I. Medieval Libraries and Scriptoria
II. Medieval Library Catalogues, Booklists, and Book Inventories
III. Medieval Transmission of Texts and Manuscripts
IV. Modern Manuscript Catalogues
- Bibliographies
- Catalogues
- Catalogues of Incunabula
- Catalogues of Dated and Datable Manuscripts
- Catalogues of Illuminated Manuscripts
- By Script
- By Language
- By Genre
- By Author/Text
- By Period
V. Online Manuscript Catalogues and Digitized Manuscripts
- Comprehensive Listings and Gateways
- Multiple Libraries
- Virtual Medieval/Renaissance Libraries
- Some Individual Modern Libraries
I. Medieval Libraries and Scriptoria
This section is intended to provide some basic bibliographical context on the major institutional settings in which medieval library catalogues, booklists, and inventories were produced. It is not possible to include more than a few representative items on individual libraries and scriptoria, but the reference works cited below will enable users to locate the relevant texts and scholarship.
Note that the scholarship on libraries and on scriptoria is overlapping, but items relevant to both categories are not double-listed below. General scholarship on manuscript studies and book history often deals with libraries and scriptoria, but cannot be covered here.
Libraries
Bibliographies
Cumulative
Leonard Boyle, Medieval Latin Palaeography: A Bibliographical Introduction (Toronto, 1986), pp. 202-14. WorldCat See also the iindex, s.v. “Libraries, medieval.” An online supplement by Fabio Troncarelli, Electronic Palaeography: A New Bibliographical Website, has been inaccessible for several years, but has been archived on Wayback Machine.
Stage d’initiation au manuscrit médiéval de l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (2015). “Bibliographie pour l’étude des bibliothèques médiévales,” pp. 98-104.
Pascale Bourgain, “Bibliographie de Codicologie 3. Les bibliothèques médiévales,” (Theleme)
Anne Tournieroux et al., Histoire des bibliothèques médiévales (Ménestrel)
David Rundle, “Translating the Past Codicology and Incunabula A Very Brief Bibliography, Version 3.1 (1st June 2013).” Includes sections on libraries and cataloguing.
Serial
Medioevo Latino. Bollettino bibliografico della cultura europea dal secolo VI al XIII, gen. ed. Claudio Leonardi(Spoleto, 1980- ). WorldCat . See the section “Bibliotheche Medievali.”
Databases
Mirabile: DB Mediolatino. In the search field “Bibliotheche,” selecting “Luoghi” brings up an alphabetized list of over 9,000 records.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
International Dictionary of Library Histories, ed. David H. Stam, 2 vols. (Chicago, 2001). WorldCat
Introductions, Guides, and Handbooks
Karl Christ, The Handbook of Medieval Library History, trans. Theophil M. Otto (Metuchen NJ, 1984). WorldCat From the revision by Anton Kern of Christ’s contribution to the Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft, 2nd ed. (Wiesbaden, 1950-65), vol. 3: Geschichte der Bibliotheken, pt. 5: Das Mittelalter. WorldCat
Konstantinos Sp. Staikos, The History of the Library in Western Civilization, vol. 4: From Cassiodorus to Furnival: Classical and Christian Letters, Schools and Libraries in the Monasteries and Universities, Western Book Centres(Leiden, 2010). WorldCat
Teresa Weber, “The Libraries of Religious Houses,” in The European Book in the Twelfth Century, ed. Erik Kwakkeland Rodney Thomson, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 101 (Cambridge, 2018), pp. 103-21. WorldCat
James Westfall Thompson, The Medieval Library (1939; repr. with a supplement by Blanche B. Boyer, New York, 1957). WorldCat
M. R. James, The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts, Helps for Students of History 17 (London, 1919). WorldCat
John Williams Clark, The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries and Their Fittings, from the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 1901). WorldCat
Henri Leclercq, art. “Bibliothèques,” Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie, vol. 2, pt. 1, ed. Fernand Cabrol (Paris, 1910), cols. 842-904. WorldCat
Studies:
Roger Chartier, The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries, trans. L. G. Cochrane (Stanford CA, 1994). WorldCat An influential study, though the focus is largely post-medieval.
Richard Gameson, “The Image of the Medieval Library,” in The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History, ed. Alice Crawford (Princeton NJ, 2015), pp. 31-70. WorldCat
R. M. Wilson, “The Contents of the Mediaeval Library,” In The English Library before 1700. Studies in its History, ed. Francis Wormald and C. E. Wright (London, 1958), pp. 85-111. WorldCat
Jean-Françoise Genest, “Le mobilier des bibliothèques d’après les inventaires médiévaux,” in Vocabulaire du livre et de l’écriture au moyen âge, ed. Olga Weijers (Turnhout, 1989), pp. 135-54. WorldCat .
Collections of Essays
Multiple Authors:
Du copiste au collectionneur. Mélanges d’histoire des textes et des bibliothèques en l’honneur d’André Vernet, ed. Donatella Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda and Jean-François Genest, Bibliologia 18 (Turnhout, 1998). WorldCat
Le biblioteche nel mondo antico e medievale, ed. Guglielmo Cavallo, 2nd ed., Biblioteca universale Laterza 250 (Bari, 1988). WorldCat
Per una storia delle biblioteche dall’antichità al primo Rinascimento, ed. Antonio Manfredi with Francesca Curzi and Stefania Laudoni, La casa dei libri. Quaderni della scuola Vaticana di Biblioteconomia 3 (Vatican City, 2019).
Zur Erforschung mittelalterlicher Bibliotheken: Chancen, Entwicklungen, Perspektiven, ed. Andrea Rapp und Michael Embach, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, Sonderbände 97 (Frankfurt am Main, 2009). WorldCat
Digitale Rekonstruktionen mittelalterlicher Bibliotheken, ed. Sabine Philippi and Philipp Vanscheidt, Trierer Beiträge zu den historischen Kulturwissenschaften 12 (Wiesbaden, 2014). WorldCat
Kirchliche Buchbestände als Quelle der Kulturgeschichte, ed. Johannes Merz and Nikola Willner, Veröffentlichungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Katholisch-Theologischer Bibliotheken 5 (Würzburg, 2010). WorldCat
Single Authors:
Bernhard Bischoff, Mittelalterliche Studien: Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur Schriftkunde und Literaturgeschichte, 3 vols. (Stuttgart, 1966-81). WorldCat
Élisabeth Pellegrin, Bibliothèques retrouvées: manuscrits, bibliothèques et bibliophiles du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance. Recueil d’études publiées de 1938 à 1985 (Paris, 1990). WorldCat
Mary A. Rouse and Richard H. Rouse, Authentic Witnesses: Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts (Notre Dame IN, 1991). WorldCat
Jean-Luc Deuffic, Livres et bibliothèques au Moyen Âge, Le livre médiéval 1 (Saint-Denis, 2005). WorldCat
Websites
Libraria: Pour l’histoire des bibliothèques anciennes. The site has three indices: Index Noms propres; Index Manuscrits; Index Ordres religieux.
By Region/Country
Austria
Bibliographies:
Andreas Fingernagel and Katharina Kaska, “National background: Austria 2016)
Bibliographie Österreichische Stifts- und Klosterbibliotheken
Collections of Essays:
Kurt Holter, Handschriften, Bibliotheken: Beiträge zur mitteleuropäischen Buchkultur vom Frühmittelalter bis zur Renaissance, 2 vols., ed. Georg Heilingsetzer and Winfried Stelzer, Schriftenreihe des Oberösterreichischen Musealvereins–Gesellschaft für Landeskunde 15-16 (Linz, 1996). WorldCat
Studies:Friedrich Buchmayr, “Secularization and Monastic Libraries in Austria,” in Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity, ed. James Raven (London, 2004), pp. 145-62. WorldCat Websites:Manuscripta Mediaevalia Austriaca: Mittelalterliche Handschriften in Österreichischen Bibliotheken. With associated database manuscripta.at – Mittelalterliche Handschriften in Österreich.
Britain
Bibliographies:
David Bell, “Libraries in England and Wales,” Oxford Bibliographies: Medieval Studies
Histories and Surveys:
Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library (Oxford, 2005). WorldCat
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 1: c. 400-1100, ed. Richard Gameson (Cambridge, 2011). WorldCat
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 2: 1100-1400, ed. Nigel Morgan and Rodney Thomson(Cambridge, 2008). WorldCat
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 3: 1400-1557, ed. Lotte Hellinga and J. B. Trapp (Cambridge, 1999). WorldCat
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, vol. 1: To 1640, ed. Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Teresa Webber (Cambridge, 2006). WorldCat
The English Library before 1700. Studies in its History, ed. Francis Wormald and C. E. Wright (London, 1958). WorldCat
Collections of Essays:
Multiple Authors:
N. R. Ker, Books, Collectors and Libraries, Studies in the Medieval Heritage, ed. Andrew G. Watson (London, 1985). WorldCat
Writing in Context: Insular Manuscript Culture 500-1200, ed. Erik Kwakkel, Rosamond McKitterick, and Rodney M. Thomson, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture 2 (Leiden 2013), pp. 141-76. WorldCat
Single Authors:
Helmut Gneuss, Books and Libraries in Early England, Variorum Coillected Studies Series (Aldershot, 1996). WorldCat
Studies:
David Dumville, “English Libraries Before 1066: Use and Abuse of the Manuscript Evidence,” in Insular Latin Studies. Papers on Latin Texts and Manuscripts of the British Isles, 550-1066, ed. Michael W. Herren, Papers in Mediaeval Studies 1 (Toronto, 1981), pp. 153-78 WorldCat ; repr. in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, ed. Mary Richards, pp. 169-219. Includes a list of surviving manuscripts that have been attributed to a particular center.
Teresa Webber, Scribes and Scholars at Salisbury Cathedral c. 1075-c. 1125, Oxford Historical Monographs (Oxford, 1992). WorldCat
Alan Coates, English Medieval Books: The Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal, Oxford Historical Monographs (Oxford, 1999). WorldCat
James Willoughby, “The Provision of Books in the English Secular College,” in The Late Medieval English College and Its Context, ed. Clive Burgess and Martin Heale (Woodbridge, 2008), pp. 154-79. WorldCat Nigel Ramsay, “‘The Manuscripts flew about like Butterflies’: The Break-Up of English Libraries in the Sixteenth Century,” in Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity, ed. James Raven (London, 2004), pp. 125-44. WorldCat
By Period:British Library Anglo-Saxon ManuscriptsBy Library:Durham Priory Library (Durham Cathedral Library)
Gaul and France:
Histories and Surveys:
Histoire des bibliothèques françaises, vol. 1: Les bibliothèques médiévales du VIe siècle au 1530, ed. André Vernet (Paris, 1989). WorldCat
Émile Lesne, Les livres,“scriptoria” et bibliothèques du commencement du VIIIe à la fin du XIe siècle, Histoire de la propriété ecclésiastique en France 4 (Lille, 1938). WorldCat
Collections of Essays:
Multiple Authors:
Livres et bibliothèques (XIIIe-XVe siècle), Cahiers de Fanjeaux 31 WorldCat Includes essays by Jean-Loup Lemaitre,Donatella Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda, and Jacques Verger on the catalogues and libraries of Languedoc, Provence, and Midi.
Single Authors:
Rosamond McKitterick, Books, Scribes, and Learning in the Frankish Kingdoms, 6th-9th Centuries, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot, 1994). WorldCat
By Library:
Multiple Libraries:
Octave Julien, Base de données des recueils médiévaux (France, Angleterre, XIIIe-XVe s.).
Arras: Richard Gameson, “The Earliest Books of Arras Cathedral,” Scriptorium 61 (2007), 233-25.
Clairvaux: Bibliothèque virtuelle de Clairvaux
Corbie: Klaus Zechiel-Eckes, Handschriften aus Corbie (bis 850). Eine Bestandsaufnahme
Fleury: Marco Mostert, The Library of Fleury: A Provisional List of Manuscripts (Hilversum, 1989). WorldCat
Mont-Saint-Michel: Bibliothèque virtuelle du Mont-Saint-Michel
Saint-Bertin:
Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque numérique: Manuscrits
Saint-Denis: Donatella Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda, La bibliothèque de l’Abbaye de Saint-Denis en France du IXe au XVIII siècle (Paris, 1985). WorldCat
Saint-Victor, Marseille: Donatella Nebbiai, La bibliothèque de l’Abbaye Saint-Victor de Marseille (XIe-XVe siècle (Paris, 2005). WorldCat
Germany
Introductions, Guides, and Handbooks:
Ladislaus Buzás, German Library History, 800-1945, trans. W. D. Boyd (Jefferson NC, 1986). WorldCat .
Ladislaus Buzás, Deutsche Bibliotheksgeschichte des Mittelalters, Elemente des Buch- und Bibliothekswesens 1 (Wiesbaden, 1975). WorldCat
Histories and Surveys:
Wolfgang Müller, “Dombibliotheken,” Historisches Lexikon Bayerns (2016).
Wolfgang Müller, art. “Bibliothekswesen (Spätmittelalter),” Historisches Lexikon Bayerns (2014).
Rodney Thomson, “The Place of Germany in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Books, Scriptoria and Libraries,” in Turning Over a New Leaf: Change and Development in the Medieval Manuscript, ed. Erik Kwakkel, Rosamond McKitterick, and Rodney Thomson, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture (Leiden, 2012), pp. 127-44. WorldCat
Studies:
Hermann Hauke, “‘Die Bedeutung der Säkularisation für die bayerischen Bibliotheken,” in Glanz und Ende der alten Klöster: Säkularisation im bayerischen Oberland 1803: Katalogbuch zur Ausstellung im Kloster Benediktbeuern, 7. Mai bis 20. Oktober 1991, ed. Josef Kirmeier and Manfred Treml, Veröffentlichungen zur Bayerischen Geschichte und Kultur 21 (Munich, 1991), pp. 87-97. WorldCat
By Library:
Corvey: Nova Corbeia. Die virtuelle Bibliothek Corvey
Heidelberg, Bibliotheca Palatina: Bibliotheca Palatina digital
Köln/Cologne, Diözesan- und Dombibliothek: CEEC: Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis
Lorsch:
Bibliotheca Laureshamensis – digital: Virtual Monastic Library of Lorsch
Michael Kautz, Bibliothek und Skriptorium des ehemahligen Klosters Lorsch: Katalog der erhaltenen Handschriften, 2 vols. (Wiesbaden, 2016). WorldCat
Bibliographie Literatur zum Kloster Lorsch
Regensburg, St. Emmeram: Handschriften aus dem ehemaligen Benediktinerkloster St. Emmeram in Regensburg
Reichenau and St. Gall: Carolingian Culture at Reichenau and St. Gall
St. Peter im Schwarzwald: Virtuelle Bibliothek St. Peter
Trier, St. Matthias: Virtuelles Skriptorium St. Matthias; See also Isabel Knoblich, Die Bibliothek des Klosters St. Maximin bei Trier bis zum 12. Jahrhundert (Trier, 1996).
Würzburg, Dombibliothek:
Bernhard Bischoff and Josef Hofmann, Libri Sancti Kyliani. Die Würzburger Schreibschule und die Dombibliothek im VIII. und IX. Jahrhundert, Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Bistums und Hochstifts Wùrzburg 6 (Würzburg, 1952). WorldCat
Hungary
Bibliographies:
Elod Nemerkenyi, “Libraries in Medieval Hungary,” Oxford Bibliographies.
Histories and Surveys:
Elod Nemerkenyi, “Cathedral Libraries in Medieval Hungary,” Library History 20/1 (2004). WorldCat
Iberia
Spain:
Bibliographies:
Alberto Ferreiro, The Visigoths in Gaul and Spain, A.D. 418-711: A Bibliography (Leiden, 1988). WorldCat . With A Supplemental Bibliography 1984-2003 (Leiden, 2006) WorldCat ; and online Supplements for 2004-2006; 2007-2009; 2010-2012.
Ainoa Castro, Littera Visigotica: Bibliography
Charles Faulhaber, Libros y bibliotecas en la España medieval: Una bibliografía de fuentes impresas, Research Bibliographies and Checklists 47 (London, 1987). WorldCat
Histories and Surveys:
Isabel Beceiro Pita, Libros, lectores y bibliotecas en la España medieval, Medievalia 2 (Murcia, 2007). WorldCat
Charles Faulhaber, “Las bibliotecas españoles medievales,” in Pensamiento medieval hispano. Homenaje a Horacio Santiago-Otero, 2 vols., ed. José María Soto Rábanos (Madrid, 1998), II, 785-800. WorldCat
Manuel C. Díaz y Díaz, Libros y librerías in la Rioja altomedieval, Biblioteca de temas riojanos 28 (Logroño, 1979). WorldCat
Manuel C. Díaz y Díaz, Manuscritos visigóticos del sur de la Península. Ensayo de distribución regional (Seville, 1995). WorldCat
Jocelyn N. Hillgarth, Readers and Books in Majorca 1229-1550, 2 vols., Documents, études et répertoires publiés par l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (Paris 1991). WorldCat
Jules Tailhan, “Appendice sur les bibliothèques espagnoles du haut moyen âge,” in Charles Cahier, Nouveaux mélanges d’archéologie, d’histoire et de littérature sur le Moyen Âge, vol. 4: Bibliothèques (Paris, 1887) pp. 217-346. WorldCat
Portugal:
Databases:
Luís Adão da Fonseca et al., Portuguese Medieval Libraries. Santa Cruz de Coimbra and Alcobaça
Studies:
Armando Norte, “Letrados e cultura letrada em Portugal (séculos XII-XIII)” (PhD diss., University of Lisbon, 2013). Includes chapters of monastic, cathedral, and private libraries.
