Manuscript Studies
Medieval and Early Modern

Site Map: An Outline Guide to the Manuscript Studies Site

• Main Page
• Course Notes
• Bibliography
• Links
• Site Map

• Main Page

  Introductory page, with statement of intent and list of main subheadings: the usual "entrance" to the site.

• Course Notes

  A collection of pages, which present the "course content": an introduction to medieval and early modern "manuscript studies."

• I. Towards a definition of "manuscript studies"
• I.ii. The four branches of bibliographical study
• I.iii. Topics in the social history of texts
• II. Diplomatics
• III. Codicology
• III.ii. Decoration and Illumination
• IV. Paleography
• IV.ii. Historical Notes
• IV.iii. Writing Implements
• IV.iv. Letter Formation
• IV.v. Special Characters in English Manuscripts
• IV.vi. Scribal Abbreviations
• IV.vii. Punctuation
• IV.viii. Paleographical sample: William Herebert, OFM (early fourteenth-century England)
• Herebert sample, with transcription
• Herebert sample: enlargement of full page reproduced at high resolution
• V. Textual analysis (James E. Thorpe)
• V.ii. Scribal error
• V.iii. Kinds of edition
• V.iv. Examples of over emendation on insufficient grounds
• VI. Linguistic competence (an example): An Outline History of the English Language
• VII. Libraries and archives
• VII.ii. British Library Manuscript Collections
• VII.iii. Bodleian Library Manuscript Collections

• Bibliography

  A collection of bibliographies on the various topics within the scope of this course. Besides viewing bibliographies on separate topics, there is also a facility for searching the complete bibliography by keywords (single or in combination).

• Some basic resources worth knowing
• General bibliography
• History of the book
• Literacy and education, medieval and early modern (readers and reading)
• Archival research
• Forgeries / bibliographic fraud
• Dictionaries (historical)
• Early printed books and incunabula: production
• Early printed books and incunabula: catalogues
• Early printed books and incunabula: facsimiles
• Diplomatics: the study of historical documents
• Printing, history of
• Publishing, history of
• Libraries and repositories, history of; book collecting
• Manuscript culture
• Manuscript culture: patronage
• Manuscripts: codicology
• Manuscripts: paleography
• Manuscript production
• Manuscript production: scribes and scribal practices
• Manuscript production: decoration and illustration
• Manuscript production: material culture (paper, bindings, etc.)
• Manuscripts: catalogues and finding aids
• Manuscripts: facsimiles and facsimile editions
• Sigillography (the study of seals)
• Textual criticism and editing
• Keyword search of entire bibliography

• Links

  A single page offering links to other web sites; these sites have been selected because they are related to our project either in terms of their subject matter or in terms of offering models for the delivery of course materials on the web.

• Site Map

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© 1998 Stephen R. Reimer
English; University of Alberta; Edmonton, Canada
All rights reserved.
Created: 29 Oct. 1998; Last revised: 2 Dec. 1998

email: Stephen.Reimer@UAlberta.Ca
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