies Select Bibliography
General
Albritton,
B., G. Henley, and E. Treharne, eds., Medieval
Manuscripts in the Digital Age (London: Routledge, 2020)
Bishop, T. A. M., English Caroline Minuscule, Oxford
Palaeographical Handbooks (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971)
Boyle, L. E., Medieval Latin Palaeography: A Bibliographical Introduction,
Toronto Medieval Bibliographies 8 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984)
Brown, T. J., A Palaeographer's View: The Selected Writings of Julian Brown, ed.
Janet Bately, Michelle P. Brown, and Jane Roberts, with Preface by Albinia C.
de la Mare (London: Harvey Miller, 1993)
Brown, M. P., A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600
(London: British Library, 1990)
Brown, M. P., and P. Lovett, The Historical Source Book for Scribes
(London: British Library, 1999)
Brown, M. P., The British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts: History and
Techniques, The British Library Guides (London: British Library, 1998)
Clemens, Raymond, and Timothy
Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (London: Cornell University
Press, 2007)
Colker, M. L., ‘Some Recent Works
for Palaeographers’, Medievalia et
Humanistica 8 (1977): 235-242
Da
Rold, O., and E. Treharne, eds., Cambridge
Companion to British Medieval Manuscripts (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2020), espec. Chapter 1: R. Beadle and R. Hanna, ‘Describing and
Cataloguing medieval English manuscripts: a checklist’.
Da
Rold, O., M. Swan, and E. Treharne, New
Medieval Literatures 13 (2012 for 2011)
Da
Rold, O., T. Kato, M. Swan, and E. Treharne, The Production and Use of English
Manuscripts, Stanford University, 2nd rev. ed. (https://em1060.stanford.edu/, 2018)
Denholm-Young, N., Handwriting in England and Wales
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1954)
Dumville, D., English Caroline Script and Monastic History: Studies in Benedictinism,
AD 950-1030, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History 6 (Woodbridge: Boydell and
Brewer, 1993)
Gillespie, A., and D. Wakelin,
eds., The Production of Books in England
c.1350–c.1530 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
Grieve, H. E. P., Examples of English Handwriting, 1150-1750,
Essex Record Office Publications 21 (Chelmsford: Essex Education Committee,
1954)
Hector, L. C., The Handwriting of English Documents, 2nd ed. (London: Edward
Arnold, 1966)
Jenkinson, H., The Later Court Hands in England, 2 Vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1927)
Johnson, C., and H. Jenkinson. English Court Hand A.D. 1066-1500, 2
Vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915)
Knight, S., Historical Scripts: From Classical Times to the Renaissance (New
Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1998)
Lowe, E. A., ed. Codices latini antiquiores: A
Palaeographical Guide to Latin Manuscripts Prior to the Ninth Century, 12
vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1972)
Lowe, E. A., English Uncial (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960)
Parkes, M. B., English Cursive Book Hands, 1250-1500, Oxford Palaeographical
Handbooks (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969)
Petti, A. G., English Literary Hands from Chaucer to Dryden (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1977)
Prescott,
A., and E. Treharne, ‘The Origin and Context of the Salisbury Magna Carta’, http://historyoftexttechnologies.blogspot.com/2015_06_01_archive.html
Preston, Jean F., and Laetitia
Yeandle, English Handwriting, 1400-1650:
An Introductory Manual, Pegasus Paperbooks P6 (Binghamton, NY: Centre for
Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1992)
Rumble, A. R., ‘The Palaeography of
the Domesday Manuscripts’, in Domesday
Book: A Reassessment, ed. P. Sawyer (London and Baltimore: Edward Arnold,
1985) pp. 28-49
Sawyer, D., Reading English Verse in Manuscript, c.1350-c.1500, Oxford English
Monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
Sheppard, J. M., The Buildwas Books: Book Production,