Avelino de Jesus da Costa, A biblioteca e o tesouro da Sé de Coimbra nos séculos XI e XVI, 2nd ed., Boletim da Biblioteca da Universidade de Coimbra 38 (1983), 1-220. WorldCat
Saul António Gomes, “Três bibliotecas particulares na Coimbra de Trezentos, em torno das elites e das culturas urbanas medievais,” Revista de História das Ideias 24 (2003), 9-49. WorldCat
Ireland
Histories and Surveys:
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, vol. 1: To 1640, ed. Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Teresa Webber (Cambridge, 2006). WorldCat . Includes Pádraig P. Ó Néill, “Celtic Britain and Ireland in the Early Middle Ages,” pp. 69-90.
Studies:
Kathleen Hughes, “The Distribution of Irish Scriptoria and Centres of Learning from 730 to 1111,” in Studies in the Early British Church, ed. Nora K. Chadwick (Cambridge, 1958), pp. 243-72. WorldCat
Louis Gougaud, “The Remains of Ancient Irish Monastic Libraries,” in Féilsgribhinn Eóin Mhic Neill. Essays and Studies presented to Professor Eoin MacNeill (Dublin, 1940), pp. 319-34. WorldCat
Italy
Histories and Surveys:
Armando Petrucci, “Le bibliotheche antiche,” in Letteratura italiana, vol. 2: Produzione e consumo, ed. Alberto Asor Rosa (Turin, 1983), pp. 527-54. WorldCat
Donatella Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda, “Bibliothèques en Italie jusqu’au XIIIe siècle. État des sources et premières recherches,” in Libri, lettori e biblioteche dell’Italia medievale (secoli IX-XV). Fonti, testi, utilizzazione del libro. Atti della Tavola rotonda italo-francese (Roma 7-8 marzo 1997), ed. Giuseppe Lombardi and Donatella Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda, Documents, études et répertoires publiés par l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (Rome, 2001), pp. 7-129. WorldCat
Armando Petrucci, Writers and Readers in Medieval Italy: Studies in the History of Written Culture, trans. Charles M. Radding (New Haven CT, 1995). WorldCat
Studies:
Monte Amiata: Michael Gorman, “Manuscript Books at Monte Amiata in the Eleventh Century,” Scriptorium 56 (2002), 225-93.
Nonantola: Biblioteca Nonantolana Virtual
Rome: Marco Buonocore, “Le biblioteche di Roma antica nella Roma dei pontefici: modelli e innovazione,” in La biblioteca infinita. I luoghi del sapere nel mondo antico, ed. Roberto Meneghini and Rossella Rea (Milan, 2014), pp. 224-40. WorldCat
Low Countries
Repertories:
J. P. Gumbert, Illustrated Inventory of Medieval Manuscripts in Latin Script in the Netherlands (Hilversum, 2009-11). Introduction: Rules–Instructions (2009) WorldCat ; 1. Utrecht, Museum Catharijneconvent (2009) WorldCat ; 2.Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek (2011) WorldCat .
Emile Van Balberghe and Guy Zelis, “Medieval Libraries of Belgium: A List of Surviving Manuscripts,” Scriptorium 26 (1972), 348-57; 27 (1973), 102-06; 28 (1974), 103-09. WorldCat
Collections of Essays:
Contributions à l’histoire des bibliothèques et de la lecture aux Pays-Bas avant 1600, Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, numéro special 11 (Brussels, 1974). WorldCat
Scandinavia
(References supplied by Thomas N. Hall)
Histories and Surveys:
Emil Olmer, Boksamlingar på Island 1179-1490: Enligt diplom, Göteborgs Högskolas Årsskrift 8 (Göteborg, 1902). WorldCat Material collected from Diplomatarium Islandicum, Íslenzkt fornbréfasafn, 16 vols. (Copenhagen, 1857-1972). WorldCat
Gudbrandr Jónsson, “Íslenzk bókasöfn fyrir siðbyltinguna,” Årbok Landsbókasafns Íslands 1946-47, 3-4 (1948) 64-78. WorldCat
Tryggvi J. Oleson, “Book Collections of Mediaeval Icelandic Churches,” Speculum 32 (1957), 502-10. WorldCat
Tryggvi J. Oleson, “Book Collections of Icelandic Churches in the Fourteenth Century,” Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och biblioteksväsen 46 (1959), 111-23. WorldCat
Tryggvi J. Oleson, “Book Collections of Icelandic Churches in the Fifteenth Century,” Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och biblioteksväsen 47 (1960), 90-103. WorldCat
Ellen Jørgensen, “Fra svenske Biblioteker,” Kirkehistoriske Samlinger, 5. Reihe 5 (1909-11), 771-86. WorldCat
Ellen Jørgensen, “Les bibliothèques danoises au moyen âge,” Nordisk tidskrift för bok-och biblioteksväsen 2 (1915), 332-50. WorldCat
Ellen Jørgensen, “Studier over danske middelalderlige Bogsamlinger,” [Dansk] Historisk Tidsskrift ser. 8, Række 4 (1912-13), 1-67. WorldCat
Tönnes Kleberg, Medeltida Uppsalabibliotek. I. Biskop Siward av Uppsala och hans bibliotek, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, C. 15 (Uppsala, 1968). WorldCat
Switzerland
Bibliographie der Schweizergeschichte (1913- ). In the print volumes, see the sections “Bibliographie, Bibliotheks- und Archivkunde” and “Paläographie.” In the database (coverage from 1975), filter by “Libraries, journalism, and media” > “Manuscripts and printed works.”
e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
By Religious Order
François Dolbeau, “Quelques aspects des relations entre bibliothèques d’établissements religieux (XIIe-XVe siècles),” in Naissance et fonctionnement des réseaux monastiques et canoniaux. Actes du premier colloque international du CERCOM, Saint-Étienne, 16-18 septembre 1985, ed. Nicole Bouter (Saint-Étienne, 1991), pp. 495-509. WorldCat
Cistercians, Gilbertines, Premonstratensians
Thomas Falmagne, “Le réseau des bibliothèques cisterciennes aux XIIe et XIIIe siècle: perspectives de recherche,” in Unanimité et diversité cisterciennes: filiations – réseaux – relectures du XIIe au XVIIe siècle. Actes du quatrième colloque international du CERCOR, Dijon, 23-25 septembre 1998 (Saint-Étienne, 2000), pp. 195-22. WorldCat
Les cisterciens et la transmission des textes (XIIe-XVIIIe siècles), ed. Thomas Falmagne, Dominique Stutzmann, and Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk, Bibliothèque d’histoire culturelle du Moyen Âge 18 (Turnhout, 2018). WorldCat
Thomas Falmagne, with Pierre Gandil et Dominique Stutzmann, Les cisterciens et leurs bibliothèques, Histoires de livres 5 (Troyes, 2012). WorldCat
Anne Bondéelle-Souchier, Bibliothèques cisterciennes de la France médiévale. Répertoiredes abbayes d’hommes, Documents, études et répertoires publiés par l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (Paris, 1991). WorldCat
David N. Bell, An Index of Authors and Works in Cistercian Libraries in Great Britain, Cistercian Studies 130 (Kalamazoo MI, 1992). WorldCat
Ana Suárez González, “Cistercian Scriptoria in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: A Starting Point,” in Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia: A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe, ed. James D’Emilio, The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 58 (Leiden, 2015), pp. 765-811. WorldCat
Mendicant Orders
Censimento Internazionale Manoscritti Francescani
Libri, biblioteche e letture dei frati mendicanti (secoli XIII-XIV): Atti del XXXII Convegno internazionale, Assisi, 7-9 ottobre 2004 (Spoleto, 2005). WorldCat . See esp. Donatella Frioli, “Gli inventari delle Biblioteche degli Ordini mendicanti,” pp. 301-33.
Kenneth William Humphreys, “Les blbliothèques des ordres mendiants,” in Histoire des bibliothèques françaises, vol. 1: Les bibliothèques médiévales du VIe siècle au 1530, ed. André Vernet (Paris, 1989), pp. 125-45. WorldCat
Kenneth William Humphreys, The Book Provisions of the Mediaeval Friars, 1215-1400, Studies in the History of Libraries and Librarianship 1 (Amsterdam, 1964). WorldCat
Monastic Orders
Bibliographies:
Klaus Graf, Virtuelle Rekonstruktion historischer Klosterbibliotheken mit Digitalisaten
Francis Wormald, ‘‘The Monastic Library,’’ in The Year 1200 II: A Background Survey, ed. Florens Deuchler , The Cloisters Studies in Medieval Art 2 (New York, 1970), pp. 169-74. WorldCat
David Bell, “Monastic Libraries: 1400–1557,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 3: 1400-1557, ed. Lotte Hellinga and J. B. Trapp (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 229-54. WorldCat
A. I. Doyle, ‘‘Book Production by the Monastic Orders in England (c. 1375-1530): Assessing the Evidence,’’ in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence. Proceedings of the Second Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1988, ed. Linda L. Brownrigg (Los Altos Hills CA, 1990), pp. 1-19. WorldCat
Papal Libraries (Vatican and Avignon)
For inventories, see under sect. III. Papal Libraries (Vatican and Avignon)
Maria Alessandra Bilotta, I libri dei papi: la Curia, il Laterano e la produzione manoscritta ad uso del papato nel Medioevo (secoli VI-XIII), Studi e testi 465 (Vatican City, 2011). WorldCat Table of Contents.
Francisco Ehrle, Historia bibliothecae romanorum pontificum tum Bonifatianae tum Avenionensis enarrata et antiquis earum indicibus aliisque documentis illustrata, vol. 1 (Rome, 1890). WorldCat
Marie-Henriette Jullien-de-Pommerol, “Les papes d’Avignon et leurs manuscrits,” in Livres et bibliothèques (XIIIe-XVe siècle), Cahiers de Fanjeaux 31, pp. 133-56. WorldCat
Library Classification
Alain Besson, Medieval Classification and Cataloguing: Classification Practices and Cataloguing Methods in France from the 12th to 15th Centuries, Library History Series 4 (Biggleswade, Beds., 1980). WorldCat Includes sections on “Classification schemes,” “Catalogues and cataloguing methods,” and “Location devices.”
Donatella Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda, “Classifications et classements,” in Histoire des bibliothèques françaises: Les biblothèques médiévales du VIe siècle au 1530, ed. André Vernet (Paris, 1988), pp. 373-93. WorldCat
Dorothy May Norris, A History of Cataloguing and Cataloguing Methods, 1100-1850 (London, 1939). WorldCat Outlines classification schemes of various medieval libraries, mainly British.
Scriptoria
Bibliographies
Cumulative
Boyle, Medieval Latin Palaeography, Index, s.v. “scriptoria.”
Serial
Medioevo Latino. See the section “Bibliotheche Medievali.”
Databases
Mirabile: DB Mediolatino. Search “scrittorio.”
Introductions, Guides, and Handbooks
Alison Stones, “Scriptorium: The Term and Its History,” Perspective 1 (2014), 113-20.
Ralf M. W. Stammberger, Scriptor und Scriptorium: Das Buch im Spiegel mittelalterlicher Handschriften, Lebensbilder des Mittelalters 3 (Graz, 2003). WorldCat
Rodney Thomson, “Scribes and Scriptoria,” in The European Book in the Twelfth Century, ed. Erik Kwakkel and Rodney Thomson, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 101 (Cambridge, 2018), pp. 68-84. WorldCat
Collections of Essays
Scriptorium. Wesen – Funktion – Eigenheiten. Comité international de paléographie latine, XVIII. Kolloquium, St. Gallen 11.-14. September 2013, ed. Andreas Nievergelt et al., Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der Mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz (Munich, 2015). WorldCat Table of Contents.
By Period
Earlier Latin Manuscripts: Collections. Database from Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores, includes lists of manuscripts by origin and provenance.
Les Temps mérovingiens (Gallica)
Manuscrits carolingiens (Gallica). Can be browsed by author, title, genre, script, decoration, and date.
Bernhard Bischoff, Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne, trans. Michael Gorman, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology (Cambridge, 1994). WorldCat . Translations of selected essays from Bischoff, Mittelalterliche Studien.
Rosamond McKitterick, “Script and Book Production,” in Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation, ed. McKitterick (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 221-47, with bibliography at 245-47. WorldCat
Rosamond McKitterick, The Frankish Kings and Culture in the Early Middle Ages, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot, 1995). WorldCat
Rosamond McKitterick, “Manuscripts and Scriptoria in the Reign of Charles the Bald, 840-877,” in Giovanni Scoto nel suo tempo. L’organizzazione del sapere in età carolingia. Atti del XXIV Convegno Storico Internazionale, Todi, 11-14 ottobre 1987, ed. Enrico Menestò and Claudio Leonardi (Spoleto, 1989), pp. 200-33. WorldCat
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), 4 vols. (Wiesbaden, 1998-2017). WorldCat See the “Register der Schreiborte und Schriftprovinzen,” IV, 189-282.
Hartmut Hoffmann, Schreibschulen und Buchmalerei: Handschriften und Texte des 9.-11. Jahrhunderts, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Schriften 65 (Hannover, 2013). WorldCat
By Region/Country
Austria
Bernhard Bischoff, Die südostdeutschen Schreibschulen und Bibliotheken der Karolingerzeit, vol. 2: Die vorwiegend österreichischen Diözesen (Wiesbaden, 1980). WorldCat
scriptoria.at: Projekt “Bibliothek und Skriptorium des Stiftes Heiligenkreuz”. See “MSS” for manuscripts of Austrian origin.
Britain
Richard Gameson, “Anglo-Saxon Scribes and Scriptoria,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 1: c. 400-1100, ed. Gameson (Cambridge, 2011), pp. 94-120. WorldCat
Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, The Scriptorium of Bury St. Edmunds in the Twelfth Century (New York, 1986). WorldCat
Gaul and France
Rosamond McKitterick, “The Scriptoria of Merovingian Gaul: A Survey of the Evidence,” in McKitterick, Books, Scribes and Learning in the Frankish Kingdoms, 6th-9th Centuries, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot, 1994), ch. 1. WorldCat
Jean Vezin, “Les scriptoria de Neustrie, 650-850,” in La Neustria. Les pays au nord de la Loire de 650 à 850, 2 vols., ed. Hartmut Atsma, Beihefte der Francia 16 (Sigmaringen, 1989), II, 307-18. WorldCat
Babette Tewes, Die Handschriften der Schule von Luxeuil: Kunst und Ikonographie eines frühmittelalterlichen Skriptoriums, Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien 22 (Wiesbaden, 2011). WorldCat With Bibliography at pp. 178-85.
David Ganz, Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance, Beihefte der Francia 20 (Sigmaringen, 1990). WorldCat
John J. Contreni, The Cathedral School of Laon from 850 to 930. Its Manuscripts and Masters, Münchener Beiträge zur Mediävistik und Renaissance-Forschung 29 (Munich, 1978). WorldCat
Edward Kennard Rand, A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours, 2 vols. (Cambridge MA, 1929). WorldCat Vol. 1.
Jean Vezin, “Les relations entre Saint-Denis et d’autres scriptoria pendant le haut Moyen Âge,” in The Role of the Book in Medieval Culture. Proceedings of the Oxford International Symposium 26 September-1 October, 1982, 2 vols., ed. Peter Ganz, Bibliologia 3-4 (Turnhout, 1986), I, 17-39. WorldCat
Germany
Bernhard Bischoff, Die südostdeutschen Schreibschulen und Bibliotheken der Karolingerzeit. vol. 1: Die bayerischen Diözesen, 3rd ed. (Wiesbaden, 1974). WorldCat
Hartmut Hoffmann, Schreibschulen des 10. und des 11. Jahrhunderts im Südwesten des Deutschen Reiches, 2 vols., MGH Schriften 53/1-2 (Hannover, 2004).
Bernhard Bischoff, Die Abtei Lorsch im Spiegel ihrer Handschriften, 2nd ed., Geschichtsblätter Kreis Bergstrasse, Sonderband 10 (Lorsch, 1989). WorldCat
Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Scriptoria in Medieval Saxony: St. Pancras in Hamersleben (Wiesbaden, 2004). WorldCat
Alison I. Beach, Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 10 (Cambridge, 2004). WorldCat
Cynthia J. Cyrus, The Scribes for Women’s Convents in Late Medieval Germany (Toronto, 2009). WorldCat
Iberia
José Antonio Fernández Flórez, “Escribir en los monasterios altomedievales del Occidente peninsular (siglos VIII-XII),” in Lugares de escritura: el monasterio, ed. Ramón Baldaquí Escadell (Alicante, 2016), pp. 17-68. WorldCat
C. Miguel Vivancos, “Circulación de manuscritos en la Edad Media: el caso de San Millán y Silos,” in Il monachesimo tra eredità e aperture. Atti del simposio “Testi e temi nella tradizione del monachesimo cristiano” per il 50o anniversario dell’Istituto monastico di Sant’Anselmo, Roma, 28 maggio-10 giugno 2002, ed. Maciej Bielawski and Daniël Homergen, Studia Anselmiana 140 (Rome, 2004), pp. 785-802. WorldCat
António Cruz, Santa Cruz de Coimbra na Cultura portuguesa da Idade Média, vol. 1: Observações sobre o scriptorium e os estudos claustrais (Porto, 1964). WorldCat
Italy
Francis Newton, The Scriptorium and Library at Monte Cassino, 1058-1105, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 7 (Cambridge, 1999). WorldCat
Luxembourg (Echternach)
Rosamond McKitterick, “Le Scriptorium d’Echternach aux huitième et neuvième siècles,” in L’évangélisation des régions entre Meuse et Moselle et la fondation de l’abbaye d’Echternach, Ve-IXe siècle. Actes des 10es Journées Lotharingiennes 28-30 octobre 1998, Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg, ed. Michel Polfer (Luxembourg, 2000), pp. 499-522. WorldCat
Switzerland
Albert Bruckner, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica: Denkmäler Schweizerischer Schreibkunst des Mittelalters, 14 vols. (Geneva, 1935-78). WorldCat
Schrift, Schriftgebrauch und Textsorten im frühmittelalterlichen Churrätien: Vorträge des internationalen Kolloquiums vom 18. bis 20. Mai 2006 im Rätischen Museum in Chur, ed. Heidi Eisenhut (Basel, 2008). WorldCat
Sankt Gallen:Codices Electronici Sangallensis
By Religious Order
Monastic
Giorgio Cencetti, “Scriptoria e scritture nel monachesimo benedettino,” in Il monachesimo nell’alto medioevo e la formazione della civiltà occidentale, ed. Giuseppe Ermini, Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull’alto Medioevo 4 (Spoleto, 1957), pp. 189-20. WorldCat
Monique-Cécile Garand, “Manuscrits monastiques et scriptoria aux XIe et XIIe siècles,” Codicologica 3 (1980), 9-33. WorldCat
Nun’s Scriptoria
Universities
For general bibliography on medieval universities, see the separate bibliography on Medieval History and Historical Sources. The focus here is on book university book production generally.
