5. Codicology and Book History

• Alexander, J. J. G., Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work (New Haven, CT, 1992). Restricted Access: 98VSR.B. Ask Enquiries.
• Atkin, T., and L. Estill (eds), Early British Drama in Manuscript, British Manuscripts 1 (Turnhout, 2019).
• Avrin, L., Scribes, Script and Books (London, 1991).
• Barret, S., D. Stutzmann, G. Vogeler (eds), Ruling the Script in the Middle Ages: Formal Aspects of Written Communication (Books, Charters, and Inscriptions), Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 35 (Turnhout, 2016).
• Beach, A. I. (ed.), Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Religious Reform and Intellectual Life in Twelfth-Century Germany, Medieval Church Studies 13 (Turnhout, 2006). MHBF.K. Proceedings of the Admont Conference.
• Beach, A. I., Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria, Studies in Palaeography and Codicology (Cambridge, 2004).
• Bennett, H. S., English Books and Readers, 1475 to 1557: Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade from Caxon to the Incorporation of the Stationers’ Company (2nd edn, Cambridge, 1969). ZC3ea.E.
• Bennett, H. S., English Books and Readers, 1558–1603: Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade in the Reign of Elizabeth I (Cambridge, 1965). ZC3ea.F.
• Bennett, H. S., English Books and Readers, 1603 to 1640: Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade in the Reigns of James I and Charles I (Cambridge, 1970). ZC3ea.H.
• Bettley, J. (ed.), The Art of the Book: From Medieval Manuscript to Graphic Novel (London, 2001).
• Bousmanne, B. and E. Savini (eds), The Library of the Dukes of Burgundy, Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History (London, 2020).
• Bracken, J. K., and J. Silver (eds), The British Literary Book Trade, 1475–1700, Dictionary of Literary Biography 170 (Detroit, 1996). ZC3ea1.
• Brown, M. P., ‘The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book before 1100’, in S. Eliot and J. Rose (eds), A Companion to the History of the Book, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 48 (Oxford, 2007), pp. 179–93.
• Brown, M. P., Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Age (London, 2007).
• Brown, M. P., and S. McKendrick (ed.), Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters. Essays in honour of Janet Backhouse (London, 1998). ZC3.B.
• Brownrigg, L. L. (ed.), Making the Medieval Book: Techniques of Production, Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1992 (London, 1995). 9ZC3.B: Ask Enquiries.
• Brownrigg, L. L., and M. Smith (ed.), Interpreting and Collecting the Fragments of Medieval Books (London, 2000).
• Burnett, C., The Introduction of Arabic Learning into England, The Panizzi Lectures 1996 (London, 1998).
• Chartier, R. (ed.), The Culture of Print: Power and the Uses of Print in Early Modern Europe, trs. L. G. Cochrane (Cambridge, 1989). VT3.D.
• Chaytor, H. J., From Script to Print: An Introduction to Medieval Vernacular Literature (Cambridge, 1945). YU.B. On copying and corruption, see pp. 148-52.
• Claassens, G., and W. Verbeke (eds), Medieval Manuscripts in Transition: Tradition and Creative Recycling, Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, ser. 1, Studia, vol. 36 (Leuven, 2006).
• Clanchy, M. T., ‘Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100–1500’, in S. Eliot and J. Rose (eds), A Companion to the History of the Book, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 48 (Oxford, 2007), pp. 194–206.
• Cribiore, R. (ed.), Writing, Teachers and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt, American Studies in Papyrology 36 (Ann Arbor, MI, 1996). Examines how the skill of writing was taught, and how it was learned. Important Background.
• Crick, J., and A. Walsham (eds), The Uses of Script and Print, 1300–1700 (Cambridge, 2003).
• Dane, Joseph, What Is a Book? The Study of Early Printed Books (Notre Dame, IN, 2012).
• de Hamel, C., A History of Illuminated Manuscripts (Oxford, 1986). Oversize: 98VSR Restricted Access.
• de Hamel, C., Medieval Craftsmen: Scribes and Illuminators (London, 1992). VS.
• de Hamel, C., The Rothschilds and their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts (London, 2005). 98VSR Restricted Access.
• Diringer, D., The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production, rev. with the assistance of R. Regensburger (2nd edn, London, 1967). VSR.
• Dumville, D. N., English Caroline Script and Monastic History: Studies in Benedictinism, A. D. 950–1030, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History 6 (Woodbridge, 1993). But see also the review by T. A. Heslop in Journal of Theological Studies, 45 (1994), 378-81.