Acquisition and Use at an English Cistercian Monastery, 1165-c.1400, Oxford
Bibliographical Society (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1997)
Stokes, P. A., and S. Brooks, DigiPal: http://www.digipal.eu/
Stokes, P. A., Scribal Attribution Across Multiple Scripts’, Speculum (2017), DOI: 10.1086/693968
Thompson, E. Maunde, An Introduction to Greek and Latin
Palaeography (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912)
Thompson, E. Maunde, G. F. Warner,
F. G. Kenyon, and J. P. Gilson, et al. eds. Facsimiles
of Ancient Manuscripts, The New Palaeographical Society, 2nd series
(London: Oxford University Press, 1913-1930)
Thompson, E. Maunde, G. F. Warner,
F. G. Kenyon, and J. P. Gilson, eds. Facsimiles
of Ancient Manuscripts, The New Palaeographical Society, 1st series
(London: Oxford University Press, 1903-1912)
Thomson, S. Harrison, Latin Bookhands of the Later Middle Ages,
1100-1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969)
Treharne, E., ‘“The
Good, the Bad, the Ugly”: Old English Manuscripts and Their Physical
Description’, in Matthew Hussey and John Niles, eds., The Genesis of Books: Studies in the Scribal Culture of Medieval
England in Honour of A. N. Doane (Brepols, 2012), pp. 261-83
Treharne, E., ‘Manuscript
Production’, in The Encyclopaedia of
Medieval Literature in Britain, ed. Sian Echard and Robert Rouse (Hoboken,
NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), IV: 2071-78
Treharne, E., ‘Raw
Materials: The Role of Palaeography in Medieval Studies’, in Andrew Rabin and
Stefan Jurasinki, eds., Languages of the Law in Early Medieval England:
Essays in Honor of Lisi Oliver, Mediaevalia
Groningana ns 22 (Louvain, Belgium: Peeters, 2019), pp.
155-75
Ullman, B. L. Ancient Writing and its Influence (1932; rpt. Medieval Academy
Reprints, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989)
Wright, C. E., English Vernacular Hands from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Centuries,
Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960)
Codicology/ Mise-en-page / Scribal Practices
Arduini, Franca, and Guglielmo
Cavallo, The Shape of the Book, from Roll to Codex (3rd Century BC-19th
Century AD) (Firenze: Mandragora, 2008)
Bischoff,
F. M., and M. Maniaci, ‘Pergament—Handschriftenformate—Lagenkonstruktion’, Scrittura
e Civiltà 19 (1995): 277–319
Briquet,
C.-M., Les filigranes: dictionnaire historique des marques de papier dès
leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600 (Geneva: A. Jullien, 1907)
British
Library Catalogue of Bookbindings <http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/>
Brown,
M., The British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts: History and Techniques
(London: The British Library, 1998)
Brown,
T. J., ‘The Distribution and Significance of Membrane Prepared in the Insular
Manner’, in Le Paléographie Hébraîque Médiévale (Paris, 1974) pp.
127–35.
Brown,
T. J., with a technical description of the binding by Roger Powell and Peter
Waters, eds., The Stonyhurst Gospel of St John (Oxford: University Press
for the Roxburghe Club, 1969)
Busby,
Keith, Codex and Context: Reading Old
French Verse Narrative in Manuscript, 2 vols. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002)
Canart,
P. et al., ‘Recherches préliminaires sur les matériaux utilisés pour la réglure
en couleur dans les manuscrits grecs et latins’, Scriptorium 45 (1991): 205-225
Clement, R. W., ‘Codicological
Considerations in the Beowulf
Manuscript’, Proceedings of the Illinois
Medieval Association 1 (1984): 13-27
Dane, Joseph A., ‘On the Shadowy
Existence of the Medieval Pricking Wheel’, Scriptorium
50 (1996): 13–21
Da
Rold, O., ‘Codicology’, in The
Encyclopaedia of Medieval British Literature, ed. S. Echard and R. Rouse
(Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), pp. 531-538
Da
Rold, O., ‘Materials’ in The Production
of Books in England c.1350–c.1530, edited by A. Gillespie and D. Wakelin
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 12-33
Da Rold, O., ‘Paper
in Medieval English Books’ in P. O Machain, ed., Paper and the Paper Manuscript: A Context for the Transmission of