Bibliographies
Boyle, Medieval Latin Palaeography, pp. 267-69.
Collections of Essays
La production de livre universitaire au moyen âge: Exemplars et pecia. Actes du symposium tenu au Collegio San Bonaventura de Grottaferrata en mai 1983, ed. Louis Jacques Bataillon, Bertrand G. Guyot, and Richard H. Rouse(Paris, 1991). WorldCat
Studies
Jean Destrez, La pecia dans les manuscrits universitaires du XIIIe et du XIVe siècle (Paris, 1935). WorldCat
Graham Pollard, “The Pecia System in the Medieval Universities,” in Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts, and Libraries: Essays presented to N. R. Ker, ed. Malcolm B. Parkes and Andrew G. Watson (London, 1978), pp. 145-61. WorldCat
Elisabeth Leedham-Green, “University Libraries and Book-sellers,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 3: 1400-1557, ed. Lotte Hellinga and J. B. Trapp (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 316-53. WorldCat
Graham Pollard, “The University and the Book Trade in Mediaeval Oxford,” in Beiträge zum Berufsbewusstsein des mittelalterlichen Menschen, ed. Paul Wilpert and Willehad Eckert, Miscellanea Mediaevalia 3 (Berlin, 1964), pp. 336-44. WorldCat
Richard H. Rouse and Mary Rouse, “The Commercial Production of Manuscript Books in Late-thirteenth-century and Early-fourteenth-century Paris,” in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence. Proceedings of the Second Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1988, ed. Linda L. Brownrigg (Los Altos Hills CA, 1990), pp. 103-15. WorldCat
Richard H. Rouse, “The Early Library of the Sorbonne,” Scriptorium 21 (1967), 42-71.
Book Trade
Repertories
C. Paul Christianson, A Directory of London Stationers and Book Artisans, 1300-1500 (New York, 1990). WorldCat
Collections of Essays
Patrons, Authors and Workshops: Books and Book Production in Paris Around 1400, ed. Godfried Croenen and Peter F. Ainsworth, Synthema 4 (Louvain, 2006). WorldCat Table of Contents.
Studies
M. A. Michael, “Urban Production of Manuscript Books and the Role of the University Towns,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 2: 1100-1400, ed. Nigel Morgan and Rodney Thomson (Cambridge, 2008), pp. 168-94. WorldCat
Britain:
C. Paul Christianson, Memorials of the Book Trade in Medieval London: The Archives of Old London Bridge, Manuscript Studies 3 (Cambridge, 1987). WorldCat
C. Paul Christianson, “The Rise of London’s Book-Trade,’’ in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 3: 1400-1557, ed. Lotte Hellinga and J. B. Trapp (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 128-47. WorldCat
C. Paul Christianson, ‘‘Evidence for the Study of London’s Late Medieval Manuscript-Book Trade,’’ in Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375-1475, ed. Jeremy Griffiths and Derek A. Pearsall, Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History (Cambridge, 1989), pp. 87-108. WorldCat
A. I. Doyle, ‘‘The English Provincial Book Trade before Printing,’’ in Six Centuries of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain, ed. Peter C. G. Isaac (Winchester, 1990), pp. 13-29 WorldCat
Graham Pollard, “The Company of Stationers before 1557,” The Library, 4th ser. 18 (1937), 1-38.
Brittany:
France:
Christopher de Hamel, Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade (Woodbridge, 1987). WorldCat
Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse, Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500, 2 vols. (Turnhout, 2000). WorldCat
Private Libraries
Patricia Stirnemann, “Les Bibliothèques princières et privées aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles,” in Histoire des bibliothèques françaises, vol. 1: Les bibliothèques médiévales du VIe siècle au 1530, ed. André Vernet (Paris, 1989), pp. 172-91. WorldCat
Patricia Danz-Stirnemann, “Quelques bibliothèques princières et la production hors scriptorium au XIIe siècle,” Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, n.s. 17-18A (1981-82), 7-38. WorldCat
Geneviève Hasenohr, “L’essor des bibliothèques privées aux XIVe et XVe siècles,” in Histoire des bibliothèques françaises, vol. 1: Les bibliothèques médiévales du VIe siècle au 1530, ed. André Vernet (Paris, 1989), pp. 215-63. WorldCat
Susan Hagen Cavanaugh, “A Study of Books Privately Owned in England 1300-1450,” 2 vols. (unpubl. PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1980). WorldCat
By Library:
Aragonese Kings of Naples:
Europeana Regia, a Digital Collaborative Library of Royal Library Collections
Dukes of Milan:
Élisabeth Pellegrin, La bibliothèque des Visconti et des Sforza, ducs de Milan, au XVe siècle, Publications de l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes 5 (Paris, 1955). WorldCat With a Supplément, ed. Tammaro De Marinis (Florence, 1969). WorldCat
Charles V:
La Librairie de Charles V, ed. François Avril and Jean Lafaurie (Paris, 1968). WorldCat
Léopold Delisle, Recherches sur la librairie de Charles V, roi de France, 1337-1380 (Paris, 1907). WorldCat
Europeana Regia, a Digital Collaborative Library of Royal Library Collections
Matthias Hunyadi (Corvinus):
Bibliotheca Corvina Virtualis. Includes a Bibliography.
De Bibliotheca Corviniana. Mathias Corvin, les bibliothèques princières et la genèse de l’État moderne, ed. Jean-François Maillard, István Monok, and Donatella Nebbiai (Budapest, 2009). WorldCat
II. Medieval Library Catalogues, Booklists, and Book Inventories
Bibliographies
Cumulative
Boyle, Medieval Latin Palaeography, pp. 202-14.
François Dolbeau and Pierre Petitmengin, Indices Librorum: Catalogues anciens et modernes de manuscrits médiévaux en écriture latine, 2 vols., Bibliothèque de l’eecole Normale Supérieure, Guides et inventaires bibliographiques 3 (Paris, 1987-1995). WorldCat The online texts: Vol. I: (1977/1983); Vol. II: (1984-1990) et compléments pour 1977-1983 can be browsed and searched for a particular library collection or a particular author or “theme” (mainly genres of texts). See the sections “Collections actuelles” and “Collections dispersés.” Includes indices of authors, owners and collectors, and places, as well as a chronological index of medieval inventories.
Klaus Graf, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge (Archivalia)
Serial
Medioevo Latino. See the section “Biblioteche Medievali.”
Bibliographie der Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte (1982-2004). WorldCat See the section “Bibliotheken.”
Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique (Louvain, 1900- ). WorldCat See section 2A of the bibliography (from 1974). Searchable for 1973-2014 on the journal’s Brepols website; as of 2014 incorporated into the database Index Religiosus.
Bulletin d’histoire bénédictine. WorldCat Bibliographical supplement to the journal Revue Bénédictine. WorldCat
Databases
Mirabile: DB Mediolatino. In the search field “Biblioteche – Dati generali – Tipologia degli inventari,” search “Catalogo,” “Inventario,” “Lista di libri …” [multiple subheadings] and “Lista di mss.” with whatever chronological parameters (“Cronologia degli inventari”) are relevant. One can also search “Cataloghi di manoscritti.”
International Medieval Bibliography. In Advanced Search – Thematic, searching “Books – catalogues” will return hits on medieval book catalogues but also modern ones; searching “books inventories” in free search will bring up others.
Scriptorium (1946/47- ). WorldCat See the index to the annual “Bulletin codicologique” s.v. “Catalogues.” The on-line database can be searched for particular manuscripts. Most years up to 2000 are available full-text at Persée.
Index Religiosus. In Free search choose “Libraries” with sub-category “Catalogues.”
Individual Scholars
Surveys of Scholarship
André Vernet, “Etudes et travaux sur les bibliothèques médiévales, 1937-1947,” Revue d’histoire de l’église de France34 (1948), 63-94 WorldCat ; repr. in Vernet, Etudes médiévales (Paris, 1981), pp. 457-88. WorldCat
Repertories
RICABIM: Repertorio di inventari, di cataloghi e di liste di manoscritti appartenuti a biblioteche medievali (Occidente latino, secoli VIII-XV) (Florence, 2009- ). Volumes to date: I: Toscana; II/1: Lombardia; II/2. Piemonte, Valle d’Aosta, Liguria con i documenti della Contea e del Ducato di Savoia; III:Umbria, Marche, Abruzzo, Molise.
Albert Derolez, Les catalogues de bibliothèques, Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental 31 (Turnhout, 1979). WorldCat
Theodor Gottlieb, Über mittelalterliche Bibliotheken (Leipzig, 1890). WorldCat Dated, but still the most comprehensive listing of medieval library catalogues and inventories. Supplemented by Gabriel Meier in Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen 20 (1903), 16-32.
Histories and Surveys
Donatella Nebbiai, I documenti per la storia delle biblioteche medievali (secoli IX-XV), Materiali e ricerche, n.s. 15 (Rome, 1992). WorldCat Bibliography at pp. 15-22.
Donatella Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda, “Les inventaires des bibliothèques médiévales,” in Le livre au Moyen Age, ed. Jean Glénisson (Paris, 1988), pp. 88-92. WorldCat
Christopher de Hamel, “Medieval Library Catalogues,” in Pioneers in Bibliography, ed. Robin Myers and Michael Harris (Winchester, 1988), pp. 11-23. WorldCat
Armando Petrucci, La descrizione del manoscritto: Storia, problemi, modelli, 2nd ed., Beni culturali 24 (Rome, 2001). WorldCat
Otto Mazal, The Keeper of Manuscripts, Bibliologia, Elementa ad librorum studia pertinentia 11 (Turnhout, 1992). WorldCat
Introductions, Guides, and Handbooks
Stage d’initiation au manuscrit médiéval de l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (2015)
Laura Nichols Braswell, Western Manuscripts from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance: A Handbook, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 139 (New York, 1981), pp. 73-87. WorldCat
Collections of Essays
Zenit et Nadir 2. I manoscritti dell’area del Mediterraneo: la catalogazione come base della ricerca. Atti del Seminario internazionale, Montepulciano, 6-8 Luglio 2007, ed. Benedetta Cenni et al. (Montepulciano, 2007). WorldCat
Studies
Ralph Hanna, “Manuscript Catalogues and Book History,” The Library 18 (2017), 45-61.
Jenny Weston, “Taking Stock: Booklists as Evidence of Medieval Reading Culture,” in Fruits of Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, ed. Rolf Bremmer and Kees Dekker, Mediaevalia Groningana, n.s. 9 (Leuven, 2016), pp. 75-92. WorldCat
Donatella Frioli, “Gli inventari medievali di libri come riflesso degli interessi di lettura. Scandagli sparsi,” in Scrivere e leggere nell’alto Medioevo. Settimana di studio della Fondazione CISAM (Spoleto, 28 aprile-4 maggio 2011), 2 vols., Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo 59 (Spoleto, 2012), II, 855-94. WorldCat
Monique Peyrafort-Huin, “L’exploitation des inventaires anciens pour la reconstruction des bibliothèques médiévales: l’exemple de Pontigny,” in Sources for the History of Medieval Books and Libraries, ed. Rita Schlusemann, Joseph M. M. Hermans, and Margriet Hoogvliet (Groningen, 1999), pp. 163-82. WorldCat
F. Bartolini, “I cataloghi delle biblioteche medievali,” in Relazioni del X Congresso internazionale di scienze storiche, vol. 1: Metodologia, problemi generali. Scienze ausiliarie della storia (Florence, 1955), I, 429-34. WorldCat
Joseph De Ghellinck, “En marge des catalogues des bibliothèques médiévales,” in Miscellanea Francesco Ehrle, 6 vols., Studi e testi 37-42 (Rome, 1942), V, 331-63. WorldCat
Rosamond McKitterick, The Carolingians and the Written Word (Cambridge, 1989). WorldCat Includes chapter on “The Organization of Knowledge,” dealing with early medieval library catalogues.
Martin Irvine, The Making of Textual Culture: ‘Grammatica’ and Literary Theory 350-1100, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 19 (Cambridge, 1994), esp. pp. 334-44. WorldCat
Thomas Falmagne and Alessandra Sorbello Staub, “Bibliotheken und Kataloge im 12. Jahrhundert und ihre Quellen,” in Geschichte der Buchkultur 4/1: Romanik, ed. Andreas Fingernagel (Graz, 2007), pp. 111-44. WorldCat
James Stuart Beddie, “Libraries in the Twelfth Century: Their Catalogues and Contents,” in Anniversary Essays in Mediaeval History by Students of Charles Homer Haskins , ed. C. H. Taylor (1929; rpt. Freeport, NY, 1967), pp. 1-35.WorldCat
Mary A. Rouse and Richard H. Rouse, “The Development of Resarch Tools in the Thirteenth Century,” in Rouse and Rouse, Authentic Witnesses: Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts (Notre Dame, 1991), pp. 221-55. WorldCat
On the vocabulary of medieval catalogues and inventories:
Dorothy May Norris, A History of Cataloguing and Cataloguing Methods, 1100-1850 (London, 1939). WorldCat See pp. 229ff. for a glossary of Latin terms frequently encountered in medieval catalogues.
Jacques Monfrin, “Le catalogue et l’inventaire (Résumé),” in Vocabulaire du livre et de l’écriture au moyen âge, ed. Olga Weijers (Turnhout, 1989), p. 135. WorldCat .
Martin Morard, Terminologie ancienne du livre (Libraria)
Editions
Bibliography
Éditions d’inventaires anciens de bibliothèques médiévales (Libraria)
Collective Editions
Thecae. Corpus d’inventaires anciens de livres manuscrits et imprimés. “Dédiée à l’histoire de la transmission des textes et des livres, [la collection] réunit deux séries complémentaires: Thecae-Textes qui accueille des éditions d’inventaires médiévaux et modernes, du VIIIe au XVIIIe siècle, et Thecae-Instrumenta qui publie des répertoires de sources sur le principe des Bibliothèques de manuscrits médiévaux en France paru en 1987 aux éditions du CNRS.” To date includes the early Modern inventories “Inventaires mauristes” and “Inventaire Mazarin” (see the searchable Corpus). See also the “Bibliographie sommaire sur Bernard de Montfaucon, la Bibliotheca bibliothecarum et les inventaires mauristes de bibliothèques.”
Gustav Becker, Catalogi bibliothecarum antiqui (Bonn, 1885). Still the most comprehensive collection. WorldCat
Bernhard Bischoff, Mittelalterliche Schatzverzeichnisse, vol. 1: Von der Zeit Karls des Großen bis zur Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts, Veröffentlichungen des Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte in München 4 (Munich, 1967). WorldCat For inventories of property, which often include references to books.
Ferdinand de Mély and Edmund Bishop, Bibliographie générale des inventaires imprimés, 3 vols. (Paris 1892-1895). 1: France & Angleterre; 2: [Allemagne, Danemark, Ecosse, Espagne, Hollande, Hongrie, Islande, Italie, Orient, Pologne, Suède et Norvège, Suisse: supplément: France, Angleterre et Ecosse]; 3: Tables. Inventories are listed chronologically within each region. Excludes book inventories per se, but references books when they are included in inventories of treasury. In the index volume see “Livres” and “Livres d’affaires,” or search the pdfs for “livres.”
By Region/Country
Austria
Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Österreichs, 5 vols. (Vienna, 1915-71). WorldCat . 1: Niederösterreich (1915); Nachtrag. Bücherverzeichnisse in Korneuburger, Tullner und Wiener. Neustadter Testamenten; 2: Register (1929); 3: Steiermark (1961); 4: Salzburg (1966); 5: Oberösterreich (1971).
Britain
Richard Sharpe, “Library Catalogues and Indexes,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 2: 1100-1400, ed. Nigel Morgan and Rodney Thomson (Cambridge, 2008), pp. 195-218. WorldCat
Michael Lapidge, “Surviving Booklists from Anglo-Saxon England,” in Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. Michael Lapidge and Helmut Gneuss (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 33-89. WorldCat Repr. in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, ed. Mary P. Richards, Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England (New York, 1994), pp. 87-167. WorldCat
Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library (Oxford, 2005). WorldCat
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain. Database combining Ker’s Medieval Libraries of Great Britain and the Corpus of Medieval British Library Catalogues (next two items).
