Primary Sources Recomended for Study
The following reading list has been complied to offer current students on the Tripos with the primary sources for the Part I study of:
Part I Paper 10 - Palaeography and codicology
Paper co-ordinator: Dr Judy Quinn (Prelim to Part I) Dr Peter Stokes (Part I)
All the following items are script-facsimiles, mostly of complete manuscripts.
Antiquity
- Capital scripts
- C. Nordenfalk, Vergilius Augusteus (Graz 1976)
- [F. Ehrle,] Picturae, ornamenta, complura scripturae specimina codicis Vaticani 3867, qui Codex Vergilii Romanus audit, Codices e Vaticanis selecti phototypice expressi, Series Maior, II (Roma 1902) [= CLA I.19]
- Uncial
- J.K. Fotheringham, The Bodleian Manuscript of Jerome's Version of the Chronicle of Eusebius (Oxford 1905)
- C. Wessely, Livius: Codex Vindobonensis Lat. 15 (Leiden 1907)
- H. Omont, Histoire des Francs de Grégoire de Tours: Ms. de Beauvais (Paris 1906)
- D.H. Wright & A. Campbell, The Vespasian Psalter (København 1967)
- T.J. Brown, The Stonyhurst Gospel of Saint John (Oxford 1969)
- K. van der Horst & J.H.A. Engelbregt, Utrecht-Psalter (2 vols, Graz 1982-4), folios 94-105
- Half-uncial
- A. Amelli & G.L. Perugi, S. Hilarii Pictaviensis De Trinitate: Codex Archivi S. Petri in Vaticano no. D 182 (2nd edn, Torino 1930)
- Cursive Half-uncial
- R. Gryson & L. Gilissen, Les Scolies ariennes du Parisinus latinus 8907 (Turnhout 1980)
- S. Prete, Il codice di Terenzio Vaticano Latino 3226, Studi e testi 262 (Roma 1970) [= CLA I.12]
Insular Scripts
- Insular Half-uncial
- H.A. Wilson, The Calendar of St. Willibrord (London 1918)
- A.A. Luce, Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Durmachensis (2 vols, Olten 1960)
- T.D. Kendrick et al., Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Lindisfarnensis (3 vols in 2, Olten 1956-60)
- E.H. Alton & P. Meyer, Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Cenannensis (3 vols, Bern 1950-1)
- H.M. Bannister, Specimen Pages of Two Manuscripts of the Abbey of Coupar Angus in Scotland (Roma 1910)
- Insular minuscule
- F.E. Warren, The Antiphonary of Bangor (2 vols, London 1893-5)
- P. Hunter Blair & R.A.B. Mynors, The Moore Bede (København 1959)
- O. Arngart, The Leningrad Bede (København 1952)
- H. Thurn, Comes Romanus Wirziburgensis (Graz 1968)
- G.F. Warner, The Stowe Missal (2 vols, London 1906-15)
- R.W. Hunt, Saint Dunstan's Classbook from Glastonbury (Amsterdam 1961), section 3
- E.[J.] Gwynn, Book of Armagh. The Patrician Documents (Dublin 1937)
- R.I. Best, The Commentary on the Psalms with Glosses in Old-Irish preserved in the Ambrosian Library (MS. C 301 inf.) (Dublin 1936)
- L. Bieler, Psalterium Graeco-Latinum. Codex Basiliensis A.VII.3 (Amsterdam 1960)
- H. Hagen, Codex Bernensis 363 (Leiden 1897)
- A. Reichardt, Der Codex Boernerianus der Briefe des Apostels Paulus (Leipzig 1909)
- N.R. Ker, The Pastoral Care (København 1956)
- T.J. Brown et al., The Durham Ritual (København 1969)
- English Square minuscule
- R. Flower & H. Smith, The Parker Chronicle and Laws (London 1941)
- A. Campbell, The Tollemache Orosius (København 1953)
- J.M. Bately, The Tanner Bede (København 1992)
- C.E. Wright & R. Quirk, Bald's Leechbook (København 1955)
- N. Eliason & P. Clemoes, Ælfric's First Series of Catholic Homilies (København 1966)
- K. Malone, The Nowell Codex (København 1963)
- English vernacular minuscule
- E. Fausbøll, Fifty-six Ælfric Fragments (København 1986)
- R.W. Hunt, Saint Dunstan's Classbook from Glastonbury (Amsterdam 1961), section 2
- H.R. Loyn, A Wulfstan Manuscript (København 1971)
- C.R. Dodwell & P. Clemoes, The Old English Illustrated Hexateuch (København 1974)
- Late Celtic script
- R.W. Hunt, Saint Dunstan's Classbook from Glastonbury (Amsterdam 1961), section 4
- Welsh National minuscule
- H.J. Lawlor, The Psalter and Martyrology of Ricemarch (2 vols, London 1914)
- Gaelic National minuscule
- R.I. Best & E. MacNeill, The Annals of Inisfallen (Dublin 1933)
- C.P. Finlayson, Celtic Psalter: Edinburgh, University Library, MS. 56 (Amsterdam 1962)
Caroline Scripts
- Early Caroline minuscule
- J. Duft, Die Bibel von Moutier-Grandval (Bern 1971)
- K. Menzel et al., Die Trierer Ada-Handschrift (Leipzig 1889)
- B. Bischoff, Der Stuttgarter Bilderpsalter (2 vols, Stuttgart 1965)
- Breton Caroline minuscule
- R.W. Hunt, Saint Dunstan's Classbook from Glastonbury (Amsterdam 1961), section 1
- Anglo-Caroline minuscule, Style I
- G.F. Warner & H.A. Wilson, The Benedictional of Saint Æthelwold (Oxford 1910)
- Cf. German monumental Caroline of the late tenth century:
- H. Schiel, Codex Egberti der Stadtbibliothek Trier (2 vols, Basel 1960).
- Anglo-Caroline minuscule, Style II
- T.A.M. Bishop, Aethici Istrici Cosmographia … Codex Leidensis Scaligeranus 69 (Amsterdam 1966)
- Anglo-Caroline minuscule, Style IV
- K. Breul, The Cambridge Songs (Cambridge 1915)
- B. Colgrave et al., The Paris Psalter (København 1958)
- P. McGurk et al., An Eleventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Illustrated Miscellany (København 1983)
Epigraphy
- V.E. Nash-Williams, The Early Christian Monuments of Wales (Cardiff 1950)
- E. Okasha, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Non-runic Inscriptions (Cambridge 1971)