Image of St. Mark in a medieval manuscript

Codicology and Latin Paleography

MDVL 6000
Spring 2009

Required Reading Assignments

January 7

for discussion: Harry Y. Gamble, “The Early Christian Book,” in Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 42-81 and 264-79 [Waldo Library Reserve: BR 67.2 .G35 1995 and RRC: Offprint Collection]

January 12

consult: Clemens and Graham, Part 1

January 21

for discussion: Richard Pfaff, “M. R. James on the Cataloguing of Manuscripts: A Draft Essay of 1906,” Scriptorium 31 (1977): 103-18 [Waldo Library General Stacks: Z 108 .S35 and RRC: Offprint Collection]

January 26

for discussion: James J. John, “Latin Paleography,” in Medieval Studies: An Introduction, 2nd ed., ed. James M. Powell (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992), 3-81 [Waldo Library Reference and RRC: D 116 .M4 1992]

January 28

consult: Bernhard Bischoff, Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, trans. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín and David Ganz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) [Waldo Library Reserve and RRC: Z 114 .B5713 1990]

consult: Michelle P. Brown, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (London: British Library, 1990) [Waldo Library Reference: Z 113 .B768x 1990; RRC: Z 113 .B768 1990]

consult: James J. John, “Terminology,” in Medieval Studies: An Introduction, 2nd ed., ed. James M. Powell (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992), 6-9 [Waldo Library Reference and RRC: D 116 .M4 1992]

February 2

for discussion: Clemens and Graham, Chapter 5

February 9

for discussion: Clemens and Graham, Chapter 6

February 16

for discussion: Clemens and Graham, Chapter 7

February 23

for discussion: Clemens and Graham, Chapter 8

March 9

for discussion: Clemens and Graham, Chapter 9

March 16

for discussion: S. J. P. van Dijk, “An Advertisement Sheet of an Early Fourteenth-Century Writing Master at Oxford,” Scriptorium 10 (1956): 47-64 [Waldo Library General Stacks: Z 108 .S35 and RRC: Offprint Collection]

for discussion: Albert Derolez, “Introduction,” in The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, 9 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 1-27 [Waldo Library Reserve and RRC: Z 106.5 .E85 D47 2003]

March 23

consult: Clemens and Graham, Part 3

March 30

consult: Bernhard Bischoff, Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, trans. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín and David Ganz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) [Waldo Library Reserve and RRC: Z 114 .B5713 1990]

consult: Michelle P. Brown, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (London: British Library, 1990) [Waldo Library Reference: Z 113 .B768x 1990; RRC: Z 113 .B768 1990]

consult: T. J. Brown, “Palaeography: Latin and Western European Vernacular,” in A Palaeographer’s View: The Selected Writings of Julian Brown, ed. J. Bately, M. P. Brown, and J. Roberts (London: Harvey Miller, 1993), 60-78 and 87-91 [Waldo Library Reserve, Waldo Library RBR Reference, and RRC: Z 109 .B76x]

consult: Clemens and Graham, Chapter 10

consult: Albert Derolez, “Introduction,” in The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, 9 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 1-27 [Waldo Library Reserve and RRC: Z 106.5 .E85 D47 2003]

consult: James J. John, “A Sketch of Medieval Scripts,” in Medieval Studies: An Introduction, 2nd ed., ed. James M. Powell (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992), 9-43 [Waldo Library Reference and RRC: D 116 .M4 1992]

April 6

consult: Alison Goddard Elliott, “A Brief Introduction to Medieval Latin Grammar,” in Medieval Latin, ed. K. P. Harrington, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), 1-51 [RRC: Offprint Collection]

consult: John Thorley, “Introduction,” in Documents in Medieval Latin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), 11-21 [Waldo Library Reserve and RRC: PA 2825 .T48 1998]

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