N. R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd ed. (London, 1964) WorldCat . With a Supplement to the Second Edition, ed. Andrew G. Watson (London, 1987). WorldCat
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues (London, 1990- ). Volumes to date: 1: The Friars’ Libraries, ed. K. W. Humphreys (1990), WorldCat ; 2: Registrum Anglie de libris doctorum et auctorum ueterum (1991), ed. R. A. B. Mynors, R. H. Rouse and M. A. Rouse (1991), WorldCat ; 3: The Libraries of the Cistercians, Gilbertines and Premonstratensians, ed. D. N. Bell (1992), WorldCat ; 4: English Benedictine Libraries. The Shorter Catalogues, ed. Richard Sharpe et al. (1996), WorldCat ; 5: Dover Priory, ed. William P. Stoneman (1999), WorldCat ; 6: The Libraries of the Augustinian Canons, ed. T. Webber and A. G. Watson WorldCat ; 7: The Libraries of Henry VIII, ed. J. P. Carley (2000) WorldCat ; 9: Syon Abbey, ed. Vincent Gillespie WorldCat ; 10: The University and College Libraries of Cambridge, ed. Peter D. Clarke WorldCat ; 11: Henry of Kirkestede, Catalogus de libris autenticis et apocrifis, WorldCat ; 12: Scottish Libraries, ed. John Higgit (2006); 13: The Libraries of Collegiate Churches, 2 vols., ed. James M. W. Willoughby. See also Richard Sharpe‘s cumulative List of Identifications.
Ivor Atkins and N. R. Ker, Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum bibliothecae Wigorniensis, made in 1622-1623, by Patrick Young, Librarian to King James I (Cambridge, 1944). WorldCat
Index Britanniae Scriptorum: John Bale’s Index of British and Other Writers, ed. Reginald Lane Poole and Mary Bateson; repr. with an introduction by Caroline Brett and James P. Carley (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1990). WorldCat
Cambridge University Library, Early Catalogues of Manuscripts up to c. 1600
Gauls and France
Repertories:
A.-M. Genevois et al., Bibliothèques de manuscrits médiévaux en France. Relevé des inventaires du VIIIe au XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1987). WorldCat . Exhaustive and well-indexed listing of surviving catalogues and inventories.
Studies:
Vers un corpus des inventaires médiévaux de bibliothèques françaises
Monique Peyrafort-Huin and Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk, “Les inventaires anciens de bibliothèques médiévales françaises. Bilan des travaux et perspectives,” in L’historien face au manuscrit: Du parchemin à la bibliothèque numérique, ed. Fabienne Henryot (Louvain-la-Neuve, 2012), pp. 149-166. WorldCat
Léopold Delisle, Le Cabinet des manuscrits de la bibliothèque impériale: étude de la formation de ce dépôt comprenant les éléments d’une histoire de la calligraphie, de la miniature, de la reliure, et du commerce des livres à Paris avant l’invention de l’imprimerie, 4 vols. (Paris, 1866-81). WorldCat
Henri Omont, Anciens inventaires et catalogues de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 5 vols. (Paris, 1908-1921). WorldCat Vol. 1.
Geneviève Nortier, Les bibliothèques médiévales des abbayes bénédictines de Normandie. Fecamp, Le Bec, Le Mont Saint-Michel, Saint-Évroul, Lyre, Jumièges, Saint-Wandrille, Saint-Ouen, 2nd ed., Bibliothèque d’histoire et d’archéologie chrétiennes 9 (Paris, 1971). WorldCat
Gilbert Ouy, Les manuscrits de l’abbaye de Saint-Victor: Catalogue établi sur la base du répertoire de Claude de Grandrue (1514), 1: Introduction–concordances–index; 2: Texte , Bibliotheca Victorina 10 (Turnhout, 1999). WorldCat
Germany and Switzerland
Comprehensive:
Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz (Munich, 1918- ). WorldCat 1. Die Bistümer Konstanz und Chur (1918); 2.Bistum Mainz. Erfurt (1928); 3/1.Bistum Augsburg (1932); 3/2. Bistum Eichstätt; (1933); 3/3. Bistum Bamberg (1939); 3/4. Register(1962); 4/1. Bistümer Passau und Regensburg (1977); 4/2. Bistümer Freising und Würzburg (1979); 4/3. Register (2009).
Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, 2 vols. in 3, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Ergänzungsband 1 (Munich, 1989). WorldCat Inventory of surviving manuscripts that can be assigned to a particular library. See following item.
Sigrid Krämer, Bibliothecae codicum medii aevi: Datenbank mittelalterlicher Bibliotheken und ihrer Handschriften in Deutschland und anderen Ländern Europas (2010). Expanded version of Krämer, Handschriftenerbe. Requires license.
Tilo Brandis and Ingo Nöther, Handbuch der Handschriftenbestände in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, vol. 1: Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Berlin (West), Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein (Wiesbaden, 1992- ). WorldCat
Studies:
Bettina Wagner, “Cataloguing of Medieval Manuscripts in German Libraries: The Role of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as a Funding Agency,” RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 5 (2004), 38-51. WorldCat
Regional:
Handschriftencensus Rheinland: Erfassung mittelalterlicher Handschriften im rheinischen Landesteil von Nordrhein-Westfalen mit einem Inventar, 3 vols., ed. Gunter Gattermann and Heinz Finger et al., Schriften der Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek Dusseldorf 18 (Wiesbaden, 1993). WorldCat Project website: Handschriftencensus Rheinland-Pfalz. Census includes Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Bernkastel-Kues, Koblenz, Mainz, Maria Laach, Marienstatt, Speyer, Treis-Karden, Trier, Worms, Zweibrücken.
Handschriftencensus der kleineren Sammlungen in den östlichen Bundesländern Deutschlands Bestandsaufnahme der ehemaligen Arbeitsstelle “Zentralinventar mittelalterlichen Handschriften bis 1500 in den Sammlungen der DDR” (ZIH), ed. Renate Schipcke and Kurt Heydeck (Wiesbaden, 2000). WorldCat
By Period:
Rodney Thomson, “Appendix: Twelfth-Century Booklists from German Religious Communities,” in Thomson, “The Place of Germany in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Books, Scriptoria and Libraries,” in Turning Over a New Leaf: Change and Development in the Medieval Manuscript, ed. Erik Kwakkel, Rosamond McKitterick, and Rodney Thomson, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture (Leiden, 2012), pp. 141-44. WorldCat
By Library:
Fulda:
Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse des Klosters Fulda und andere Beiträge zur Geschichte der Bibliothek des Klosters Fulda im Mittelalter, ed. Gangolf Schrimpf with Josef Leinweber and Thomas Martin, Fuldaer Studien, Schriftenreihe der Theologischen Fakultät 4 (Frankfurt am Main, 1992). WorldCat
Lorsch:
Angelika Häse, Mittelalterliche Bücherverzeichnisse aus Kloster Lorsch: Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar, Beiträge zum Buch- und Bibliothekswesen 42 (Wiesbaden, 2002). WorldCat
St. Gall and Reichenau:
Johannes Duft, “Die Handschriften-Katalogisierung in der Stiftsbibliothek St Gallen von 9. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert, in Die Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek St Gallen, ed. Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti (St. Gall, 1983), pp. 9*-99*. WorldCat
David Ganz, The Libraries, Librarians and Library Catalogues of Reichenau and St. Gall
Iberia
Bibliographies:
Charles Faulhaber, Libros y bibliotecas en la España medieval: Una bibliografía de fuentes impresas, Research Bibliographies and Checklists 47 (London, 1987). WorldCat
Studies:
Jean-Michel Laspéras, “Inventaires de bibliothèques et documents de librairie dans le monde hispanique aux XVe, XVIe, XVIIe siècles,” Revue française d’histoire du livre 28 (1980), 535-57.
Jésus Alturo i Perucho, “Les inventaires de livres dans la Catalogne du IXe au XIIe siècles,” Scriptorium 50 (1996), 370-79.
Italy
Repertories:
RICABIM: Repertorio di inventari.
Inventari delle Biblioteche medievali Italiane
Collections of Essays:
Libri, lettori e biblioteche dell’Italia medievale, secoli IX-XV. Fonti, testi, utilizzazione del libro. Atti della Tavola rotonda italo-francese (Roma 7-8 marzo 1997), ed. Giuseppe Lombardi and Donatella Nebbiai Dalla Guarda, Documents, études et répertoires publiés par l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (Rome, 2001), pp. 349-72. WorldCat
Studies:
Monica Pedralli, “Novo, grande, coverto e ferrato.” Gli inventari di biblioteca e la cultura a Milano nel Quattrocento (Milan, 2002). WorldCat
Low Countries
Repertories:
Corpus catalogorum Belgii. The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries, ed. Albert Derolez et al. (Brussels, 1994-2016 ). WorldCat 1. Province of West Flanders (1997); 2. Provinces of Lièges, Luxemburg and Namur (1994); 3. Counts of Flanders, Provinces of East Flanders, Antwerp and Limburg (1999); 4. Provinces of Brabant and Hainault (1999); 5. Dukes of Burgundy (2016); 6. The Reading-List of the Priory of Zevenborren (2011); 7. The Surviving Manuscripts and Incunables from Medieval Belgian Libraries (2009).
Collections of Essays:
A Bunch of Books. Book Collections in the Medieval Low Countries, ed. Suzan Folkerts and Renée Gabriël, special issue of Queeste 20 (2013). WorldCat
Middeleeuwse bibliotheken en boekenlijsten in de zuidelijke Nederlanden / Les bibliothèques médiévales et leurs catalogues dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux, ed. Wouter Bracke and Albert Derolez (Wetteren, 2005). WorldCat
Studies:
R. L. Plancke, “Middeleeuwse inventarissen van Belgische kloosterbibliotheken,” De Gulden Passer 26 (1948), 237-52. WorldCat
R. L. Plancke, “Middeleeuwse handschrifteninvenarissen,” De Gulden Passer 27 (1949), 24-35. WorldCat Lists manuscripts and editions.
Gerda C. Huisman, “Commune Sacrarium: Manuscripts in Printed Library Catalogues of the Northern Low Countries, 1595-1800,” in Manuscript Studies in the Low Countries. Proceedings of the ‘Groninger Codicologendagen’ in Friesland, 2002, ed. Anne Margreet W. As-Vijvers, Jos M. M. Hermans, and Gerda C. Huisman, Boekhistorische reeks 13 (Groningen, 2008), pp. 60-80. WorldCat
Vatican and Avignon
Marie-Henriette Jullien de Pommerol and Jacques Monfrin, La bibliothèque pontificale à Avignon et à Peñiscola pendant le Grand Schisme d’Occident et sa dispersion: inventaires et concordances, 2 vols., Collection de l’École française de Rome 141 (Rome, 1991). WorldCat
Daniel Williman, Bibliothèques ecclésiastiques au temps de la papauté d’Avignon, 2 vols. in 3 parts. 1/1. Inventaires de bibliothèques du Vatican (1287-1420): Répertoire; 1/2. Inventaires de de prélats et de clercs non français: Édition; 2. Inventaires de prélats et de clercs français: Édition, ed. Marie-Henriette Jullien de Pommerol and Jacques Monfrin, Documents, études et répertoires publiés par l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (Paris, 1980-2901). WorldCat
III. Medieval Transmission of Texts and Manuscripts
Bibliographies
Introductions, Guides, and Handbooks:
Repertories:
Databases:
TRAME: Text and Manuscript Transmission of the Middle Ages in Europe. Aggregates searches in over thirty manuscript databases (not including the ones listed below; for a list select “Sites” on the search engine page). Allows searches by free text, shelfmark, and advanced (dates; place names; copyists; author; title, incipit).
FAMA: Oeuvres latines médiévales à succès. Includes a comprehensive listing of Authors and Works and of Manuscripts. The Search function allows simple searches (for example by title words) as well as batch searches by “Genus” (18 genre categories, ranging from “Apocrypha, visions” to “Theology”) and by Manuscript.
Bibale: Historic Collections, Provenance, and Medieval Text Transmission. Use “Recherche simple” and “type de livre: Contenu indicatif (auteur, titre)” to search by author or title. For persons there are also both simple and advances search fields.
Biblissima. A “virtual library of libraries” dealing with “the history of various texts and books that were written, translated, illuminated, collected and catalogued from Classical Antiquity through the 18th century.” Searchable by work, person, place, or shelfmark.
On the interrelation of the above three databases see See Hanno Wijsman, “The Bible Database at the IRHT: A Digital Tool for Researching Manuscript Provenance,” Manuscript Studies 1/2 (Fall 2017), 328-41.
Collections of Essays:
La trasmissione dei testi patristici latini: problemi e prospettive. Atti del convegno Roma, 26-28 ottobre 2009, ed. EmanuelaColombi, Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 60 (Turnhout, 2012), WorldCat
Transmission of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Outi Merisalo, Susanna Niiranen and Miika Kuha, Bibliologia 53 (Turnhout, 2019). WorldCat
Studies:
Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann, “Überlieferungsprozesse: Sammeln – Auswählen– Kanonisieren. Eine Einführung,” Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 53 (2018), 1-10. Introduction to a special issue on the transmission of texts.
Pascale Bourgain, “The Circulation of Texts in Manuscript Culture,” in The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches, ed. Michael Johnston and Michael Van Dussen (Cambridge, 2015), pp. 140-59. WorldCat
Richard Gameson, “The Circulation of Books between England and the Continent, c.871–c.1100,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 1: c. 400–1100 (Cambridge, 2012), pp. 344-72.
Rosamond McKitterick, “Exchanges between the British Isles and the Continent, c.450–c.900,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 1: c. 400–1100 (Cambridge, 2012), pp. 313-37.
By Order:
By Region/Country:
Britain:
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture. In-progress register of writings known in England to 1100. Entries list relevant manuscripts written or owned in England down to 1100. Volumes published to date: Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. Frederick M. Biggs et al., Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 74 (Binghamton NY, 1990); Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, vol. 1: Abbo of Fleury, Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and Acta Sanctorum, ed. Frederick M. Biggs et al. (Kalamazoo MI, 2001); Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: The Apocrypha, ed. Frederick M. Biggs, Instrumenta Anglistica Mediaevalia 1(Kalamazoo MI, 2007); The Liturgical Books of Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Richard W. Pfaff, Old English Newsletter Subsidia 23 (Kalamazoo MI, 1995); Ambrose in Anglo-Saxon England, with Pseudo-Ambrose and Ambrosiaster, ed. Dabney Anderson Bankert, Jessica Wegmann, and Charles D. Wright, Old English Newsletter Subsidia 25 (Kalamazoo, MI 1997).
J. D. A. Ogilvy, Books Known to the English, 597-1066 (Cambridge MA, 1967). WorldCat
Insular Manuscripts AD 650-850: Networks of Knowledge
The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220
Seymour de Ricci Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta Digitized Archive: “searchable database containing the digitized notes of the historian and bibliographer Seymour Montefiore Robert Rosso de Ricci (1881-1942) made for the compilation of his unfinished Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta.”
M. T. Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record: England 1066–1307, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1993).
John B. Friedman, Northern English Books, Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages (Syracuse, 1995). WorldCat See ch. 1 (“Northern Book-Owning Men and Women. Evidence from Wills and Extant Manuscripts”) and Appendix C (“Book Ownership in the North. A Census from Wills”).
Manuscripts Online: Written Culture 1000 to 1500. Allows simultaneous searches of some 20 online databases of British manuscripts: Includes: The Auchinleck Manuscript; British History Online; British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts; British Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance; Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archbishopric of York, 1300-1858; Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership; Europa Inventa; Geographies of Orthodoxy: Mapping Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ, 1350-1550; Imagining History: Perspectives on late medieval vernacular historiography; Late Medieval English Scribes; Linguistic Geographies: The Gough Map of Great Britain; Manuscripts of the West Midlands; Middle English Dictionary; The Middle English Grammar Corpus (MEG-C); Middle English Texts Series; The Norman Blake Editions of the Canterbury Tales; Parker on the Web; Production and Use of English Manuscripts: 1060-1220; The Taxatio; The Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse; The National Archives.
The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220.
Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic [DigiPal] (King’s College London).
Manuscripts of the West Midlands
Brittany:
Ireland and Carolingian Brittany: Texts and Transmission
Iberia:
Aires Augusto Nascimento, “Concentração, dispersão e dependências na circulação de manuscritos em Portugal nos séculos XII e XIII,” in Colóquio sobre circulación de codices y escritos entre Europa y la Península en los siglos VIII-XIII, Cursos y congresos de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela 36 (Santiago de Compostela 1988), pp. 6-85. WorldCat
C. Sánchez-Albornoz, “Nota sobre los libros leídos en el Reino de León hace mil años,” Cuadernos de Historia de España 1-2 (1944), 222-38. WorldCat
M. R. García Alvarez, “Los libros en la documentación gallega de la Alta Edad Media,” Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos 20 (1965), 292-329. WorldCat
Manuel C. Díaz y Díaz, “La circulation des manuscrits dans la Péninsule ibérique du VIIIe au XIe siècle,” in his Vie chrétienne et culture dans l’Espagne du VIIe au Xe siècles (Aldershot,1992), no. XII. WorldCat
Ireland:
Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Clavis Litterarum Hibernensium: Medieval Irish Books & Texts (c. 400 – c. 1600), 3 vols., Corpus Christianorum, Claves (Turnhout, 2017).
Richard Sharpe, “Books from Ireland, Fifth to Ninth Centuries,” Peritia 21 (2010), 1-55. WorldCat
The Foundations of Irish Culture: Irish Manuscripts on the Continent, AD 600 – AD 850
Journals:
RursuSpicae. Transmission, réception et réécriture des textes, de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge
IV. Modern Manuscript Catalogues
Bibliographies
Cumulative
Paul O. Kristeller and Sigrid Krämer, Latin Manuscript Books before 1600: A List of the Printed Catalogues and Unpublished Inventories of Extant Collections, Revised digital edition 2016. Exhaustive coverage combining and updated the 1993 edition and 2006 Ergänzungsband. Divided into sections: A: Bibliography and Statistics of Libraries and Their Collections of Manuscripts; B: Works Describing Manuscripts of More than One City or Groups of Libraries; C: Printed Catalogues and Handwritten Inventories of Individual Libraries, by City; D: Directories and Guides to Libraries and Archives. The search field allows free searches and searches by library, author, title, or page number. One can also download a searchable pdf. of the 1993 edition.
