Course Handbook - Faculty of History

M.B. Parkes ‘The provision of books’ in The History of the University of Oxford
II, Late Medieval Oxford, ed. J.I. Catto and R. Evans (1992)
(v) Books for an expanding reading public and commercial book production
C.de Hamel, A history of illuminated manuscripts (2nd edn London 1994)
M.B. Parkes, Scribes, Scripts and Readers: studies in the communication,
presentation and dissemination of medieval texts (1991)
C.P. Christianson A Directory of London Stationers and Book Artisans, 1300 -
1500
A.I. Doyle, ‘The English Provincial Book Trade before Printing’ in Six Centuries
of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain ed. P. Isaac (1990)
(vi) Medieval Libraries
E. Leedham-Green and T. Webber, ed., The Cambridge History of Libraries in
Britain and Ireland, vol. 1 to 1640 (2006)
R. McKitterick, The Carolingians and the Written Word (Cambridge, 1989) chapt.
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K. Christ, Libraries in the Middle Ages, translated from the German (1984)
A. Hobson, Great Libraries of Europe (1970)
Leopold Delisle, Le Cabinet des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Imperiale/Nationale
(Paris 1868-91)
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, vols 1- (1990- )
(vii) Structure and binding of manuscripts
Léon Gilissen, La reliure occidentale antérieure à 1400, (Bibliogia 1), Brepols,
1983
J.A Szirmai, The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding (1999)
D. Cockerell, Bookbinding and the Care of Books, [Reprint, intro. by J.
Greenfield] (1991)
B. Middleton, A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique, [Foreword by
H. Nixon] (3rd supplemented edn, 1988)
J Sheppard, The Buildwas Books. Book Production, Acquisition and Use at the
English Cistercian Monastery, 1165-ca. 1400, Oxford Bibliographical Society
(1997)
General Bibliography
In addition to the studies cited above you may like to look at the following books
on the history of medieval books and the wider cultural setting:
R. McKitterick, The Carolingians and the Written Word (Cambridge 1989)
R. McKitterick (ed.) Carolingian Culture: emulation and innovation (Cambridge
1993)
N. J. Morgan and R. M. Thomson, ed., The Cambridge History of the Book in
Britain, vol. II 1100-1400 (2008)
T.Webber, Scribes and Scholars at Salisbury Cathedral (Oxford 1992)
M.T. Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record 1066-1307 (London, 2nd edn,
1993);
H. Degering, Lettering (1965)
H. Degering, Writing (1962) and The Alphabet (1968)
M. Drogin, Medieval Calligraphy (1980)
S. Morison, Politics and Script (1972)
L.D. Reynolds and N.G.Wilson, Scribes and Scholars 3rd edition (Oxford, 1991)
R.H. Rouse and M.A.Rouse, Authentic Witnesses (1991)
P. Ganz (ed.) The Role of the Book in Mediaeval Culture, Bibliologia 4. Elementa
ad librorum studia pertinentia (Turnhout, 1986).
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