Christopher de Hamel, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Oxford: Phaidon, 1994.

---. Scribes and Illuminators. Toronto and Buffalo: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1992.

Week One: Introduction

Codicology & paleography Terms

Read Barney, Introduction

Week Two: Defining terms

Finish Scribes and Illuminators

Read Parkes, "The Influence"

Week Three: Early Gothic Printing

Become familiar with reading black-letter machine type (Piers the Plowman's Crede)

Read Doyle & Parkes, "The Production"

Week Four

Finish A History of Illuminated Manuscripts

Start Parkes, English Cursive Book Hands, Introduction

Week Five

Finish the Introduction to Parkes; know the various terms (Anglicana, Secretary, etc.) and work on identifying the hands in the examples

Week Six

Continue to work on exemplars in Parkes

Read Hanna, "The Manuscripts"

Look over Root variorum Troilus

Week Seven

Begin similar work on Wright, English Vernacular Hands, including Intro and exemplars

Week Eight

Begin more difficult transcriptions from Vernon MS, Auchinleck MS, or Trinity

Week Nine

Continue transcription project

Week Ten

Continue transcription project

Week Eleven

Continue transcription project

Week Twelve

Continue transcription project

Week Thirteen

Continue transcription project

Week Fourteen

Conclusion of the course: final project due

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript with Variants from the Ellesmere Manuscript. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. [PR1866 .R8 1979]

---. The Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: A Working Facsimile. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1989. [PR1866 .H36 1989]

---. Poetical Works. A Facsimile of Cambridge University Library MS GG. 4.27. Ed. M. B. Parkes and Richard Beadle. 3 vols. Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1979. [Folio PR 1850 1979.]

---. The Pierpont Morgan Library Manuscript M. 817: A Facsimile. Ed. Jeanne Krochalis. Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1986. [Troilus & Criseyde. PR 1895 .K76 1986.]

---. St. John's College, Cambridge, Manuscript L.1: A Facsimile. Ed. Richard Beadle and Jeremy Griffiths. Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1983. [Troilus & Criseyde. PR 1895 .A2 1983.]

The Findern Manuscript (Cambridge University Library MS. Ff.1.6). London: Scolar Press, 1977. [PR1120 .F5 1977]

Manuscript Tanner 346: A Facsimile. Ed. Pamela Robinson. Norman: Pilgrim Books, 1980. [A miscellany mostly of Chaucer's minor writings such as The Legend of Good Women or some complaint poems. PR 1203 .B58 1980.]

*Manuscript Trinity R..3.19: A Facsimile. Ed. Bradford Y. Fletcher. Norman: Pilgrim Books, 1987. [Contains Chaucer and some Lydgate material.]

The Vernon Manuscript: A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Eng. Poet. a.1. Ed. A. I. Doyle. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987. [A huge, cumbersome, important miscellany (in my office now) that contains chiefly moral material such as The South English Legendary, The Northern Homily Cycle, The Pricke of Conscience, etc. Some wonderful moral lyrics are included in this miscellany. Folio+ PR 1120 .v47 1987. In my office.]

Adams, Robert. "Editing and the Limitations of the Durior Lectio." The Yearbook of Langland Studies 5 (1991): 7-15.

Barney, Stephen A. Studies in Troilus: Chaucer's Text, Meter, and Diction. East Lansing, Mich.: Colleagues Press, 1993. [Contains important definitions of terms for beginners, esp. the Introduction.]

Bischoff, Bernhard. Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Trans. Daibhi O. Cronin and David Ganz. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990.

Boyle, Leonard. Medieval Latin Palaeography: A Bibliographical Introduction. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1984.

Brown, Michelle. A Guide to Western Historical Scripts: From Antiquity to 1600. London : British Library, 1990.

Camille, Michael. Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992. [Relationship of picture to text in manuscript culture.]

*Campbell, Hugh P., ed. The Old Testament History of The South English Legendary. Ph.D. Thesis (Univ. of Delaware), 1994. [Worked chiefly from the Vernon MS.]

*Cappelli, A. Lexicon abbreviaturarum: Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane. 6th ed. Milan: Hoepli, 1961. [Standard work for tracking down the numerous Latin abbreviations in MSS.]

*Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Book of Troilus and Criseyde. Ed. R. K. Root. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1926. [PR1895 .R6 Famous variorum edition of Troilus; now superseded by the editions of Stephen Barney for The Riverside Chaucer and Barry Windeatt.]