The unpublished inventories listed in the 1965 edition of Kristeller-Krämer can be consulted in the following microfilm corpus:
F. E. Cranz, A Microfilm Corpus of Unpublished Inventories of Latin Manuscripts through 1600 A. D. (New London, 1988). WorldCat Print Index with 341 microfilm reels.
The indexes from the catalogues listed by the 1965 edition of Kristeller-Krämer are collected in:
F. E. Cranz, A Microfilm Corpus of the Indexes to Printed Catalogues of Latin Manuscripts before 1600 A. D. (New London, 1982). WorldCat Print index with 39 microfilm reels. The print index itemizes all indexes in all the catalogues listed in the 1965 edition. An “Index of Indexes” (pp. 607-09) specifies catalogues that include indexes under the following categories: Chronlogy; Geography; Iconology; Incipits; Languages; Libraries or manuscripts by libraries; Miniatures, miniaturists, illumination, initiale, etc.; Musical notation; Paleography; Palimpsests; Prices; Scribes, calligraphers, etc.; Provenance. There is also an “Index to secondary lists of libraries and of private collections” (pp. 535-606) as well as a Main Index of libraries and of persons.
Dolbeau and Pierre Petitmengin, Indices Librorum. The online texts can be browsed and searched for a particular library collection or a particular author or “theme” (mainly genres of texts). See the sections “Collections actuelles” and “Collections dispersés.” Includes indices of authors, owners and collectors, and places, as well as a chronological index of medieval inventories.
Jacques Berlioz, Identifier sources et citations, L’atelier du médiéviste 1 (Turnhout, 1994), pp. 270-73.
Boyle, Medieval Latin Palaeography, pp. 219-32.
Laufende Katalogisierungs- und Retrokonversionsprojekte (Manuscripta Mediaevalia).
For Greek manuscripts see:
Marcel Richard, Répertoire des bibliothèques et des catalogues de manuscrits grecs, 3rd ed., Corpus Christianorum (Turnhout, 1995). WorldCat
Robert E. Sinckewicz, Greek Index Project Series: A Master Index of Greek Manuscripts, from Homer to A.D. 1600, 4 vols. (Toronto, 1989-92). WorldCat
Clavis Patrum Graecorum, ed. Maurice Geerard and J. Noret, 5 vols. and Supplement, with 2nd ed. of vol. 4 (Turnhout, 1974-2018). WorldCat Now incorporated into the online database Clavis Clavium.
Albert Ehrhard, Überlieferung und Bestand der hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der griechischen Kirche von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts (Leipzig, 1937-52). See also Handschriftenregister zu Albert Ehrhard. WorldCat
Albert Siegmund, Die Überlieferung der griechischen christlichen Literatur in der lateinischen Kirche bis zum zwölften Jahrhundert, Bayerischen Benediktiner-Akademie, Abhandlungen 5 (Munich, 1939).
Lists of Online Library Catalogues
Online Catalogues of Medieval Manuscripts (Albrecht Diem)
Handschriftenkatologe Online (Universitätsbibliothek Kassel). Includes lists of Kataloge Deutschland and Kataloge Internationale.
Anne Tournieroux, Catalogues de manuscrits et d’incunables (Ménestrel)
Historische Hilfswissenschaften: Handschriftenbibliotheken
Handschriftencensus.de: Handschriftenkataloge und -verzeichnisse
Serial
Scriptorium (1946/47- ). WorldCat See the index to the annual “Bulletin codicologique.”
Medioevo Latino. See the sections “Cataloghi di manoscritti” and “Manoscritti da cataloghi.”
Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique (Louvain, 1900- ). WorldCat Now incorporated into the database Index Religiosus.
Bibliographie der Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte (1982-2004) WorldCat . See the section “Handschfriftenkunde und -katalogisierung.”
Databases
Mirabile: DB Mediolatino. Search the subject field “Cataloghi di manuscritti.” One can also search “Catalogue of Manuscripts,” “Katalog der Handschriften,” etc. under “Bibliografia — Titoli”.
Index Religiosus. In Free search, choose “Libraries” with sub-categories “Catalogues,” “Ecclesiastical,” “History,” “Monastic,” “Parish.”
Surveys of Scholarship
Arno Mentzel-Reuters, “Literaturbericht Handschriftenkataloge,” Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters51 (1995), 169-94; 53 (1997), 179-203; 54 (1999), 583-611; 57 (2001), 555-601; 60 (2004), 201-32; 63 (2007), 135-64. WorldCat
Modern Libraries and Their Collections
Klaus Gantert, Handschriften, Inkunabeln, Alte Drucke – Informationsressourcen zu historischen Bibliotheksbeständen, Bibliotheks- und Informationspraxis 60 (Berlin, 2019). WorldCat
Gérard E. Weil, The International Directory of Manuscripts Collections, Libraries, Private Collections, Repositories and Archives / Répertoire des bibliothèques, collections, depôts de manuscripts et archives dans le monde, vol. 1, Europe, 1: The Manuscript Collections (Paris, 1978). WorldCat
CERL, Manuscripts Experts Group, National Backgrounds. “This section provides per country concise information about the major manuscripts and archives collections, about the institutions where the collections are kept (website links, historical data, etc.).”
Anagrafe delle Biblioteche Italiane: Italian Libraries Database
Databases
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library; VHMML Reading Room; Legacy Catalogue
Manuscriptorium: Digital Library of Written Cultural Heiitage. Aggregates digital collections of the National Library of the Czech Republic; Museum of Western Bohemia; Moravian Library; Madrid, Universidad Complutense; Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, and others.
Introductions, Guides, and Handbooks
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Richtlinien Handschriftenkatalogisierung, 5th ed. (Bonn, 1992).
Gregory A. Pass, Descriptive Cataloging of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Manuscripts (Chicago, 2003). See Appendix F, “Manuscript Description and Cataloguing Bibliography: II. Cataloguing and Description,” pp. 132-141. Covers the theory, practice, and history of manuscript cataloguing.
Studies:
Collections of Essays
Katalogisierung mittelalterlicher Handschriften in internationaler Perspektive. Vorträge der Handschriftenbearbeitertagung vom 24. bis 27. Oktober 2005 in München, ed. Claudia Fabian and Bettina Wagner, Beiträge zum Buch- und Bibliothekswesen 53 (Wiesbaden, 2007). WorldCat Table of Contents.
Websites
Catalogues
By Period
Before 800
E. A. Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores: A Palaeographical Guide to Latin Manuscripts prior to the Ninth Century , 11 vols. and Supplement (Oxford, 1934-72). WorldCat . 1. The Vatican City; 2. Great Britain and Ireland (1935; rev. ed., 1972); 3. Italy: Ancona-Novara; 4. Italy: Perugia-Verona; 5. France: Paris; 6. France: Abbeville-Valenciennes; 7. Switzerland; 8. Germany: Altenburg-Leipzig; 9. Germany: Maria Laach-Würzburg; 10. Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, and Holland; 11. Hungary, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, The United States, and Yugoslavia; 12. Supplement. Data now incorporated (without the facsimiles and manuscript bibliographies) in the following item.
Earlier Latin Manuscripts: Tools for Studying the Scripts of the Oldest Latin Manuscripts. “Our database is founded on E. A. Lowe’s Codices Latini Antiquiores and thus focuses on non-documentary texts written before the year 800. All of the manuscripts in Lowe’s corpus and its supplements will be found in our database, along with corrections by Lowe and later scholars. In addition to the research tools provided by the catalogue, you will also find collections of manuscripts organised around origin, provenance, script, and text. These databases can be interrogated in several ways: filtering by keyword, which searches the text of the entire database, by library, by script, or by date (or any combination of those filters). The results can then be sorted by clicking on any of the column headings.”
Ninth-Century
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), 4 vols., Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz (Wiesbaden, 1998-2017). WorldCat
Incunabula (Fifteenth-century prints)
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke / Union Catalogue of Incunabula. Based on the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke(Leipzig, 1925- ). Through “Hord, Jobst” as of 2019.
Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (British Library).
Archivio degli incunaboli in scrittura latina datati per anno (2009- ), ed. Gaetano Fascia, Marco Palma et al (2013). Excel file of in-progress database based on the British Library Short-Title Catalogue, with the fields A: anno di produzione; B: mese di produzione; C: giorno di produzione; D: luogo di stampa; E: indicazione sommaria dei testi presenti nell’incunabolo; F: nome del tipografo; G: numero ISTC.
Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Museum (London, 1908-2007). WorldCat
Inkunabelkatalog INKA. Enables combined searches of a large number of incunable collections in German libraries.
Catalogue of the Incunabula of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Frederick R. Goff, Incunabula in American Libraries. A Third Census of Fifteenth-century Books recorded in North American Collections (New York, 1964). WorldCat With a Supplement (New York, 1972). WorldCat
Digitale Sammlung Inkunabeln und Blockbücher
Index Possessorum Incunabulorum
Older Repertories:
Ludwig Hain. Repertorium bibliographicum, in quo libri omnes ab arte typographica inventa usque ad annum MD. typis expressi (Stuttgart, 1826-38). WorldCat
W. A. Copinger, Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum, 2 vols. in 3 pts. (London, 1895-1902). WorldCat
Dietrich Reichling. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 8 vols. in 2, with Supplement (Milan, 1953). WorldCat
Sixteenth-Century Prints
Index Aureliensis. Catalogus librorum sedecimo saeculo impressorum, Bibliotheca bibliographica Aureliana, 7, 11, 13-14, 16 (Baden-Baden 1965-2014). WorldCat
Census of Italian 16th Century Editions (EDIT 16)
Register of Printed Works of the 16th Century published in German-speaking Countries (VD 16)
By Region/Country
Bibliographies:
Catalogues of Manuscripts: Countries (Ménestrel)
Multiple Regions
Europeana Collections. Search “manuscripts” and “(la)” for Latin; then narrow by selecting Providing Country, Aggregator, or Institution, or by adding other search terms (author, title, incipit, iconographic motif, etc.).
England and France, 700–1200: Medieval Manuscripts from the BnF and the British Library (Polonsky Foundation). Can be browsed by Themes (Bible, Classics and Late Antiquity, Hagiography, History, Law, Liturgy, Medieval Literature, Sciences, Theology and Philosophy, Trivium), Authors, Places, Centuries.
Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project. Collaboration between the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and Bodleian Library, including collections of digitized Early Printed Books, Greek Manuscripts, Hebrew Manuscripts, and Latin Manuscripts. Currently all the digitized Latin manuscripts are from the Vatican Library.
Hill Monastic Manuscripts Library
BVMM: Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux (IRHT)
Manuscriptorium: Digital Library of Written Cultural Heiitage. Aggregates digital collections of the National Library of the Czech Republic; Museum of Western Bohemia; Moravian Library; Madrid, Universidad Complutense; Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, and others. Go to “Digital Library” for search screen; searchable by Titles, Authors, Shelf-mark, Description, Location, Date, Keywords, and more.
Master: Manuscript Access through Standards for Electronic Records. Currently contains records of manuscripts in the Arnamagnaean Institut, Copenhagen; The Royal Library, The Hague; the National Library, Prague; and the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Texts (mainly from the Bibliothèque Municipale, Troyes).
Marginal Scholarship. Database of 132 early medieval manuscripts with marginal annotations.
Austria
Bibliographies:
Literatur zu Handschriften. Database incorporating and updating material from the Bibliographie zu mittelalterlichen Handschriften in Österreich.
Handschriftenkataloge Österreich
Veröffentlichungen (II) zum Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters
Major Catalogues:
Verzeichnis der Handschriften Österreichischer Bibliotheken, ed. Otto Mazal et al., 11 vols. to date, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Denkschriften der phil.-hist. Klasse (Vienna, 1975- ). WorldCat
Collections of Essays:
Handschriftenbeschreibung in Österreich. Referate, Beratungen und Ergebnissse der Arbeitstagungen in Kremsmünster (1973) und Zwettl (1974), ed. Otto Mazal, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Denkschriften der phil.-hist. Klasse 122; Veröffentlichungen (II) zum Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters 1 (Vienna, 1975). WorldCat
By Library:
Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek:
Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Other Libraries:
Sankt Paul im Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek
Websites:
Britain
Major Catalogues:
By Period:
Early Medieval England (to 1100):
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto, 2015). WorldCat
N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon, 2nd ed. with supplement (Oxford, 1990). WorldCat
Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, ed. A. N. Doane and P. Pulsiano (Binghamton, 1994- ). WorldCat .
Simon Keynes, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Other Items of Related Interest in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, Old English Newsletter, Subsidia 18 (Binghamton, 1992). WorldCat
Norman England:
N. R. Ker, English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest (Oxford, 1960). WorldCat
Richard Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford, 1999). WorldCat
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Woodbridge, 2003). WorldCat
The Production and Use of English Manuscripts, 1066-1220. Includes a Catalogue of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 and a Bibliography.
Later Medieval England:
Octave Julien, Base de données des recueils médiévaux (France, Angleterre, XIIIe-XVe s.).
By Library:
British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval & Renaissance
N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, 5 vols. (Oxford, 1969-2002). 1. London; 2. Abbotsford-Keele; 3. Lampeter-Oxford; 4. Paisley-York; 5. Indexes and Addenda, ed. C. Cunningham and Andrew G. Watson. WorldCat . The indices include Authors, Subjects, and Titles; Names; Bibles; Liturgy; Iconography; Languages Other Than Latin; Origins and Dates; Secundo Folios; Incipits; Repertories Cited; Manuscripts Cited.
London, British Library:
London, British Library, Archives and Manuscripts. Search the Index by name or index entry, or the manuscript Descriptions (allows boolean searches), or locate the description of a specific manuscript.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, and Other Oxford Libraries:
Oxford, Bodleian Library; see also Digital Bodleian Luna collection the digitized collection of Early Manuscripts at Oxford University. Also see the online Finding Aids – Papyri, Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library.
Cambridge University Library:
Cambridge University Library. See “Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library: A Guide to Finding Aids.”
Cambridge Digital Library, Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online
A Catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, 5 vols. and Index (Cambridge, 1856-67). Vol. 1; Vol. 2; Vol. 3; Vol. 4;; Vol. 5; Index.
Other Cambridge Libraries:
Janus. “provides access to more than 1800 catalogues of archives held throughout Cambridge.”
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Cambridge, Trinity College Library
Cambridge, St. John’s College Library
Other Libraries:
Studies:
A. J. Piper, “Cataloguing British Collections of Medieval Western Manuscripts, 1895-1995,” in The Legacy of M. R. James: Papers from the 1995 Cambridge Symposium, ed. Lynda Dennison (Donnington, Lincs, 2001), pp. 53-64. WorldCat
Databases:
Seymour de Ricci Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta Digitized Archive: “searchable database containing the digitized notes of the historian and bibliographer Seymour Montefiore Robert Rosso de Ricci (1881-1942) made for the compilation of his unfinished Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta.”
France
Major Catalogues:
By Library:
Multiple Libraries:
Catalogue collectif de France. Select “Manuscrits et Archives,” then choose the library (in the pull-down menu “Toutes les villes” and then the library (in the menu “Toutes les institutions”), and then fill in the shelfmark under “Cote.”
Calames: Online Catalogues of Archives and Manuscripts in French University and Research Libraries
MEDIUM. Répertoire des manuscripts reproduces ou recensés. “MEDIUM is a handlist of manuscripts worldwide and those for which IRHT has microfilms or digital reproductions: reproductions of manuscripts in French libraries other than the BnF; microfilms of manuscripts worldwide selected for IRHT research projects; links toward manuscripts worldwide reproduced on-line”
Patrimonie numérique: Catalogue des collections numérisées
Manuscrits médiévaux d’Aquitaine. Bibliothèque de Bordeaux; Archives départemntales de la Gironde; Cathédrale Saint-André de Bordeaux. Includes a Bibliographie: Manuscrits.
Bibliothèque nationale de France:
Bibliothèque nationale de la France, Archives et Manuscrits. Enter the shelfmark under “Cote” (do not abbreviate “latin” to “lat.” and do not hit “enter/return”, but click on “Rechercher”). Or for mansuscripts Latin and Nouvelles acquisitions latines you can also browse by shelfmark.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
Paris, Bibliothèque national de France: Gallica
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France: Summary Catalogue of Digitised Latin Manuscripts
List of BnF print catalogues (Arlima)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. Catalogue général des manuscrits latins, ed. Philippe Lauer et al., 7 vols. to date (Paris, 1939- ). WorldCat Vols. 1-7 available online at Gallica. For indices see following item.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. Catalogue géneral des manuscrits latins: Tables (Paris, 1968-1991). WorldCat
Other Libraries:
Angers, Bibliothèque Municipale
Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine: Mazarinum: Les collections numériques de la Bibliothèque Mazarine
Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque d’Agglomération
Sélestat, Bibliothèque humaniste
Valenciennes, Bibliothèque Municipale
Germany
Comprehensive:
Gesamtindex mittelalterlicher Handschriftenkataloge. Kumulation der Register der seit 1945 in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland erschienenen Handschriftenkataloge, 2nd ed., ed. Michael Bernd (Wiesbaden, 2000) with microfiche. WorldCat Data incorporated into Manuscripta Mediaevalia.