• Echard, S., Printing the Middle Ages, Material Texts (Philadelphia, PA, 2008). ZC3ea.B.
• Eliot, S., and J. Rose (eds), A Companion to the History of the Book (Oxford, 2007).
• Finkelstein, D., and A. M. Cleery (eds), The Book History Reader (London, 2002).
• Foot, M., The History of Bookbinding as a Mirror of Society, The Panizzi Lectures 1997 (London, 1998). ZCE.
• Ganz, D. M., ‘Book Production in the Carolingian Empire and the Spread of Caroline Minuscule’, in R. McKitterick (ed.), The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 2, c.700–c.900, ed (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 786–808. MB.
• Ganz, D. M., Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance, Beihefte der Francia 20 (Sigmaringen, 1990).
• Gotoff, H. C., The Transmission of the Text of Lucan in the Ninth Century, Loeb Classical Monographs (Cambridge, MA, 1971). XJ.L932. An instructive study in the transmission of a classical text.
• Grafton, A., and M. Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea (Cambridge, MA, 2007).
• Greetham, D., ‘Textual Scholarship’, in S. Eliot and J. Rose (eds), A Companion to the History of the Book, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 48 (Oxford, 2007), pp. 21–32.
• Griffiths, J., and D. Pearsall (eds), Book Production and Publishing in Britain, 1375–1475 (Cambridge, 1989). ZC3ea.B.
• Hanna, R., Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts, their Producers and their Readers, Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies (Liverpool, 2014).
• Harthan, J., Books of Hours and their Owners (London, 1977).
• Hellinga, L., and J. B. Trapp (eds), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 2, 1400–1557 (Cambridge, 1999). ZC3ea.C.
• Howard-Hill, T. H., The British Book Trade, 1475–1890: A Bibliography, 2 vols. (London, 2009).
• Howsam, L., Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture (Toronto, 2006).
• Humphreys, K. W., ‘The Loss of Books in Sixteenth-Century England’, Libri, 36 (1986), 249–58. Journals ZN6. Ask Enquiries.
• Keefer, S. L., and R. H. Bremmer (eds), Signs on the Edge: Space, Text and Margin in Medieval Manuscripts, Mediaevalia Groningana, New Series 10 (Leuven, 2007).
• Kwakkel, E. (ed.), Vernacular Manuscript Culture, 1000–1500, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture (Leiden, 2018).
• Kwakkel, E., R. McKitterick and R. Thomson, Turning Over a New Leaf: Change and Development in the Medieval Book (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2012). Available as an open access book. Comprises three essays: R. McKitterick, ‘Glossaries and Other Innovations in Carolingian Book Production’ (pp. 21–76); E. Kwakkel, ‘Biting, Kissing and the Treatment of Feet: The Transitional Script of the Long Twelfth Century’ (pp. 79–125); R. Thomson, ‘The Place of Germany in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Monks, Scriptoria and Libraries’ (pp. 127–63).
• Manion, M. M., and B. J. Muir (eds), The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship (Exeter, 1998). VSR.B.
• Marks, P. M. J., The British Library Guide to Bookbinding: History and Techniques (London, 1998). ZCE3.
• Marks, R., and N. Morgan, The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting, 1200–1500 (London, 1981). 98VSRea.B. Restricted Access.
• McKitterick, R. (ed.), The Uses of Literacy in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 1990).
• Morgan, N., and R. Thomson (eds), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 2, 1100–1400 (Cambridge, 2008). ZC3ea.C. Note especially: P. Robinson, ‘The Format of Books—Books, Booklets and Rolls’ (pp. 41–54); M. B. Parkes, ‘Layout and Presentation of the Text’ (pp. 55–74); R. M. Thomson, N. Morgan, M. Gullick and N. Hadgraft, ‘Technology of Production of the Manuscript Book’ (pp. 75–109); M. B. Parkes, ‘Handwriting in English Books’ (pp. 110–35); R. M. Thomson, ‘Monastic and Cathedral Book Production’ (pp. 136–67).
• Mynors, R. A. B., Durham Cathedral Manuscripts to the End of the Twelfth Century (Oxford, 1939).
• Needham, P., Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings, 400–1600 (New York, 1979). Rare Books 99ZCE.D.
• Nixon, H. M., Five Centuries of English Bookbinding (London, 1978). ZCEea.
• Nixon, H. M., and M. M. Foot, The History of Decorated Bookbinding in England, ed. M. M. Foot (Oxford, 1992). 9ZCEea. Ask Enquiries.
