Manuscript Studies
Medieval and Early Modern

Site Map: An Outline Guide to the Manuscript Studies Site

• Main Page
• Course Notes
• Bibliography
• Site Map

• Main Page

  Introductory page, with statement of intent and list of main subheadings: the usual "entrance" to the site.

• Course Notes

  A collection of pages, which present the "course content": an introduction to medieval and early modern "manuscript studies."

• I. Towards a definition of "manuscript studies"
• I.ii. The four branches of bibliographical study
• I.iii. Topics in the social history of texts
• I.iii.a The "Rescue" of Medieval Manuscripts from Grocers and Fishmongers
• II. Diplomatics
• III. Codicology
• III.ii. Decoration and Illumination
• IV. Paleography
• IV.ii. Historical Notes
• IV.iii. Writing Implements
• IV.iv. Letter Formation
• IV.v. Special Characters in English Manuscripts
• IV.vi. Scribal Abbreviations
• IV.vii. Punctuation
• IV.viii. Paleographical sample: William Herebert, OFM (early fourteenth-century England)
• Herebert sample, with transcription
• Herebert sample: enlargement of full page reproduced at high resolution
• V. Textual analysis (James E. Thorpe)
• V.ii. Scribal error
• V.iii. Kinds of edition
• V.iv. Examples of over emendation on insufficient grounds
• VI. Linguistic competence (an example): An Outline History of the English Language
• VII. Libraries and archives
• VII.ii. British Library Manuscript Collections
• VII.iii. Bodleian Library Manuscript Collections

• Bibliography

  A collection of bibliographies on the various topics within the scope of this course. Besides viewing bibliographies on separate topics, there is also a facility for searching the complete bibliography by keywords (single or in combination).

• Some basic resources worth knowing
• General bibliography
• History of the book
• Literacy and education, medieval and early modern (readers and reading)
• Archival research
• Forgeries / bibliographic fraud
• Dictionaries (historical)
• Early printed books and incunabula: Early Modern book culture
• Early printed books and incunabula: production
• Early printed books and incunabula: catalogues
• Early printed books and incunabula: facsimiles
• Diplomatics: the study of historical documents
• Printing, history of
• Publishing, history of
• Libraries and repositories, history of; book collecting
• Manuscript culture
• Manuscript culture: patronage
• Manuscripts: codicology
• Manuscripts: paleography
• Manuscript production
• Manuscript production: scribes and scribal practices
• Manuscript production: decoration and illustration
• Manuscript production: material culture (paper, bindings, etc.)
• Manuscripts: catalogues and finding aids
• Manuscripts: facsimiles and facsimile editions
• Sigillography (the study of seals)
• Textual criticism and editing
• Keyword search of entire bibliography

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English; University of Alberta; Edmonton, Canada
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Created: 29 Oct. 1998; Last revised: 30 May 2015

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