Handschriftenkataloge (Manuscripta Mediaevalia). Digitized corpus of manuscript catalogues in the following German libraries: Aachen; Ansbach; Aschaffenburg; Augsburg; Aurich; Bamberg; Berlin; Biberach; Darmstadt; Dessau; Dresden; Düsseldorf; Ebstorf; Eichstätt; Emden; Erlangen; Frankfurt; Freiburg; Fritzlar; Fulda; Bad Gandersheim; Gießen; Göttingen; Gotha; Halle; Hamburg; Hannover; Heidelberg; Hildesheim; Jena; Karlsruhe; Kassel; Koblenz; Köln; Leipzig; Lüneburg; Mainz; Marburg; München; Münster; Nürnberg; Oldenberg; Osnabrück; Ottobeuren; Schwabach; Soest; Stuttgart; Trier; Tübingen; Überlingen; Bad Windsheim; Wittenberg; Wolfenbüttel; Würzburg; Zwickau.
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek:
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Note that the Forschungsdokumentation Handschriften allows one to generate links to Munich manuscripts keyed to publications by names of authors or subjects.
Gedruckte Handschriftenkataloge der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek
Other Libraries:
Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz\
Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität
Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek
Kassel, Universitätsbibliothek
Leiden, Rijksuniversiteit Bibliotheek
Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek
Merseburg, Domstiftsbibliothek
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek
Iberia
Spain:
Guy Fink-Errera, “A propos des bibliothèques d’Espagne: Tables de concordance,” Scriptorium 13 (1959), 89-119.
By Library:
Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España:
Biblioteca Nacional de España: Manuscritos
Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de Espanã
Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia Biblioteca Digital
Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial:
Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial
Guillermo Antolín, Catálogo de los códices latinos de la Real Biblioteca del Escorial, 5 vols. (Madrid, 1910-23). WorldCat Vol. 1; Vol. 2; Vol. 3; Vol. 4.
Other Libraries:
Guía de manuscritos en las bibliotecas universitarias españolas, ed. María Luisa Rincón Atienza and Antonio Luis Galán Gall, Colección biblos 9 (Cuenca, 2008). WorldCat
Portugal:
Thomas Amos, The Fundo Alcobaça of the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 2 vols., Descriptive Inventories of Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Hill Monastica Manuscript Library: Portuguese Libraries (Collegeville MN, 1988-89); Index of Dated Manuscripts vol 1; Index of Dated Manuscripts vol. 2.
Ireland
Richard J. Hayes, Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilization, 11 vols. (Boston, 1965). WorldCat 1-4: Persons; 5-6: Subjects; 7-8: Places; 9-10: Dates; 11: Lists of Manuscripts. With a First supplement, 1965-1975 (Boston, 1979). WorldCat
The Foundations of Irish Culture: Irish Manuscripts on the Continent, AD 600 – AD 850
By Library:
Marvin L. Colker, Trinity College Library Dublin: Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval and Renaissance Latin Manuscripts, 2 vols. (Aldershot, 1991). WorldCat . Supplement One (Dublin, 2008). WorldCat
Italy
Bibliographies:
BibMan: Bibliografia dei manoscritti in alfabeto latino conservati in Italia. Go to “Sedi”: “SIGLEB” for an alphabetical list of the sigla for the libraries to use in searching the database.
Bibliografia di inventari e cataloghi a stampa dei manoscritti conservati nelle biblioteche italiane, 3 vols. (Rome, 1985- ). WorldCat 1. Emilia-Romagna; 2. Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trentino Alto Adige; 3. Abruzzo.
Major Catalogues:
Internet culturale: Cataloghi e collezioni digitali delle biblioteche Italiane: Manoscritti
Biblioteca Digitale Italiana: Cataloghi Storici Digitalizzati
Inventari dei manoscritti delle biblioteche d’Italia (Turin and Florence, 1887- ). WorldCat Series as e-books (Torrossa). Vols. 1-27 on Hathi Trus; Vols. 1-12 on archive.org.
By Library:
Cesena, Biblioteca Malatestiana
Florence, Biblioteca Centrale: Manoscritti: Inventari e cataloghi
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli
Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense; Bibliografia dei manoscritti
Rome, Biblioteca nazionale centrale
Databases:
Manus: censimento dei manoscritti delle biblioteche italiane
Internet Interculturale. Cataloghi e Collezioni Digitali delle Biblioteche Italiane
Censimento dei manoscritti medievali della Lombardia
Censimento dei manoscritti medievali della Sardegna
Codex: Inventario dei manoscritti medievali della Toscana
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Manoscritti in rete
CDAVr: Codice digitale degli archivi veronesi (VIII-XII secolo)
Nuova Biblioteca Manoscritta: Catalogo dei manoscritti delle biblioteche del Veneto
Low Countries
Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections
Bibliotheca Neerlanda Manuscript
Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek
CICweb.be: Online Guide to Medieval Manuscripts in Wallonia – Brussels
By Library:
KBR: Manuscripts (Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique)
Poland
Manuscripts.pl. Includes an extensive Bibliography.
Scandinavia
Epsen Karlsen, “Katalogisering av latinske membranfragmenter som forskningsprosjekt: Del 2,” in Arkivverkets Forskningsseminar Gardermoen 2003, Rapporter og retningslinjer 16 (Oslo, 2003), pp. 58-88. WorldCat
Handrit.is. Database of manuscripts in Icelandic libraries. Can be searched or browsed (by title, author, and genre [under Keywords].
Manuscripta.se: A Digital Catalogue of Manuscripts in Sweden
Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliothek
Lund University, St. Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library
Kungliga bibliotekets Stockholm, Handskriftssamlingens nominalkatalog
Latin Manuscripts of Medieval Norway: Studies in Memory of Lilli Gjerløw, ed. Espen Karlsen (Oslo, 2013). WorldCat
Medieval Book Fragments in Sweden: An International Seminar in Stockholm, November 2003, ed. Jan Brunius(Stockholm, 2005). WorldCat
Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments: The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books, ed. Åslaug Ommundsenand Tuomas Heikkilä (New York, 2017). WorldCat
Margrét Eggertsdóttir, Manuscript Resources in Iceland
The Fragment membrane collection. “The Fragmenta membranea collection at the National library of Finland contains the vast majority of the remains of books written and used in the eastern parts of medieval Sweden, the Diocese of Turku.”
Slovenia
Mittelalterliche Handschriften in lateinischer Schrift in und aus Slowenien
Switzerland
e-codices: Virtuelle Handbibliothek der Schweiz. The descriptions of facsimiled manuscripts in Swiss libraries usually include catalogue descriptions or links to descriptions.
Codices.ch: Antike und mittelalterliche Handschriften in der Schweiz. For a list of catalogues by library see Mittelalterliche Handschriftenbestände: Handschriftenkataloge und andere Findmittel.
By Library:
Multiple Libraries:
codices.ch: Bestände/Kataloge. Comprehensive listing of catalogues by library.
Verbundkatalog HAN: Handschriften. Database includes Aarau: Kantonsbibliothek Aargau; Basel: Bernoulli-Briefedition; Basel: Schweizerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv; Basel: Universitätsbibliothek Basel; Bern: Gosteli-Archiv; Bern: Rorschach-Archiv; Frauenfeld: Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau; Luzern: Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern; Solothurn: Zentralbibliothek Solothurn; Trogen: Kantonsbibliothek Appenzell Ausserrhoden; St. Gallen: Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana St. Gallen; St. Gallen: Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen; Zofingen: Stadtbibliothek Zofingen. In the advanced index search field for manuscripts, one can search by shelfmark (“location/call no.”), title, incipit, and various other categories.
St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek:
United States and Canada
Repertories:
Seymour de Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 3 vols. and Supplement (New York, 1935-40). WorldCat
C. U. Faye and W. H. Bond, Supplement to the Densus of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York, 1962). WorldCat
Uncatalogued Manuscript Control Center (De Ricci Project). Archived website, not updated since 2003.
Databases:
National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections
Digital Scriptorium. “Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a growing consortium of American institutions with collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. As an online image repository, the DS website allows users to verify descriptive metadata with visual evidence of the manuscripts described. As an online union catalog, DS unites scattered rare materials, including dispersed manuscript leaves from dismembered books, into a national digital platform for cross-collection teaching and scholarly research. DS records not only include recognized touchstone materials, such as manuscripts signed and dated by their scribes or illuminators, but also unidentified manuscripts that are traditionally unlikely candidates for exhibition or reproduction in print.” See also the Wikipedia article by the project directors.
Studies:
Vatican City
Bibliographies:
Marco Buonocore, Bibliografia dei fondi manoscritti della Biblioteca Vaticana (1968–1985), 3 vols. Studi e testi 318-19; 342 (Vatican City, 1986-91).
General Topical Research Bibliography: A Guide to Source Material on Microfilmed Manuscripts from the Vatican Library‘s Collections Located in the Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University. Includes a list of published manuscript catalogues of Vatican Library manuscripts. Note that there is also a “Research Guide to Non-Vatican Manuscripts on Microfilm at the Vatican Film Library.”
Repertories:
Francesco D’Aiuto and Paolo Vian, Guida ai fondi manoscritti, numismatici, a stampa della Biblioteca Vaticana. I. Dipartimento Manoscritti, Studi e Testi 466 (Vatican City, 2011). WorldCat
Librorum Latinorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae Index a Nicolao de Maioranis compositus et Fausto Saboeo collatus. Anno MDXXXIII, ed. Assunta Di Sante and Antonio Manfredi, Studi e testi 458 (Vatican City, 2009).
Catalogues:
Inventories and Index of Manuscript Collections in Digital Version
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Online Catalogue: Manuscripts
See also Kristeller-Krämer and the bibliographies and repertories listed above.
Digitized Manuscripts:
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Digitized Manuscripts. Includes a database of Bibliographical References.
Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project. Collaboration between the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and Bodleian Library, including collections of digitized Early Printed Books, Greek Manuscripts, Hebrew Manuscripts, and Latin Manuscripts. Currently all the digitized Latin manuscripts are from the Vatican Library.
Manuscripts And Annotations From All Thematic Pathways
Private Collections
Dated and Datable Manuscripts
[In addition to dedicated catalogues of dated and datable manuscripts, most good manuscript catalogues include an index of dated manuscripts.]
Bibliographies
Albert Derolez, “The Publications Sponsored by the Comité International de Paléographie Latine”
Catalogues de manuscrits datés
Collections of Essays
Les Manuscrits datés: premier bilan et perspectives (Neuchâtel 1983), ed. Geneviève Grand et al. (Paris, 1985). WorldCat
Catalogazione, storia della scrittura, storia del libro. I manoscritti datati d’Italia vent’anni dopo, ed. Teresa De Robertis and Nicoletta Giovè Marchioli, mediEVI 16 (Florence, 2017). WorldCat Table of Contents.
Studies:
Denis Muzerelle, “Dating Manuscripts: What is at Stake in the Steps Usually (but Infrequently) Taken / Dater les manuscrits: les enjeux d’une démarche (trop peu) usuelle,” Journal of the Early Book Society 11 (2008), 167-80. WorldCat
Olivier Legendre, “Some Tools for Dating and Localizing Manuscripts,” The Journal of the Early Book Society 11 (2008), 181-96. WorldCat
Repertories
Comprehensive
Catalogue des manuscrits en écriture latine portant des indications de date, de lieu ou de copiste, ed. Charles Samaranand Robert Marichal (Paris, 1959- ). WorldCat For a list of published volumes see Catalogues de manuscrits datés. Most of these are also analyzed below. Several of the volumes covering French libraries are available online at Gallica. See also the online index (next item).
Online Index général interactif
Marco Palma, Archivio dei manoscritti in scrittura latina datati per anno fino al 1500 (2014). Excel file with the following fields: A: anno di produzione; B: mese di produzione; C: giorno di produzione; D: luogo di origine; E: sigla del paese oggetto della catalogazione dei codici datati (o nome dell’autore o della fonte da cui è stata ricavata l’informazione); F: volume, scheda (o pagina), tavola in cui il codice è descritto e riprodotto; G: segnatura del manoscritto; H: indicazione sommaria dei testi contenuti nel manoscritto; I: nome del copista.
By Country/Region
Austria
Katalog der datierten Handschriften in lateinischer Schrift in Österreich, 8 vols., ed. Franz Unterkircher et al. (Vienna, 1969-2000). WorldCat 1. Die datierten Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek bis zum Jahre 1400, 2 vols.; 2. 1401 bis 1450, 2 vols.; 3. 1451 bis 1500, 2 vols.; 4. 1501 bis 1600, 2 vols.; 5. Die datierten Handschriften in Wien ausserhalb der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek bis zum Jahre 1600, 2 vols.; 6. Die datierten Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Graz bis zum Jahre 1600, 2 vols.; 8. Datierte Handschriften in niederösterreichischen Archiven und Bibliotheken bis zum Jahre 1600, 2 vols.
Datierte Handschriften in lateinischer Schrift in Österreich. Database of the print Katalog, covering Admont, Benediktnerstift; Graz, Universitätsbibliothek; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek; and Vienna, Schottenstift, Bibliothek.
Britain
Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, 2 vols., ed. Andrew G. Watson (London, 1979). WorldCat
The British Library’s Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts permits searching by script and place of origin; the advanced search option allows you to specify the date range or provenance, and also to limit the search to dated/datable manuscripts. The BL Digitised Manuscripts page has a sliding scale that allows you to specify a date range and get a list of all digitized mss. within that range. The advanced options allow you to specify provenance.
Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, 2 vols., ed. Andrew G. Watson(Oxford, 1984). WorldCat
Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 737-1600 in Cambridge Libraries, ed. Pamela R. Robinson(Cambridge, 1988). WorldCat
Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in London, c. 888-1600 Libraries, ed. Pamela R. Robinson, 2 vols. (London, 2003). WorldCat
Kathleen L. Scott, Dated and Datable English Manuscript Borders, c.1395-1499 (London, 2002). WorldCat
France
Catalogue des manuscrits en écriture latine, ed. Samaran and Marichal: 1. Musée Condé et bibliothèques parisiennes; 2. Bibliothèque nationale, fonds latin (nos 1 à 8000): Textes; Planches; 3. Bibliothèque nationale, fonds latin (nos 8001 à 18613): Textes; Planches; 4. Bibliothèque nationale, fonds latin (supplément), Nouvelles acquisitions latines, petits fonds divers: Textes; Planches; 5. Est de la France: Textes; 6. Bourgogne, Centre, Sud-Est et Sud-Ouest de la France: Textes; Planches; 7. Ouest de la France et pays de Loire: Textes; Planches.
Manuscrits datés des bibliothèques de France, gen. ed. Dominique Stutzmann (Paris, 2000- ). WorldCat 1. Cambrai, ed. Denis Muzerelle et al. (2000); 2. Laon, Soissons, Saint-Quentin, ed. Denis Muzerelle et al. (2011).
Germany
Datierte Handschriften in Bibliotheken der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 6 vols. to date, gen. ed. Johanne Autenrieth and Tino Licht (Stuttgart 1984- ): 1. Die datierten Handschriften der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main WorldCat ; 2. Die datierten Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek und anderer öffentlicher Sammlungen in Freiburg im Breisgau und Umgebung WorldCat ; 3. Die datierten Handschriften der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart WorldCat ; 4. Die datierten Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München WorldCat ; 5. Die datierten Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg WorldCat ; 6. Die dateriten Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek München (2011). WorldCat
Iberia
Los manuscritos visigóticos: estudios paleográfico y codicológico, I: Códices riojanes datados, ed. Claudio García Turza (Logroño, 2002).
Italy
Repertories:
Manoscritti datati d’Italia (Florence, 1996- ). WorldCat List of published volumes. The project website includes simple and advances search fields as well as a searchable Bibliography (also downloadable as an Excel file, see “Materials”) and databases of places of conservation, toponyms. See also the literature on the project (“Testi”).
Marco Palma, Datati del Sud (2017). Excel file for an in progress project covering dated manuscripts from southern Italy.
Catalogo dei manoscritti in scrittura latina datati o databili per indicazione di anno, di luogo o di copista (Turin 1971-94). WorldCat 1. Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma, 2 vols.; 2. Biblioteca Angelica di Roma, 2 vols.; 3. Biblioteca di Perugia; 2 vols. Series succeeded by Manoscritti datati d’Italia.
Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt, Die illuminierten Handschriften italienischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, 2 vols. in 4 (Wiesbaden, 2011-14). WorldCat 1. Vom 10. bis zur Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts; 2. Von der Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts bis um 1540.
Studies:
Norme per i collaboratori dei Manoscritti datati d’Italia, 2nd. ed., ed. Teresa De Robertis et al. (Florence, 2007). WorldCat Table of Contents.
Teresa De Robertis, “La catalogazione dei Manoscritti datati d’Italia,” in Conoscere il manoscritto. Esperienze, progetti, problemi. Dieci anni dal progetto Codex in Toscana. Atti del convegno internazionale, Firenze, 29-30 giugno 2006, ed. Michaelangiola Marchiaro and Stefano Zamponi, Millennio medievale 70 (Florence, 2008), pp. 124-43. WorldCat
Low Countries
Manuscrits datés conservés dans les Pays-Bas: catalogue paléographique des manuscrits en écriture latine portant des indications de date (Amsterdam and Leiden, 1964- ): 1. G. I. Lieftinck, Les manuscrits d’origine étrangère (816-c.1550), 2 vols. (1964); 2. J. P. Gumbert,Les manuscrits d’origine néerlandaise (XIVe-XVIe siècles) et supplément au tome premier, 2 vols. (1988). WorldCat
Guide en ligne des manuscrits médiévaux Wallonie-Bruxelles
Manuscrits datés conservés en Belgique, 6 vols., gen. ed. Martin Wittek, François Masai, and Thérèse Glorieux-De Gand (Brussels,1968-1991). WorldCat
Antonius Sanderus, Bibliotheca belgica manuscripta, sive, elenchvs universalis codicum MSS. in celebrioribus Belgii coenobijs, ecclesijs, ac priuatorum hominum bibliothecis adhuc latentium, 2 vols. (Lille, 1641-44; repr. in 2 vols., Farnborough, 1969). Vol. 1. Vol. 2. WorldCat
Scandinavia
Katalog der datierten Handschriften in lateinischer Schrift vor 1600 in Schweden (Stockholm, 1977-1980). WorldCat 1. Monica Hedlund and Jan-Olaf Tjäder, Die Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Uppsala, 2 vols.; 2. Monica Hedlund and Jan-Olaf Tjäder, Die Handschriften Schwedens ausgenommen UB Uppsala, 2 vols.
