HIST 509
L A T I N P A L A E O G R
A P H Y
for
Medieval and Early Modern European History
The purpose of this course is to introduce
the basic elements of medieval Latin (and also
vernacular) palaeography and manuscripts to enable a research student to work
with primary sources in their ‘original’ form.
The course will comprise two elements:
·
a chronological
survey of the development of Latin handwriting in the Middle Ages, including a
‘week-by-week’ examination of the most important scripts (with an emphasis on
those relevant to British history);
·
an introduction to other aspects of medieval manuscript
studies, such as illumination and codicology.
This www page
contains the Course Outline, links to Some Online Resources and a Bibliography
of relevant books held in Bilkent Library.
Course Outline
·
Introduction: Some Basic
Palaeographical Principles and Concepts
·
Behind the Words: Abbreviations,
Punctuation, and Numerals (plus a glance at ‘Record Type’)
·
The Origins of Medieval Palaeography:
Roman Scripts
·
The Early Middle Ages: Insular and
Continental ‘National’ Scripts
·
Later Insular Devlopments: Late
Anglo-Saxon and Medieval/Early Modern Irish Scripts
·
Codicology: The Manuscript and its
Makeup
·
Caroline Minuscule
·
Early/Proto-Gothic Scripts
·
Gothic Textualis Scripts: ‘Black
Letter’
·
Manuscript Illumination (esp.
illuminated capitals)
·
Gothic Cursive Documentary Scripts: Anglicana
Documentaria
·
Gothic Cursive Book Scripts I:
Anglicana Formata or Court Hand
·
Gothic Cursive Book Scripts II:
Secretary Hand
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Humanistic and Italic Scripts
Some
Online Resources: Tutorials and E-Books (links
last checked 10 Jan. 07)
·
Arrighi, Ludovico
degli, La Operina (1522): introduction to Italic script.
·
Cappelli,
Adriano, Lexicon Abbreviaturarum
(Leipzig, 1928): scanned images
of the German translation.
·
Cours de paléographie: mostly (very) late medieval and early modern in
scope.
·
Dave
Postle’s Palaeography Tutorial:
a great interactive site.
·
Ductus: demo version of commercial palaeography software.
·
English
Handwriting 1500-1700: An Online Course: hosted by the Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service.
·
Exercises in
Latin Palaeography: English
version of Italian web-site.
·
Lector - Transkription
von mittelalterlichen Quellentexten computergestützt üben: pdf file.
·
Lindsay, W. M., Notae Latinae (Cambridge, 1915): scanned images can be downloaded in various
formats, inc. pdf.
·
Manuscript Studies:
Medieval and Early Modern:
homepage for a course at
·
Medieval
Writing: excellent links section
as well as palaeography exercises.
·
Paléographie &
manuscrits en ligne
·
Palaeography: Reading
Old Handwriting 1500 – 1800: A
practical online tutorial from the National Archives,
·
Paläographisches
Lesetraining für lateinische Schriften des 5. – 20. Jahrhunderts: German site by Thomas Frenz, Universität Passau.
·
ScottishHandwriting.com: Early modern palaeography based on MSS from
·
Steffens,
Franz, Paléographie latine (Paris,
1910): pdf files of French
translation of his Lateinische
Paläographie.
·
Thompson, Edward
Maunde, An Introduction to Greek and Latin
Palaeography (1912)
·
Vocabulaire
codicologique: Explanations of
terms used in codicology.
Bibliography: Relevant Books held in Bilkent Library
·
Alexander, J. J. G., Medieval
Illuminators and their Methods of Work (1992)
·
Avrin, Leila, Scribes, Script and
Books: The Book Arts from Antiquity to the Renaissance (1991)
·
Backhouse, Janet, The
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Barney, Stephen A., Annotation and
its Texts (1991)
·
Bately, Janet, Michelle Brown, and Jane
Roberts (edd.), A Palaeographer's View. Selected Writings of Julian Brown
(1993)
·
Beal, Peter, and Terry Griffiths
(edd.), English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700 (vols 1, 3-4)
·
Bischoff, Bernhard, Latin
Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages (1990)
·
---, Manuscripts and Libraries in
the Age of Charlemagne (1994)
·
Boyle, Leonard E., Medieval Latin
Palaeography: A Bibliographical Introduction
(1984) – updated online here.
·
Brown, Michelle P., A Guide to
Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (1990)
·
---, Understanding Illuminated
Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms (1994)
·
---, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
(1991)
·
Brownrigg , Linda L. (ed.), Making
the Medieval Book: Techniques of Production (1995)
·
Dahl, Svend, History of the Book
(1968), esp. chs. 2 and 3
·
·
de Hamel, Christopher, Scribes and
Illuminators (1992)
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---, A History of Illuminated
Manuscripts (1986/1994)
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Drogin, Marc, Medieval Calligraphy:
Its History and Technique (1980)
·
Fairbank, A.J., and R. W. Hunt, Humanistic
Script of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (1993)
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Gaur, Albertine, A History of Calligraphy (1994)
·
Goldberg, Jonathan, Writing Matter
from the Hands of the English Renaissance (1990)
·
Gosden, David, Starting to Read
Medieval Latin Manuscript. An Introduction for Students of Medieval History and
Genealogy Who Wish to Venture into Latin Texts (1993)
·
Guyotjeannin, Olivier, Jacques Pycke
and Benoît-Michel Tock, Diplomatique
médiévale (1993)
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Ison, Alf, A Secretary Hand ABC Book (1982)
·
John, James A., ‘Latin Paleography’, in
Medieval Studies: An Introduction,
ed. by James M. Powell (1992), pp. 3-81
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Ker, N. R., Medieval Manuscripts in
British Libraries (1969)
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Korhammer, Michael (ed.), Words,
Texts and Manuscripts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture (1992)
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Lowe, E. A., Handwriting (1969)
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Maniaci, Marilena, Terminologia
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Manion, Margaret M., and Bernard J.
Muir (edd.), Medieval Texts and Images: Studies of Manuscripts from the
Middle Ages (1991)
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Monks, Peter Rolfe, and D. R. Owen
(edd.), Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature, and Translation:
Studies for Keith Val Sinclair (1994)
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Munby, Lionel M., Reading Tudor and
Stuart Handwriting (1988)
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Parkes, M. B., Scribes, Scripts and Readers:
Studies in the Communication, Preservation and Dissemination of Medieval Texts
(
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Petti, Anthony G., English Literary Hands from Chaucer to Dryden (1977)
·
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Pulsiano, Phillip, and Elaine M.
Treharne (eds.), Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage (1998)
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Reynolds, L. D. and N. G. Wilson,
Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature
(1991)
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Roberts, Colin H., and T. C. Skeat The Birth of the Codex (1983)
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Robinson, Andrew, The Story of
Writing: with over 350 Illustrations, 50 in Color (1995)
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Robinson, P. R. and Rivkah Zim (eds.), Of
the Making of Books: Medieval Manuscripts, their Scribes and Readers. Essays
presented to M. B. Parkes (1997)
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Rouse, Mary A., Authentic Witnesses:
Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manusripts (1991)
·
Samaran, Charles, and Robert Marichal, Catalogue
des manuscrits en écriture latine, textes et planches, vols II-VII
(1962-84)
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Stiennon, Jacques, Paleographie du
moyen âge (1991)
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---, L'ecriture, Typologie des sources du Moyen Age occidental, 72
(1995)
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Thompson, Edward Maunde, An Introduction to
Greek and Latin Palaeography (1912)
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Thoyts, E. E., How to Read Old
Documents (1980)
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Ullman, Berthold Louis, Ancient
Writing and its Influence (1969)