Gaelic Literature (Cork: University College Cork, 2012), pp. 1-7
Dukan,
M., ‘De la difficulté à reconnâitre des instruments de réglure: planche
à régler (mastara) et cadre-padron’, Scriptorium
40 (1986): 257-261
Dukan,
M., La réglure des manuscrits hébreux au Moyen âge (Paris: Centre regional de publication de Paris,
1988)
Gameson, R., ‘The material fabric
of early British books’, in The Cambridge
History of the Book in Britain, Vol. 1, ed. R. Gameson (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2011): 11-93. Web. Cambridge Histories Online. 11 May 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521583459
Gilissen, L., ‘La Composition des
Cahiers, le Pliage du Parchemin et l’Imposition’, Prolégomènes à la Codicologie (Ghent: Éditions Scientifiques
Story-Scientia, 1977), pp. 21–44
Gilissen, L., ‘Les réglures
des manuscrits’, Scrittura e civilta 5
(1981): 231-252
Gruys, A., and J. P. Gumbert, eds.,
Codicologica: Towards a Science of
Handwritten Books, 5 vols. Litterae textuales (Leiden: E. J. Brill,
1976-1980)
Gumbert, J. P., ‘Ruling by Rake and
Board: Notes on Some Late Medieval Ruling Techniques’ in P. Ganz, ed., The Role of the Book in Medieval Culture
(Turnhout: Brepols, 1986), pp. 41–54
Hanna, R., ‘Booklets in Medieval
Manuscripts: Further Considerations’, Studies
in Bibliography 39 (1986): 100-111
Hobson,
G. D., ‘Some Early Bindings and Binder's Tools’, The Library 19
(1938/9): 202–49
Hobson,
G. D., English Binding before 1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1929)
Jones,
L. W., ‘Where are the Prickings?’, Transactions
and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 75 (1944): 71-86
Jones,
L. W. ‘Pricking Manuscripts: The Instruments and their Significance’, Speculum
21 (1946): 389–403
Jones,
L. W., ‘Prickings as Clues to Date and Origin: the Eighth Century’, Mediaevalia et Humanistica 14 (1962):
15-22
Ker, N. R., ‘From “Above Top Line”
to “Below Top Line”: A Change in Scribal Practice’, in N. Ker, Books, Collectors and Libraries:
Studies in Medieval Heritage (London: Hambledon Press, 1985)
Kwakkel, E., ‘The Cultural Dynamics
of Medieval Book Production’, in Manuscripten en miniaturen: Studies
aangeboden aan Anne S. Korteweg bij haar afscheid van de Koninklijke
Bibliotheek (Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2007) pp. 243–52
Maniaci,
M., and P. F. Munafò, Ancient and Medieval Book Materials and Techniques
(Vatican: Biblioteca Vaticana Apostolica, 1993)
Maniaci,
M., ‘Un repertorio da leggere fra le righe’, Gazette du livre médiéval 28 (1996): 13-22
Marichal, Robert, ‘Du “volume” au
“codex”’, in Mise en page et mise en
texte du livre manuscrit, ed., H-J. Martin and Jean Vezin (Paris: Editions
du Cercle de la Librairie—Promodis, 1990), pp. 45-54.
Mazal,
O., ‘Medieval Bookbinding’ in The Book through Five Thousand Years, ed.
H. D. L. Vervliet (London: Phaidon, 1972), pp. 314–38
Moorman, Charles, The Statistical Determination of Affiliation
in the Landmark Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales. (Lewiston, NY: Edwin
Mellen Press, 1993)
Muzerelle,
D., La machine à rouler…les codicologues!’, Gazette
du livre médiéval 31 (1997): 22-30
Needham,
P., Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings, 400–1600 (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1979)
Nixon,
H. M. ‘The Binding of Winton Domesday’, in Winchester in the Early Middle
Ages, ed. M. Biddle (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), pp. 526–40
Ornato,
E., ed., La Face cachée du livre médiéval: L'Histoire du livre (Rome:
Viella, 1997)
Pantin,
Isabelle, ‘Mise en page, mise en teste et construction du sens dans le livre
moderne’, Melanges de l’Ecole francaise
de Rome (2008): 343-61: https://www.persee.fr/doc/mefr_1123-9891_2008_num_120_2_10550
Parkes,
M. B., ‘The Influence of the Concepts of Ordinatio and Compilatio on the
Development of the Book’, in Scribes,
Scripts and Readers: Studies in the Communication, Presentation and
Dissemination of Medieval Texts, ed. M. B. Parkes (London: Hambledon,
1991), pp. 35-70.