Switzerland
Katalog der datierten Handschriften in der Schweiz in lateinischer Schrift vom Anfang des Mittelalters bis 1500, 3 vols.(Dietikon-Zürich, 1977-91). WorldCat 1. Die Handschriften der Bibliotheken von Aarau, Appenzell und Basel, ed. Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti; 2. Die Handschriften der Bibliotheken Bern – Porrentruy, ed. Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti; 3. Die Handschriften der Bibliotheken St. Gallen–Zurich, ed. Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti, Rudolf Gamper, and Marlis Stähli (1991).
United States
Digital Scriptorium. In Advanced search choose “Language” and enter “Latin,” then check the button “Dated MS? Yes.”
Vatican City
I codici latini datati della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican City, 1997- ). 1. I codici datati della Biblioteca apostolica Vaticana nei fondi Archivio S. Pietro, Barberini, Boncompagni, Borghese, Borgia, Capponi, Chigi, Ferrajoli, Ottoboni, 2 vols., dir. José Ruysschaert, ed. Adriana Marucchi with Albinia C. de la Mare(1997); WorldCat 2. I codici datati della Biblioteca apostolica Vaticana nei Vaticani latini 1-2100, 2 vols. and CD-ROM, ed.Elisabetta Caldelli (2007). WorldCat
Illuminated Manuscripts
For scholarship on illuminated manuscripts generally, see the separate bibliography on Iconography. Only major catalogues and scholarship about catalogues and about individual library collections are covered here.
Bibliographies
“Manuscript III: Illumination,” in The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture, 6 vols., ed. Colum Hourihane (Oxford, 2012), pp. . Includes an extensive bibliography of catalogues and other literature by country. WorldCat
John Block Friedman and Jessica Wegmann, Medieval Iconography: A Research Guide, Garland Medieval Bibliographies 20 (New York, 1999), pp. 19-30. WorldCat
Initiale. Bibliographie: Bibliothèques.
Dolbeau and Pierre Petitmengin, Indices Librorum. See the heading “Enluminées (mss).”
Cranz, A Microfilm Corpus of the Indexes, p. 608, indexes manuscript catalogues that include indices of “miniatures, miniaturists, illumination, initiale, etc.”
By Period
E. H. Zimmerman, Vorkarolingische Miniaturen, 5 vols. (Berlin, 1916-18). WorldCat
Wilhelm Koehler and Florentine Mütherich, Die karolingischen Miniaturen, 8 vols. (Berlin, 1933-2013). WorldCat
By Region/Country
Catalogues from individual libraries are sorted according to place of origin of the manuscripts catalogued; where manuscripts of multiple origins are catalogued, they are sorted according to the location of the library.
Austria
Bibliographies:
Martin Roland, Kataloge Illuminierter Handschriften in Österreich. Eine Bibliographie. Full listing of print and online catalogues. Add: Mitteleuropäische Schulen V (ca. 1410-1450) Wien und Niederösterreich, ed. Katharina Hranitzky et al., Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Klasse, Denkschriften 435; Veröffentlichungen zum Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters 1/14 (Vienna, 2012). WorldCat
Catalogues:
Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der illuminierten Handschriften in Österreich, ed. Franz Wickhoff et al., 8 vols. (Leipzig, 1905- ). WorldCat
Databases:
Friedrich Simader, Illuminierte Handschriften aus Österreich (ca. 780-1250)
Studies:
Martin Roland, “A Century of Cataloguing Illuminated Manuscripts in Vienna*
Websites:
Martin Roland, Materialien zur Buchmalerei (Otto Pächt Institut)
Pächt-Archiv: Forschungszentrum für Buchmalerei
Britain and Ireland (“Insular”)
Catalogues:
Early Medieval:
A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6 vols. in 9, gen. ed. J. J. G. Alexander (London, 1975-96). WorldCat : 1. J. J. G. Alexander, Insular Manuscripts: 6th to the 9th Century (1978); 2. Elżbieta Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, 900-1066 (1976); 3. C. M. Kaufmann, Romanesque Manuscripts, 1066-1190 (1975); 4. Nigel Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts, 2 vols. (1982-88); 5. Lucy Freman Sandler, Gothic Manuscripts, 1285-1385, 2 vols. (1986); 6. Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390-1490, 2 vols. (1996).
François Avril and Patricia Danz Stirnemann, Manuscrits enluminés d’origine insulaire VIIe-XXe siècle, Manuscrits enluminés de la Bibliothèque Nationale 3 (Paris, 1987). WorldCat
Johannes Duft and Peter Meyer, The Irish Miniatures in the Abbey Library of St. Gall (Olten, 1954). WorldCat
Insular Illuminated Manuscripts (Bill Endres)
Mildred Budny, Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: An Illustrated Catalogue, 2 vols. (Kalamazoo MI, 1997). WorldCat
Anglo-Saxon Illumination in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1970). WorldCat
Later Medieval:
An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII, c. 1380-c. 1509, 9 vols. to date, gen. ed. Kathleen L. Scott (Turnhout, 2000- ). WorldCat 1. Ann Eljenholm Nichols, The Bodleian Library, Oxford, [pt.] 1: MSS Additional-Digby (2000); 2. Lynda Dennison et al., The Bodleian Library, Oxford, [pt.] 2: MSS Dodsworth-Marshall (2001); 3. Lynda Dennison, Michael T. Orr and Kathleen L. Scott, The Bodleian Library, Oxford, [pt.] 3: MSS e Musaeo-Wood (2002); 4. Martha W. Driver and Michael T. Orr, US Libraries. New York City. Columbia University [Grolier Club, Morgan Library, Academy of Medicine Library, New York Public Library]-Union Theological Seminary (2007); 5. Kathleen L. Scott, British Library I: MSS Additional and Egerton (2014); 6. Ann Eljenholm Nichols, Cambridge I: Christ’s College, Clare College, Corpus Christi College, Emmanuel College, Gonville and Caius College and the Fitzwilliam Museum (2019); 7. Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Welsh Manuscripts and English Manuscripts in Wales: National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Bangor University, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Cardiff City Library, Flintshire Record Office, British Library, London, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Shrewsbury School, Library Company of Philadelphia (2011); 8. Lynda Dennison, Oxford College Libraries I: All Souls College, Balliol College, Brasenose College, Christ Church, Corpus Christi College, Exeter College, Hertford College, Jesus College, Keble College, Lady Margaret Hall, Lincoln College (2018); 9. Ann Eljenholm Nichols and Holly James-Maddocks, Cambridge II (2019).
By Library:
London, British Library: Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
Oxford, Bodleian Library:
J. J. G. Alexander and Otto Pächt, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1966-73). WorldCat 1. German, Dutch, Flemish, French and Spanish Schools (1966); 2. Italian School (1970); 3. British, Irish, and Icelandic Schools, with addenda to vols. 1 and 2 (1973); 4. Bruce C. Barker-Benfield, Concordance of Bodleian Shelf-marks for Vols.1-3. WorldCat
Oxford College Libraries:
J. J. G. Alexander and Elżbieta Temple, Illuminated Manuscripts in Oxford College Libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor Institution (Oxford, 1985). WorldCat
France
Patrimoine numérique: Catalogue des collections numerisées: Base Enluminures: Collection(s) liée(s). Linked list of digitized collections by library.
Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France, gen. ed. Franc̨ois Avril, J. J. G. Alexander, and Christian Heck (London, 1996-2015). WorldCat 1. Walter Cahn, Romanesque Manuscripts: The Twelfth Century, 2 vols. (1996); 2. Alison Stones, Gothic Manuscripts, 1260-1320, 2 vols. (2014); 3. Myra Dickman Orth, Renaissance Manuscripts: The Sixteenth Century, 2 vols. (2015).
François Bœspflug et al., Le Moyen Âge en lumière: Manuscrits enluminés des bibliothèques de France, gen. ed. Jacques Dalarun (Paris, 2012). WorldCat
By Library:
Corpus des manuscrits enluminés des collections publiques des départements (Paris, 1991- ). 1. Yolanta Załuska et al.,Manuscrits enluminés de Dijon (1991) WorldCat ; 2. Caroline Heid-Guillaume and Anne Ritz, Manuscrits médiévaux de Chambéry: textes et enluminures (1998). WorldCat
Corpus des manuscrits enluminés du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance conservés en France. Exhibition catalogues to date: Trésors enluminés des musées de France: pays de la Loire et Centre, ed. Pascale Charron, Marc-Édouard Gautier, and Pierre-Gilles Girault (Angers, 2013) WorldCat ; Trésors enluminés de Normandie: une (re)découverte, ed. Nicolas Hatot and Marie Jacob (Rennes, 2016). WorldCat
Databases:
Initiale. Catalogue de manuscrits enluminés. Digital catalogue of illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages. Focuses on public libraries in France other than the Bibliothèque nationale. A new site, Biblissima: Prototype Initiale-Mandragore, aggregates the Initiale database with MANDRAGORE (following item).
MANDRAGORE, base iconographique du département des manuscrits (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris).
Integrated Access to BnF Mandragore and KB Illuminated Manuscripts Collections
Liber Floridus: Les manuscrits médiévaux enluminés des bibliothèques de l’enseignement supérieur
Enluminures. Database of French municipal libraries.
Manuscripta Mediaevalia Datenbank.
Germany and “Germanic” Regions
Manuscrits enluminés d’origine germanique conservés au Département des manuscrits et à la Réserve des Imprimés de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris, 1995- ). 1. [pt. 1], François Avril, Claudia Rabel, and Isabelle Delaunay, Xe-XIVe siècle; WorldCat 1. [pt. 2], Laure Rioust, XVe siècle (2017). WorldCat
By Library:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich:
Katalog der illuminierten Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München (Munich, 1990- ). WorldCat 1. Katharina Bierbrauer, Die vorkarolingischen und karolingischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek; 2. Elisabeth Klemm, Die ottonischen und frühromanischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek; 3. Elisabeth Klemm, Die romanischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, Teil 1: Die Bistümer Regensburg, Passau und Salzburg; Teil 2: Die Bistümer Freising und Augsburg. Verschiedene Deutsche Provenienzen; 4. Elisabeth Klemm, Die illuminierten Handschriften des 13. Jahrhunderts deutscher Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek; 5. Béatrice Hernad and Andreas Weiner, Die gotischen Handschriften deutscher Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, Teil 1: Vom späten 13. bis zur Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts; 6. Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt, Die illuminierten Handschriften italienischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, Teil 1: Vom 10. bis zur Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts; Teil 2: Von der Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts bis um 1540; 8. Marianne Reuter, Die Codices iconographici der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, Teil 1: Die Handschriften des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts.
Elisabeth Klemm, Die illuminierten Handschriften des 13. Jahrhunderts deutscher Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (Wiesbaden, 1998). WorldCat
BSB-CodIcon Online. Online catalogue of the Codices iconographici (“illuminated manuscripts with no text or merely explanatory text”) in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.
German-language Manuscripts:
Deutschsprachige illustrierte Handschriften des Mittelalters. Includes a database of secondary literature.
Hella Frühmorgen-Voss and Norbert H. Ott, Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters, 7 vols., ed. Ulrike Bodemann et al. (Munich, 1986-2017). WorldCat .
Hungary
Ilona Berkovits, Illuminated Manuscripts in Hungary, XI-XVI Centuries, trans. Zsuzsanna Horn (New York, 1969). WorldCat
Ilona Berkovits, Illuminated Manuscripts from the Library of Matthias Corvinus, trans. Zsuzsanna Horn (Budapest, 1964). WorldCat
Iberia
Spain:
Digital Catalog of Illuminated Manuscripts of the Spanish Codices of the 10th-12th Century
By Library:
François Avril et al., Manuscrits enluminés de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Manuscrits de la Péninusle Ibérique (Paris, 1982). WorldCat
Beatus Manuscripts:
Peter K. Klein, “Illustrated Beatus Manuscripts,” Oxford Bibliographies
John Williams. The Illustrated Beatus: A Corpus of the Illustrations of the Commentary on the Apocalypse, 5 vols. (London, 1994-2003). WorldCat
Italy
By Library:
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France:
Manuscrits enluminés d’origine italienne du département des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, ed. François Avril and Marie-Thérèse Gousset et al. (1980-2012). WorldCat 1: Manuscrits enluminées d’origine italienne, 1: Vie-XIIe siècles; 2: XIIIe siècle; 3: XIVe siècle, [pt.] 1. Lombardie, Ligurie; [pt.] 2, Émilie-Vénétie.
Oxford, Bodleian Library:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 2: Italian School (Oxford, 1970). WorldCat
Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum:
Thomas Kren and Kurt Barstow, Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2nd ed. (Los Angeles, 2015). WorldCat
Low Countries
Ilona Hans-Collas and Pascal Schandel, with Hanno Wijsman, Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux (Paris, 2009- ). 1. Manuscrits de Louis de Bruges (2010). WorldCat Table of Contents.
Judith H. Oliver, Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (ca. 1250–ca. 1330), 2 vols., Corpus van verluchte handschriften uit de Nederlanden, 2-3 (Leuven, 1988). WorldCat
Luxury Bound: A Corpus of Manuscripts Illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550)
Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art KU Leuven. “The focus on medieval and early modern art from the Low Countries in a European perspective.”
By Library:
Belgium
Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus:
Lieve Watteeuw and Catherine Reynolds, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts 20, Low Countries Series 15 (Leuven, 2013). WorldCat
Brussels, KBR:
Camille Gaspar and Frédéric Lyna, Les principaux manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique(Brussels, 1937). WorldCat
Leuven-Louvain, University Libraries:
Lieve Watteeuw and Catherine Reynolds, Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Universities of Leuven – Louvain (Leuven, 2019).
The Netherlands
Anne S. Korteweg, Inventaris van de middeleeuwse verluchte handschriften in openbare collecties in Nederland en van Noordnederlandse verluchte handschriften in buitenlandse collecties. Voorlopige uitg. Afl. 1 (‘s-Gravenhage, 1988). WorldCat
Illuminated Manuscripts in Dutch Collections. An Inventory compiled by the Alexander Willem Byvanck Foundation. Preliminary Precursor, part 1, 2nd rev. ed. (1991); Preliminary Precursor, part 2-3 (The Hague, 1993). WorldCat
By Library:
The Hagues, Koninklijke Bibliotheek:
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Middeleeuwse Verluchte Handschriften / Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
Ed van der Vlist, Schitterende Schatten: Verluchte handschriften in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Amsterdam, 2011). WorldCat
Utrecht, University Library:
Koert van der Horst, Illuminated and Decorated Manuscripts in the University Library, Utrecht: An Illustrated Catalogue. (Cambridge, 1989). WorldCat
Willemijn van Klingeren, Tino Oudesluijs, and Bart Jaski, A Supplement to Koert van der Horst, Illuminated and Decorated Medieval Manuscripts in the University Library, Utrecht (1989), vol. 1: Manuscripts Acquired 1989-2011; Loose Manuscript Fragments (first section) (Utrecht, 2011). WorldCat
Anna Duijsings et al., Supplement to Koert van der Horst, Illuminated and Decorated Medieval Manuscripts in the University Library, Utrecht (1989), vol. 2: Loose Manuscripts Fragments (second section); Bound Maculature (first section) (Utrecht, 2011). WorldCat
Luxembourg
Blanche Weicherding-Goergen, Les Manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg (Luxembourg, 1968). WorldCat
Scandinavia
Denmark
M. Mackeprang and C. S. Petersen, Greek and Latin Illuminated Manuscripts, X-XIII Centuries, in Danish Collections (Copenhagen, 1921). WorldCat
Switzerland
Verzeichnis der illuminierten und illustrierten Handschriften in der Schweiz (codices.ch)
In codices.ch, in the field “Refine your search,” select “illuminated: Yes” (1231 hits).
By Library:
Bern, Burgerbibliothek:
Otto Homburger, Die illustrierten Handschriften der Burgerbibliothek Bern: Die vorkarolingischen and karolingischen Handschriften (Bern, 1962). WorldCat
United States
Ash, Lee, Subject Collections: A Guide to Special Book Collections and Subject Emphases As Reported by University, College, Public, and Special Libraries and Museums in the United States and Canada (New Providence NJ, 1993).
Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (Phoenix, 1988).
By Library:
Beineke Library, Yale University
Houghton Library, Harvard University
J. Paul Getty Museum:
J. Paul Getty Museum: Manuscripts
Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts (Los Angeles, 1997).
Huntington Library:
The Huntington Library: Medieval Manuscripts
C. W. Dutschke, Richard H. Rouse, et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library, 2 vols. (San Marino CA, 1999). WorldCat
Newberry Library:
Paul Henry Saenger. A Catalog of the Pre-1500 Western Manuscript Books at The Newberry Library (Chicago, 1989).
Manuscripts – European Manuscripts, Pre-1500 – New Acquisitions
Pierpont Morgan Library:
Pierpont Morgan Library: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.
Walters Art Museum:
Walters Art Museum: Manuscripts and Rare Books
The Digital Walters: Digitized Walters Manuscripts
Thematic
Repertorium of Manuscripts Illuminated by Women in Religious Communities of the Middle Ages
Martine Clouzot, Images de musiciens (1350-1500): Typologie, figurations et pratiques sociales (Turnhout, 2008).
