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E 891A: EARLY TEXTUAL CULTURE

RESOURCES
Spring 2012
Office: Bartlett 259
Office Hours: Wed and by appointment.
545-6598 | sharris@english.umass.edu

 

RESOURCES

(Please let me know of any broken links or missing books.)

BOOKS

Latin vocabulary resources.

PROJECT BOOKS:

    Renaissance Center

Collections at RC are here.

Early Printed Books at the RC: 1) go to Library advanced search; 2) select "Renaissance Center" from pull-down menu Location; 3) input years as 1480 to 1600.

     

    AC Manuscripts:

  • MS B 3 no. 1: Holy Office
  • MS B 3 no. 2: Life of St. Anthony of Padua
  • MS B 3 no. 3: Castiglione
  • MS B 3 no. 4: Jerome and Cicero
  • MS B 3 no. 5: Jacopo Campora and De Immortalitate Anime...
  • MS B 3 no. 6: Augustine
  • MS B 3 no. 11: Domenico Cavalca
  • MS B 3 no. 13: Lucan
  • MS B 3 no. 14: Cicero
  • MS B 3 no. 18: Sallust
  • MS B 3 no. 21: Persius
  • MS B 3 no. 23: Ordinal

    • AC Incunables:

  • RBR Incun 1471 Su2: Suetonius
  • RBR Incun 1473 IS3: Isidore of Seville
  • RBR Incun 1474 H7: Horace
  • RBR Incun 1480 B4: Bible
  • RBR Incun 1480 T3: Aquinas
  • RBR Incun 1481 B6: Boethius
  • RBR Incun 1485 H5: Jerome
  • RBR Incun 1490 T3: Aquinas
  • RBR Incun 1492 B2: Bartholomaeus
  • RBR Incun 1494 SCR3: Vegetius
  • RBR Incun 1495 B7: Carmelite Breviary
  • RBR Incun 1496 C4: Cicero
  • RBR Incun 1497 L7: Sermones of Lochmaier
  • RBR Incun 1499 D7: Dominicus de Flandria (on Aristotle)

    • AC Early Books :

  • RBR 16 1502 B4: Psalter
  • RBR 16 1502 or 1504 L9: Lucan
  • RBR 16 1506 B6: Boethius
  • RBR 16 1517 R3: Johann Reuchlin (Cabbalist)
  • RBR 17 1623 AL4: Aelfric

For Smith incunabulae/incunables which might interest you, see the Check List of the Incunabula in the William Allan Neilson Library (SC Art Z240 .s66 and AC A&SC Z240 .s66)

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BOOKS & RESERVES

AMHERST (not on reserve):

  • Boyle, Leonard. Medieval Latin Palaeography: A Bibliographical ... (REF Z196 .b69)
  • Brown, Michelle. A Guide to Western Historical Scripts. (REF Z113 .b7)
  • Hector, L. C. The Handwriting of English Documents. (417 .h357h)
  • Parkes, M. B. English Cursive Book hands, 1251-1500. (417 p2292en)
  • Lowe, E. A. English Uncial. (x 417 .L95en)
  • Light, Laura. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Houghton ... (exemplum)
  • Ker, Neil R. Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries. 3 vols. available (REF Z6620 .g7 k4)
  • Watson, Andrew G. Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, ed. Ker. (Z723 .m43)
  • Ogilvy, J.D.A. Books Known to the English, 597-1066. (Z 6602 .o35)
  • Robinson, P. R. Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Cambridge .... 2 vols. (Z6620 .g7 r7)
  • Briquet, C. M. Les Filigrans. 4 vols. (Spec. coll. x20 .676 b77)

UMASS (on reserve)

  • SHARPE, Richard. Titulus: Identifying Medieval Manuscripts (Z105 .S53 2003)
  • LAPIDGE, Michael. The Anglo-Saxon Library. ( (Z791.E5 L37 2006)
  • HINDMAN, Sandra. Printing the Written Word. (Z126 .P73 1991)
  • IRVINE, Michael. Grammatica. (PN671 .I68 1994)
  • RICHÉ, Pierre. Education and Culture. (LA96 .R5213 1978)
  • OGILVY, J.D.A. Books Known to the English, 597-1066. (Z 6602 .o35)
  • KER, Neil R. Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts, and Libraries (Z 109 .m44)
  • BROWN, Michelle. The British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts. (ART P211 .b6967)
  • BROWN, Michelle. The Historical Source Book for Scribes (ART Z43 .b76)

(not on reserve)

  • Diringer, David. The book before printing : ancient, medieval, and oriental
  • Geary, P. J. (1994). Phantoms of remembrance : memory and oblivion at the end of the first millennium.
  • Keefer, S. L. and K. O. B. O'Keeffe (1998). New approaches to editing Old English verse.
  • Lowe, E. A. (1934). Codices latini antiquiores; a palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century. 3 vols.
  • McKitterick, R. (1989). The Carolingians and the written word.
  • McLuhan, M. (1962). The Gutenberg galaxy; the making of typographic man.
  • Myers, R. and M. Harris (1996). Antiquaries, book collectors, and the circles of learning.
  • Stevick, R. D. (1994). The earliest Irish and English bookarts : visual and poetic forms before A.D. 1000.

SMITH (not on reserve):

  • Kristeller, Paul O. Iter Italicum: a finding list .... 6 vols. (Z6611 .h8 k7)
  • Ker, Neil R. Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts, and Libraries. Z 109 .m44
  • Brown, Michelle. The British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts. (ART P211 .b6967)
  • Brown, Michelle. The Historical Source Book for Scribes. (ART Z43 .b76)
  • Briquet, C. M. Les Filigrans. 4 vols. (Rare Book Room Z 237 .b845)

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