Early Modern Paleography - Folger Shakespeare Library

Late medieval paleography
Bishop, Terence Alan Martyn. English Caroline Minuscule. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
Brown, Michelle P., A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600. London: The
British Library, 1990.
Chaplais, Pierre. English Royal Documents: King John – Henry VI, 1199-1461. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1971.
Denholm-Young, N. Handwriting in England and Wales. Cardiff, 1954. [includes lists of
abbreviations and notes on punctuation and numbers]
Hector, L. C.. The Handwriting of English Documents. London, 1966. [eighth to nineteenth
century; chapters on abbreviations, scribal conventions, and “English handwriting since 1500”
(pp. 60-68); plates and transcriptions]
Johnson, C. and Hilary Jenkinson. English Court Hand A.D. 1066-1500, Illustrated Chiefly from
the Public Records. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915. [contains chronological history of
individual letter forms and abbreviations]
Parkes, M.B., English Cursive Bookhands, 1250-1500. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.
Thomson, S. Harrison. Latin Bookhands of the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1500. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1969. [see plates 83-108 for Britain]
Wright, Andrew. Court-hand Restored, or, the Student’s Assistant in Reading Old Deeds,
Charters, Records, etc…. 10 th ed., corrected and enlarged by Charles Trice Martin. London,
1912. [useful lists of abbreviations, place names and personal names, and glossary of Latin
words]
Wright, Cyril Ernest. English Vernacular Hands from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Centuries.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960.
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