This Handlist serves as a gathering place for resources in print and digital forms for research, study, and teaching of manuscripts, documents, fragments, and other materials. We welcome suggestions and additions.<\/p>\n
This Handlist complements and partly overlaps with our handlist complied as part of our work for the series of roundtables and other events dedicated to exploring catalogues, metadata, and databases:<\/p>\n
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- Handlist of Links for Catalogues, Metadata, and Databases<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Collection of Jennah Farrell, Single Leaf from the Book of Numbers in a Medieval Latin Vulgate Bible manuscript: Recto, top. Photography by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n
The first items for the Handlist of Resources for Manuscript Studies and Fragmentology<\/strong> arrive as we prepare the new series of RGME Workshops<\/strong> on “Looking at Manuscripts, Etc.” The series forms a return to and expansion of our early series of RGME Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts<\/a> (1989\u20131995), as our interests and research have extended across the years into more subjects, periods, languages, genres, and media, all centered insofar as possible upon close examination of original sources and\/or surrogates guided by informed study of their evidence and their contexts.<\/p>\n
RGME Workshops on Original Sources
\nfor Research and Teaching<\/h1>\nThese new Workshops will begin in November 2024, as we collectively examine a detached medieval leaf on vellum with part of the Book of Numbers in a medium-format Latin Bible in the Vulgate Version. It is currently on loan (since June 2024) to the RGME Library & Archives from the Collection of Jennah Farrell, for the purposes of conservation, photography, research, teaching, and publication.<\/p>\n
Preparing for the Workshops, we articulate principles and practices in their first blogpost:<\/p>\n
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- The Bridge of Signs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The Companion Handlist<\/h1>\n
Titles are listed in alphabetical order by authors’ or editors’ surnames.<\/p>\n
This Handlist<\/strong><\/em> functions as a living document, and we will be adding to it as we go along. Please join the quest!<\/p>\n
Terminology, Definitions, and Handbooks
\nfor Describing Manuscripts and Printed Books<\/h2>\n- \n
- Peter Beal, A Dictionary of Manuscript Terminology, 1450\u20132000<\/strong><\/em> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009; reprinted 2013)<\/li>\n
- Sidney E. Berger, The Dictionary of the Book: A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others<\/strong><\/em> (London, etc.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2nd edition, 2023)<\/li>\n
- Michelle P. Brown. Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms<\/strong><\/em> (London: The British Library Board in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009)<\/li>\n
- \u2014\u2014 Revised Edition<\/strong><\/em> of that title, by Elizabeth C. Teviotdale and Nancy K. Turner (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018)<\/li>\n
- Geoffrey Ashall Glaister, Glaister’s Glossary of the Book: Terms used in Papermaking, Printing, Bookbinding and Publishing, with Notes on Illuminated Manuscripts and Private Presses <\/strong><\/em>(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, second edition, completely revised, 1979)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Manuscript Studies<\/h2>\n
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- Alessandro Bausi et al., editors, Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: An Introduction (COMSt [Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies], 2015).<\/li>\n
- Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies<\/strong> <\/em>(Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2007)<\/li>\n
- Da Rold, Orietta and Elaine Treharne (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts<\/i><\/strong> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)<\/li>\n
- Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World<\/strong><\/em> (New York: Penguin Press, 2017)<\/li>\n
- Christopher de Hamel, The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts<\/strong><\/em> (New York: Penguin Press, 2023)<\/li>\n
- Kathryn James, English Palaeography and Manuscript Culture, 1500\u20131800<\/strong> <\/em>(New Haven and London: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, 2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Palaeography<\/h2>\n
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- Coulson, Frank T. and Robert G. Babcock (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography <\/i><\/strong>(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)<\/li>\n
- Derolez, Albert, The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century <\/i><\/strong>(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Fragmentology<\/h2>\n
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- William Duba and Christoph Fl\u00fceler, \u201cFragments and Fragmentology\u201d. Fragmentology<\/em><\/strong>, vol. 1 (2018): 1-5. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.24446\/a04a<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Blogs<\/h2>\n
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- Mildred Budny et al., Manuscript Studies<\/a>, with a Contents List<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lisa Fagin Davis, \u201cManuscript Road Trip\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n
- Peter Kidd, Medieval Manuscripts Provenance\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Provenance<\/h2>\n
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- Raymond I. Page, Matthew Parker and His Books: Sandars Lectures in Bibliography Delivered on 14, 16, and 18 May 1990 at the University of Cambridge<\/strong> <\/em>(Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications in Association with the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1993)<\/li>\n
- University of Kansas LibGuides, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts: Provenance<\/strong><\/em> https:\/\/guides.lib.ku.edu\/medieval-and-early-modern-manuscripts\/resources-provenance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Documents<\/h2>\n
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- University of Nottingham, Manuscripts and Special Collections, Research Guidance: Medieval Documents. Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
References<\/h2>\n
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- Adriano Capelli, Lexicon Abbreviaturum: Dizionario di Abbreviature latine ed italiane<\/em> (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 6th edition, 1990). Online via Capelli Online<\/a><\/li>\n
- Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent, MEMSLib Palaeography<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Of Interest<\/h2>\n
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- “Bonae litterae<\/em>: occasional writing from David Rundle, Renaissance Scholar”<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Suggestions and Additions?<\/h2>\n
Please place your suggestions or questions below in the Comments, Contact Us<\/a>, or visit<\/p>\n
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Private Collection, Vellum leaf with illustration of “Gregory Mass”, verso. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n
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Private Collection, Vellum leaf with illustration of “Gregory Mass”. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n
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- our Twitter Feed<\/a> (@rgme_mss)<\/li>\n
- our FaceBook Page<\/a><\/li>\n
- Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent, MEMSLib Palaeography<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Adriano Capelli, Lexicon Abbreviaturum: Dizionario di Abbreviature latine ed italiane<\/em> (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 6th edition, 1990). Online via Capelli Online<\/a><\/li>\n
- University of Kansas LibGuides, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts: Provenance<\/strong><\/em> https:\/\/guides.lib.ku.edu\/medieval-and-early-modern-manuscripts\/resources-provenance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Lisa Fagin Davis, \u201cManuscript Road Trip\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n
- Mildred Budny et al., Manuscript Studies<\/a>, with a Contents List<\/a><\/li>\n
- Derolez, Albert, The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century <\/i><\/strong>(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Da Rold, Orietta and Elaine Treharne (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts<\/i><\/strong> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)<\/li>\n
- Sidney E. Berger, The Dictionary of the Book: A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others<\/strong><\/em> (London, etc.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2nd edition, 2023)<\/li>\n
- Peter Beal, A Dictionary of Manuscript Terminology, 1450\u20132000<\/strong><\/em> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009; reprinted 2013)<\/li>\n
- The Bridge of Signs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n