Chaytor, A. J. From Script to Print: An Introduction to Medieval Vernacular Literature. Cambridge: Heffer, 1945.

De Hamel, Christopher. Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Book Trade. Woodbridge and Wolfeboro,
N.H.: Boydell & Brewer, 1984.

---. History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Oxford: Phaidon, 1994. [ND 2900 .D36 1986b.]

---. Scribes and Illuminators. Toronto and Buffalo: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1992. [ND 2920 .D44x 1992. In my office.]

 Doyle, A. I., and M. B. Parkes. "The Production of Copies of the Canterbury Tales and the Confessio Amantis in the Early Fifteenth Century." In Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts, and Libraries, ed. M. B. Parkes. Pp. 163-210.

Duggan, Hoyt. "Scribal Self-Correction and Editorial Theory." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 91 (1990): 309-29.

Edwards, A. S. G. "Observations on the History of Middle English Editing." In Manuscripts and Texts, ed. Pearsall. Pp. 34-48.

English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700. Z115 .E5 E55

Greetham, D. C. Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. New York: Garland Pub., 1994. [Z1001 .G7 1994. Note: I haven't seen this yet but it looks pertinent.]

Hanna, Ralph, III. "Problems of 'Best Text' Editing and the Hengwrt Manuscript of The Canterbury Tales." In Manuscripts and Texts, ed. Pearsall. Pp. 87-94.

*---. "The Manuscripts and Transmission of Chaucer's Troilus." In The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard, ed. James M. Dean and Christian K. Zacher. Newark, Del.: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1992. Pp. 173-88.

---. "Studies in the Manuscripts of Piers Plowman." The Yearbook of Langland Studies 7 (1993): 1- 25. [PR 2015 .Y32 v. 7. In my office.]

*Henry, Avril. On-Line Bibliography originally published on ANSAX-L.

Hunt, R. W. "Palaeography." Chambers's Encyclopaedia. Vol. 10. London, 1950.

Irvine, Martin.  Paleography and Codicology: a Web Bibliography at the Labyrinth Project, Georgetown.

Kane, George, and E. Talbot Donaldson, eds. Piers Plowman: The B Version. London: Athlone Press, 1975. [PR 2010 .K321x 1975. In my office.]

Manly, John Matthews, and Edith Rickert, eds. The Text of the Canterbury Tales, Studied on the Basis of All Known Manuscripts. Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press, 1940. [Variorum edition of The Canterbury Tales. PR1874 .M35]

*Parkes, M. B. English Cursive Book Hands 1250-1500. Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks. Oxford: Clarendon, 1969.

---. "The Influence of the Concepts of Ordinatio and Compilatio on the Development of the Book." In Medieval Learning and Literature: Essays Presented to Richard William Hunt, ed. J. J. G. Alexander and M. T. Gibson. Oxford: Clarendon, 1976.

---. Scribes, Scripts, and Readers: Studies in the Communication, Presentation, and Dissemination of Medieval Texts.
London, U.K. ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1991.

---. Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West. Berkeley : University of California Press,
1993.

---, and A. G. Watson, eds. Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts, and Libraries: Essays Presented to N. R. Ker. London: Scolar Press, 1978.

*Pearsall, Derek, ed. Manuscripts and Texts: Editorial Problems in Later Middle English Literature. Essays from the 1985 Conference at the University of York. Cambridge, Eng.: D. S. Brewer, 1985.

*---. Old English and Middle English Poetry. The Routledge History of English Poetry, Vol. 1. London: Routledge, 1977.

---, ed. Studies in the Vernon Manuscript. Cambridge, Eng.: D. S. Brewer, 1990. [Collection of essays. Rev. by M. C. Seymour in English Studies 73 (1992): 367-68 and by Emerson Brown, Jr., in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994): 241-45.]

Preson, Jean F. and Laetitia Yeandle.  English Handwriting, 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual.  Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992.  [Z115 .E5 P74 1992]

Shailor, Barbara A. The Medieval Book.  Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1991.
 
Silvia, Daniel S. "Some Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales." In Chaucer and Middle English Studies in Honour of R. H. Robbins, ed. Beryl Rowland. London: Allen & Unwin, 1974. Pp. 328-41. [PR251 .C5 1974]

Studies in Bibliography. Z1008 .V56

Tanselle, G. Thomas. "Classical, Biblical, and Medieval Textual Criticism and Modern Editing." Studies in Bibliography 36 (1983): 21-68.

*Wright, C. E. English Vernacular Hands from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Centuries. Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks. Oxford: Clarendon, 1960.