• Panayotova, S. (ed.), The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts: A Handbook, Manuscripts in the Making 3 (London, 2021). A guide intended to help art historians, conservators and manuscript scholars to understand recent cross-disciplinary research on illuminated manuscripts. Has six essays that introduce and explain: the range of inks, pigments and paint binders used by illuminators; parchment-making; pigment recipes; and model books.Various analytical instruments and techniques that are used to investigate manuscripts are also discussed. Then follow 58 case studies of manuscripts from the year 700 up to c.1600.
• Pearson, D., Books as History: The Importance of Books Beyond their Texts (London, 2008). ZC3. Mostly concerned with books since the invention of printing in the fifteenth century, but still an excellent introduction to the possibilities and potential of book history: see esp. pp. 21–25.
• Pearson, D., English Bookbinding Styles, 1450–1800: A Handbook (London, 2005). ZCEea. Ask Enquiries.
• Polastron, L. X., Books on Fire (London, 2007).
• Pratt, K., B. Besamusca, M. Meyer, and A. Putter with the assistance of H. Morcos (eds), The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from a European Perspective (Göttingen, 2017). Available from the publishers as an Open Access E-Book.
• Pulsiano, P., ‘Jaunts, Jottings and Jetsam in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts’, Florilegium, 19 (2002), 189–215.
• Reed, R., Ancient Skins, Parchments and Leathers (London, 1972). ZCGL.
• Reynolds, L. D., and N. G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (2nd edn, Oxford, 1974). XDA.
• Roberts, C. H., and T. C. Skeat, The Birth of the Codex (2nd edn, London, 1987).
• Roberts, C. H., Manuscript, Society, and Belief in Early Christian Egypt, Schweich Lectures 1977 (London, 1977). PQF3.A.
• Robinson, P. R., ‘The “Booklet”: A Self-Contained Unit in Composite Manuscripts’, in A. Gruys and J. P. Gumbert (ed.), Codicologica, vol. 3, Essais typologiques (Leiden, 1980), pp. 46–69. ZNGBM: Ask at Enquiries. Oversize Pamphlet.
• Rouse, M. A., and R. H. Rouse, Authentic Witnesses: Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts (Notre Dame 1991). Collected essays.
• Rouse, M. A., and R. H. Rouse, Manuscripts and their Makers. Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200–1500, 2 vols (Turnhout, 2000).
• Russell, D. W., ‘Admiring Ambivalence: On Paul Meyer’s Anglo-Norman Scholarship’, in T. Fenster and C. P. Collette (eds), The French of Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 241–56. Discusses nineteenth-century editorial policy in respect of Anglo-Norman texts, and how this continues to influence modern academic thinking.
• Saenger, P., Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading (Stanford, CA, 1997).
• Sandler, L. F., The Lichtenthal Psalter and the Manuscript Patronage of the Bohun Family, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Art History 38 (London, 2004).
• Schleif, C., and V. Schier (eds), Manuscripts Changing Hands, Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien 31 (Wiesbaden, 2016). Essays that deal in some way with manuscripts being exchanged, or worked upon by multiple individuals.
• Shailor, B. A., The Medieval Book (Toronto, 1988).
• Sherman, W. H., Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (Philadelphia, PA, 2008). ZD3ea.E.
• Smeyers, M., Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century: The Medieval World on Parchment (Turnhout, 1999). Oversize 98VSRjp.B. Restricted Access: Ask at Enquiries.
• Smith, L. J., Masters of the Sacred Page (Notre Dame, IN, 2003).
• Tonry, K., Agency and Intention in English Print, 1476–1526, Texts and Transitions (Turnhout, 2016).
• Turner, E. G., The Typology of the Early Codex (Philadelphia, PA, 1978). ZC3.A.
• Wakelin, D., Scribal Correction and Literary Craft: English Manuscripts 1375–1510, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (Cambridge, 2014).
• Walther, I. F., I. F. Walther and N. Wolf, Codices illustres: The World’s Most Famous Illustrated Manuscripts (Cologne, 2001). Oversize 98VSR. Restricted Access: Ask at Enquiries.
• Wieck, R. S., Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art (New York, 1997). Oversize 98VSR.B. Restricted Access: Ask at Enquiries.
• Williams, J. (ed.), Imaging the Early Medieval Bible, The History of the Book (University Park, PA, 1999). PMV.
• Williman, D., and K. Corsano, The World Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis: A Manuscript’s Journey from Saint-Denis to St Pancras, Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture ⁄ Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Berlin, 2020).
• Winsbury, R., The Roman Book: Books, Publishing and Performance in Classical Rome (London, 2009). ZC3.AL.

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