Palaeography & Manuscript Studies

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CD-Roms

The collection currently holds over fifty CD-Roms in this subject, which can be consulted on any of the high specification computers in the library. All the CD-Roms can be found using the online catalogue system, but below is a selection of the most widely used:

Abbreviationes: database of medieval Latin abbreviations
Caedmon's Hymn (Palaeography Room CD-ROM 41)
Chaucer's The Wife of Bath
Codex Amiatinus (La Bibbia Amiatina) (Palaeography Room CD-ROM 7)
Ductus: an online course in palaeography (Palaeography Room CD-ROM 47)
Electronic Beowulf (Palaeography Room CD-ROM 3)
Hengwrt Chaucer Digital facsimile (Palaeography Room CD-ROM 26)
Image of the World
Living and Working in Seventeenth Century England
MS Junius 11 [Caedmon manuscript]: Bodleian Digital Texts 1 (Palaeography Room CD-ROM 31)
Murthly Hours from the National Library of Scotland (Palaeography Room CD-ROM 2)
One Hundred Treasures from the British Library
Piers Plowman Electronic Archive. Vol. 1: Oxford, Corpus Cristi College, MS 201 (F) (Palaeography Room CD-ROM 4)
Piers Plowman Electronic Archive. Vol. 2: Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (W) (Palaeography Room CD-ROM 5)
Piers Plowman Electronic Archive. Vol. 3: Oxford, Oriel College, MS 79 (O) (Palaeography Room CD-ROM 29)
Piers Plowman Electronic Archive. Vol. 4: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud. Misc. 581 (S.C. 987)(L) (Palaeography Room CD-ROM 30)
Sherborne Missal (Palaeography Room CD-ROM 15)
Theodore psalter (Palaeography Room CD-ROM 20)
Wycliffite Manuscript: The New Testament (Palaeography Room CD-ROM 23)

Vocabulaires and glossaries

Brown, Michelle. Understanding illuminated manuscripts: A guide to technical terms. London, 1994. Online version.

Muzerelle, Denis. Vocabulaire codicologique: répertoire méthodique des termes français relatifs aux manuscrits. Paris, 1985. Online version.

Bibliographies

Boyle, Leonard. Medieval Latin palaeography: A bibliographical introduction . London, 1984. Online version also includes titles from Palaeografia Latina Medievale, Supplemento 1982-1998.

Haidinger, Alois, Franz Lackner and Christine Glaßner. Bibliography on medieval manuscripts in Austria. Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters.

Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Latin manuscript books before 1600: a list of the printed catalogues and unpublished inventories in extant collections. München , 1993. 4th edition. Online version also includes prefaces from all previous editions.

Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche. BibMan: bibliography of Latin manuscripts preserved in Italy

Università degli Studi di Cassino, Dipartimento di Filologia e Storia, Scuola di Specializzazione per Conservatori di Beni Archivistici e Librari della Civiltà Monastica. BMB: bibliografia dei manoscritti in scriturra beneventana. Rome, 1993- . Online version is not up to date.

Wright, Charles. Bibliography and methods in medieval studies. Course at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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