Parkes,
M. B., ‘Layout and Presentation of the Text’, in Cambridge History of the Book in Britain 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2008), pp. 55-74
Pearson, D., Books as History:
The Importance of Books beyond their Texts (London: British Library, 2011)
Peikola, Matti, ‘Guidelines for
Consumption: Scribal Ruling Patterns and Designing the Mise-en page in Later
Medieval England’, in Manuscripts
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University Press, 2013), pp. 14–31
Pollard,
G., ‘Describing Medieval Bookbindings’, in Medieval Learning and Literature:
Essays Presented to R.W. Hunt, ed. J. J. G. Alexander, and M. T. Gibson
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), pp. 50–65
Pollard, G., ‘Notes on the Size of
the Sheet’, The Library, 4th Ser., 22
(1941): 105–37
Pollard,
G., ‘Some Anglo-Saxon Bookbindings’, The Book Collector 24 (1975):
130–54
Pollard,
G., ‘The Construction of English Twelfth-Century Bindings’. The Library 5th
series, 17 (1962): 1–22
Rand, E.
K., ‘How Many Leaves as a Time?’, Palaeographia
Latina 5 (1927): 52-78
Roberts, Colin H., and T. C. Skeat,
The Birth of the Codex (London:
Oxford University Press, for the British Academy, 1987)
Robinson,
P. R. ‘The “Booklet”: A Self-Contained Unit in Composite Manuscripts’, in Codicologica, ed. A. Gruys, and J.
Peter Gumbert (Leiden: Brill, 1980), pp. 46–69
Rosenfeld,
R., ‘Pricking Wheels’, Gazette du livre médiéval
37 (2000): 18-25
Rouse, R.H., and M. A. Rouse,
‘Ordinatio and Compilatio Revisited’, in M. D. Jordan and K. Emery, eds, Ad Litteram: Authoritative Texts and their
Medieval Readers (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992)
Stinson, T., ‘Codicological
Descriptions in the Digital Age’, in Kodikologie und Paläographie im
Digitalen Zeitalter - Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age, ed.
M. Rehbein, P. Sahle, and T. Schaßan (Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2009) pp.
35–51
Stinson,
T., ‘Counting Sheep: Potential Applications of DNA Analysis to the Study of Medieval Parchment Production’, in Kodikologie
und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter 2, Codicology and Palaeography in the
Digital Age 2, ed. Franz Fischer, Christiane Fritz, and Georg Vogeler
(Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2011)
Stokes,
P. A., ‘Codicology’, in The Literary Encyclopedia, ed. R. Clark, and H.
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Turner, E. G. The Typology of
the Early Codex (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977)
van
Regemorter, B., Binding Structures in the Middle Ages: A Selection of
Studies (London: Maggs Brothers, 1992)
Wakelin,
D., Scribal Correction and Literary
Craft: English Manuscripts, 1375-1510 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2014)
A few journals
Fragmentology, Digital Medievalist, Digital
Philology, Gazette du livre medieval, Manuscript
Studies, Scriptorium, Speculum, The Library, Traditio, Viator
Very select online resources
British Library Digitized Manuscripts: https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/
Cambridge, Trinity College, Wren Library: https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/wren-digital-library/
Design History: http://www.designhistory.org/BookHistory_pages/Manuscripts.html
Digital Scriptorium: https://digital-scriptorium.org/advanced-search/
Digital Vatican Library: https://digi.vatlib.it/
Earlier Latin Manuscripts, ELMSS: https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/
E-Codices, Virtual Library of Switzerland’s
Manuscripts: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en
Erik Kwakkel’s Blog, ‘Medieval Books’, especially: https://medievalbooks.nl/tag/layout/
Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious <http://
libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/index.html>
‘Images de réglures
de manuscrits’: https://arhpee.typepad.com/enluminure/2014/07/la-r%C3%A9glure.html
John Rylands University Library of Manchester Digital Collections: https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/Man4MedievalVC~4~4
Making Medieval Manuscripts: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/feature/current-exhibition-the-making-of-medieval-manuscripts
Medieval Academy of America Digital Resources: http://mdr-maa.org/
Parker on the Web (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College manuscripts): https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/
Pricking and Ruling Patterns: http://individual.utoronto.ca/notaquadrata/rulings.html
Pricking and Ruling video: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/ancientbooks/2016/05/24/pricking-and-ruling/
Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts: https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/
Stanford Medieval Fragments collection: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4083219
Walters Art Museum Ex Libris: https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/
‘What is a Codex?’, https://www.lib.umich.edu/reading/Paul/codex.html
Please send corrections or additions to Elaine Treharne, treharne@stanford.edu Thanks!