By Script
Luxeuil:
David Ganz, “Texts and Scripts in Surviving Manuscripts in the Script of Luxeuil,” in Ireland and Europe in the Early Middle Ages: Texts and Transmission / Irland und Europa im früheren Mittelalter: Texte und Überlieferung, ed. Próinséas Ní Chatháin and Michael Richter (Dublin, 2002), pp. 186-204. WorldCat
Alemannian minuscule:
Natalie Maag, Alemannische Minuskel (744-846 n.Chr.): frühe Schriftkultur im Bodenseeraum und Voralpenland, Quellen und Untersuchungen zur lateinischen Philologie des Mittelalters 18 (Stuttgart, 2014). WorldCat
Visigothic:
Ainoa Castro, Littera Visigotica: Digital Archives
Augustin Millares Carlo, Corpus de códices visigóticos, 2 vols., ed. Manuel C. Díaz y Díaz et al. (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1999), I: Estudio; II: Album. WorldCat
Manuel C. Díaz y Díaz, Codices Visigoticos en la Monarquia Leonesa (Leon, 1983). WorldCat
Tironian Notes:
By Language
Armenian:
Bernard Couli, Répertoire des bibliothèques et des catalogues de manuscrits arméniens, Corpus Christianorum (Turnhout, 1992).
Armenian Studies: Armenian Manuscripts Online (UC Berkeley)
Eastern:
Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland
N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957). WorldCat
Catalogue of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220
Jonas: Répertoire des textes et manuscrits médiévaux en langue d’oc et d’oïl
Manuscripts of Medieval France with Vernacular Texts
Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters: Handschriftenarchiv
Handschriftencensus: Eine Bestandsaufnahme deutschsprachiger Handschriften des Mittelalters
Hebrew:
Benjamin Richter, Guide to Hebrew Manuscript Collections (Jerusalem, 1994).
Barbara Frank and Jörg Hartmann, Inventaire systématique des prémiers documents des langues romanes (Tübingen, 1997). WorldCat
David Djaparidzé and Pierre Pascal, Mediaeval Slavic Manuscripts: A Bibliography of Printed Catalogues (Cambridge MA, 1957). WorldCat
Syriac:
syri.ac: An Annotated Bibliography of Syriac Resources Online: Manuscript Catalogues
By Genre
The focus here is on manuscript catalogues and on reference works such as repertories of texts that will lead to secondary scholarship on manuscripts in each genre. Secondary scholarship is not listed except when the primary focus is on manuscripts, and then only very selectively. For further references, and for some genres not covered here, see the section “Auteurs et thèmes” in Dolbeau and Petitmengin, Indices Librorum, and the relevant entries in the following reference works:
Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms – Methods – Trends, ed. Albrecht Classen, 3 vols. (Berlin, 2011). WorldCat Print and online. Extensive coverage grouped under the headings “Main Topics and Debates of the Last Decades and Their Terminology and Results”; “Important Terms in Today’s Medieval Studies”; “Textual Genres in the Middle Ages”; “Key Figures in Medieval Studies from ca. 1650 to 1950.”
Handbook of Medieval Culture: Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages, 3 vols., ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin, 2016). WorldCat Print and online. Essays on various topics, from “Animals, Birds and Fish” to “Witchcraft and Superstition,” with brief bibliographies. Table of Contents.
F. A. C. Mantello and A. G. Rigg, ed., Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide (Washington, D.C., 1996). WorldCat Bibliographical essays on a wide range of topics; includes a section on “General Reference and Research Tools,” with a list of “Bibliographical Guides and Surveys,” pp. 22-31. The Table of Contents is complete on Google Books.
Alchemical
Bibliographies:
Claudia Kren, Alchemy in Europe: A Guide to Research (New York, 1990). WorldCat
Alan Pritchard, Alchemy: A Bibliography of English Language Writings, 2nd ed., Version 2.02, January 2008 (CD-ROM). [untraced, not in WorldCat]; 1st ed. (New York, 1980) WorldCat
John Ferguson, Bibliotheca chemica: A Bibliography of Books on Alchemy, Chemistry, and Pharmaceutics (London, 1954). WorldCat
Claude Gagnon, “Recherche bibliographique sur l’Alchimie médiévale occidentale,” Cahiers d’Études Médiévales 2 (1974), 155-99.
Medieval Alchemy: A Selected Bibliography (Marginalia)
Adam McLean, Bibliography: Information about Alchemical Books and Manuscripts
Volker Fritz Brüning, Bibliographie der alchemistischen Literatur. Die alchemistischen Druckwerke von der Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst bis zum Jahre 1690, 3 vols. (Munich, 2004-06). WorldCat
Surveys of Scholarship:
Thomas Willard, “Astrology, Alchemy and other Occult Sciences,” in Classen, Handbook of Medieval Culture, pp.
Repertories:
Robert Halleux, Les textes alchimiques, Typologie des sources du Moyen Âge occidental 32 (Turnhout, 1979). WorldCat
Databases:
Adam McLean, Database of Alchemical Manuscripts
Studies:
Gareth Roberts, The Mirror of Alchemy: Alchemical Ideas and Images in Manuscripts and Books from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century (London, 1994). WorldCat
Catalogues:
Comprehensive:
James A. Corbett, Catalogue des manuscrits alchimiques latin antérieurs au XVIIe siècle, 2 vols. (Brussels, 1939-51). WorldCat
By Region/Country:
Dorothea Waley Singer, Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Alchemical Manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland, Dating from before the XVI Century, 3 vols. (Brussels, 1928-31). WorldCat
William Jerome Wilson, “Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Alchemical Manuscripts in the United States and Canada.” Osiris 6 (1939), 1-836. WorldCat
By Library:
Günther Goldschmidt, “Katalogisierung der mittelalterlichen medizinischen und alchemistischen Handschriften der Zentralbibliothek Zürich,” Gesnerus 2 (1945), 151-62.
Hartmut Broszinski, “Die Katalogisierung der Kasseler alchemistischen Handschriften. Ein Bericht,” in Die Alchemie in der europäischen Kultur- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, ed. Christoph Meinel, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 32 (Wiesbaden, 1986), pp. 19-31. WorldCat
Lynn Thorndike, “Some Alchemical Manuscripts at Bologna and Florence,” Ambix 5 (1956), 85-110.
Artes Liberales
See also under the heading Scientific.
Bibliographies:
Artes Bibliographie: Werkgroep Middelnederlandse Artesliteratuur (WEMAL). Annotated (in Dutch). Continued by the following item.
Artes Bibliographie vanaf 2103: Een nieuwe start voor de artes-bibliografie. With subdivisions: Medioneerlandistiek/Artes liberales algemeen / wereldbeeld / leef- en denkwereld; Quadrivium; Artes Mechanicae’; Artes Magicae.
Surveys of Scholarship:
Carrie Griffin, “Scientific Texts: Artes Liberales and Artes Mechanicae (with Emphasis on Anglophone Research),” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 2069-77.
Romedio Schmitz-Esser, “Astronomy,” in Handbook of Medieval Culture, ed. Classen, pp.
Studies:
Marion Dolan, Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts (2017).
Catalogues:
Ludwig Schuba, Die Quadriviums-Handschriften der Codices Palatini Latini in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek, Kataloge der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg 2 (Wiesbaden, 1992). WorldCat
Ptolemæus Arabus et Latinus. See Latin Manuscripts.
Astrological and Mythological
Bibliographies:
History of Astronomy: Archives and Libraries
By Library:
David Juste, Les manuscrits astrologiques conservés à la Staatsbibliothek de Munich, Catalogus codicum astrologorum latinorum 1 (Paris, 2011). WorldCat
David Juste, Les manuscrits astrologiques latins conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Catalogus codicum astrologorum latinorum 2 (Paris, 2015). WorldCat
Illuminated:
Fritz Saxl, Hans Meier, Harry Bober, and Patrick McGurk, Catalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages, 4 vols. in 5 (Heidelberg and London, 1915-66). WorldCat Covers libraries in Rome; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek; libraries in England; and libraries in Italy.
Studies:
Sophie Page, Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts
Bestiaries
Bibliographies:
See the separate bibliography on Medieval Encyclopedias, Bestiaries, Lapidaries, and Herbals.
Surveys of Scholarship:
Renee Ward, “Bestiaries, Aviaries, Physiologus,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 1634-42.
Studies:
Francesco Sbordone, “La tradizione manoscritta del Physiologo latino,” Athenaeum n.s. 27 (1949), 246-80.
Websites:
The Medieval Bestiary: Manuscripts
Latin Bestiary Manuscripts in the British Library
Bestiaire (Arlima)
Bibliographies:
For fuller listings see the separate bibliography on The Bible and Its Interpretation,
Databases:
Guida informatica al manoscritto patristico latino. Searchable by patristic author, work, modern author, title, city, library or archive, shelfmark, and date.
Repertories:
Friedrich Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum medii aevi, 11 vols. (Madrid,1950- ). WorldCat Vol. 1 covers the Bible itself, including apocryphal books; vols. 2-5 cover commentaries by named author; vols. 6-7 cover anonymous commentaries, listed by the cities in which the manuscripts survive; vols. 8-9 are supplements organized the same way as vols. 1-7; vols. 10-11 consist of a register of Initia. The online version allows full-text as well as various field searches. In the field “Bibliothek,” clicking on the tab “Auswahl” brings up a list of libraries cited. Note that searching library names in Volltext-Suche will not yield results (One can search and get results for “Albi,” for example, but a search for “Albi, Bibliothèque municipale” will not yield any hits, even though that is the form of the library name given in the “Bibliothek: Auswahl” list). See in general Stefan Büdenbender and Sabine Harwardt, “Chasing DTDs. The Digital Edition of the Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi,” Literary and Linguistic Computing 20 (Supp. 1) (2005), 47-57.
Series:
TRAMP: La Tradizione Medievale dei Padri. Accessible online via Mirabile database.
Tradito Patrum (Brepols series)
Major Catalogues:
Wilhelm Weinberger, Catalogus catalogorum. Verzeichnis der bibliotheken, die ältere handschriften lateinischer kirchenschriftsteller enthalten (Vienna, 1902). WorldCat
By Region/Country:
Britain:
Heinrich Schenkl, Bibliotheca Patrum Latinorum Brittanica, 3 vols. (Vienna, 1891; repr. in 1 vol., 1969). WorldCat Reprinted from a series of articles in the Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna), phil.-hist. Klasse 121-24, 126-27, 131, 133, 136-37, 139, 143, 150 and 157. Cumulative author- and subject-indices in the final volume.
Karl F. W. Zangemeister, Bericht über die im Auftrage der Kirchenväter-commission unternommene Durchforschung der Biblitheken Englands (Vienna, 1877). WorldCat
Italy:
August Reifferscheid, Bibliotheca patrum latinorum Italica, 2 vols. (Vienna, 1865-71). WorldCat Reprinted from a series in the Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna), phil.-hist. Klasse, 1865-1872.
Spain:
Gustav Loewe and Wilhelm von Hartel, Bibliotheca Patrum Latinorum Hispaniensis (Vienna, 1887; repr. Hildesheim, 1973). Reprinted from a series in the Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna), phil.-hist. Klasse 111-113 (1886). WorldCat
Switzerland:
e-codices: Virtuelle Handbibliothek der Schweiz
Karl Halm, Verzeichniss der älteren Handschriften lateinischer Kirchenväter in den Bibliotheken der Schweiz (Vienna, 1865). Reprinted from Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna), phil.-hist. Klasse 50 (1865), 107-60. WorldCat Supplemented by following item.
By Library:
Catalogues:
Catalogues of manuscript collections of major libraries often group biblical and patristic manuscripts separately. There are also separate bibliographies of specific collections, e.g.:
Studies:
By Period:
Burton van Name Edwards, The Manuscript Transmission of Carolingian Biblical Commentaries
By Author:
Augustine;
Manfred Oberleitner, et al., Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus (Vienna, 1969- ).WorldCat Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Klasse 263, 267, etc. 1. Italien: 1. Werkverzeichnis; 2. Verzeichnis nach Bibliotheken. 2. Grossbritannien und Irland: 1. Werkverzeichnis; 2. Verzeichnis nach Bibliotheken. 3. Polen. Anhang: Die skandinavischen Staaten, Dänemark, Finnland, Schweden. 4. Spanien und Portugal. 5. Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Westberlin: 1. Werkverzeichnis; 2. Verzeichnis nach Bibliotheken. 6. Österreich: 1. Werkverzeichnis; 2. Verzeichnis nach Bibliotheken: 7. Tschechische Republik und Slowakische Republik: 1. Werkverzeichnis; 2. Verzeichnis nach Bibliotheken. 8. Belgien, Luxemburg und Niederlande: 1. Werkverzeichnis; 2. Verzeichnis nach Bibliotheken. 9. Schweiz: 1. Werkverzeichnis; 2. Verzeichnis nach Bibliotheken. 10. Ostdeutschland Berlin: 1. Werkverzeichnis; 2. Verzeichnis nach Bibliotheken. 11. Russland, Slowenien und Ungarn.
Jerome:
Bernard Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana Manuscripta: La tradition manuscrite des oeuvres de Saint Jérôme, 2 vols. in 4 parts, Instrumenta Patristica 4 (Steenbrugge, 1969). WorldCat
Gregory the Great:
Bibliotheca Gregorii Magni Manuscripta. Censimento dei manoscritti di Gregorio Magno e della sua fortuna (Epitomi, Florilegi, Agiografie, Liturgia) / Census of Manuscripts of Gregory the Great and His Fortune (Epitomes, Anthologies, Hagiographies, Liturgy), ed. Fabiana Boccini et al., Biblioteche e Archivi (Florence, 2015- ). WorldCat 1. Aachen–Chur (2015); 2. Chur-Grenoble (2018).
La trasmissione dei testi latini del Medioevo / Mediaeval Latin Texts and their Transmission. Gregorius I Papa, Te.Tra. 5. ed. Lucia Castaldi, Millennio Medievale 98 (Florence, 2013). WorldCat
Pseudonymous Writings:
Johannes Machielsen, Clavis Patristica Pseudepigraphorum Medii Aevi, 3 vols. in 5 (Turnhout, 1990-2003). WorldCat IA-B: Opera Homiletica (1990); IIA: Theologica – Exegetica (1994); Monastica; IIB: Ascetica – Monastica(1994); IIIA: Artes Liberales (2003).
Classical
Bibliographies:
For fuller listings, see the separate bibliography on Classical Literature in the Middle Ages.
Pierre Petitmengin and Birger Munk Olsen, “Bibliographie de la reception de la littérature classique du IXe au XVe siècle,” in The Classical Tradition in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Proceedings of the Second European Science Foundation Workshop on “The Reception of Classical Texts” (Florence, Certosa del Galluzzo, 26-27 June 1992), ed. Claudio Leonardi and Birger Munk Olsen, Biblioteca di Medioevo Latino 15 (Spoleto, 1995), pp. 199-274. WorldCat See the section “Les manuscripts: domaine latin.”
Karsten Friis-Jensen, Birger Munk Olsen, and Ole Langwitz Smith, “Bibliography of Classical Scholarship in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance (9th to 15th Centuries),” in Medieval and Renaissance Scholarship. Proceedings of the Second European Science Foundation Workshop on the Classical Tradition in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (London, The Warburg Institute, 27-28 November 1992), ed. Nicholas Mann and Birger Munk Olsen, Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 21 (Leiden, 1997), pp. 197-251. WorldCat
Surveys of Scholarship:
Birger Munk Olsen, “Chronique des manuscrits classiques latins (IXe-XIIe siecles),” Revue d’histoire des textes 21 (1991), 37-76; 24 (1994), 199-249; 30 (2000), 123-88; 32 (2002), 73-106. WorldCat
Repertories:
REMACCLA: Repertorium Manuscriptorum et Commentariorum Auctorum Classicorum Latinorum
Max Manitius, Handschriften antiker autoren in mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskatalogen, Beihefte zum Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 67 (Leipzig, 1935). WorldCat
Catalogues:
Elisabeth Pellegrin, Les manuscrits classiques latins de la Bibliothèque Vaticane, 3 vols. in 4 pts., Documents, études et répertoires publiés par l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (Paris, 1975-2010). WorldCat
Lisardo Rubio Fernández, Catálogo de los manuscritos clásicos latinos existentes en España (Madrid, 1984). WorldCat
Collete Jeudy and Yves-François Riou, Les manuscrits classiques latins des bibliothèques de France, Documents, études et répertoires publiés par l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (Paris, 1989- ). WorldCat
Studies:
Birger Munk Olsen, L’étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 4 vols. in 6 pts., Documents, études et répertoires publiés par l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (Paris, 1982-2014). WorldCat
Birger Munk Olsen, “Les classiques latins dans les florilèges médiévaux antérieurs au XIIIe siècle,” Revue d’histoire des textes 9 (1979), 47-121. WorldCat
Birger Munk Olsen, “Les florilèges d’auteurs classiques,” in Les genres littéraires dans les sources théologiques et philosophiques médiévales. Définition, critique et exploitation. Actes du Colloque international de Louvain-la-Neuve, 25-27 mai 1981 (Louvain, 1982), pp. 151-64. WorldCat
Irene O’Daly, “The Classical Revival,” in The European Book in the Twelfth Century, ed. Erik Kwakkel and Rodney Thomson, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 101 (Cambridge, 2018), pp. 240-58. WorldCat
Computistical/Calendrical:
Bibliographies:
Oloph Odenius, “Cisiojani Latini: Neue Beiträge zur Bibliographie der metrischen Kalendarien des Mittelalters,” Arv15 (1959), 61-154.
Surveys of Scholarship:
Camarin M. Porter, “Time Measurement and Chronology in Medieval Studies,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 1350-68.
Repertories:
Fragmentary
Fragmentarium: Digital Research Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments
Fragmentology: A Journal for the Study of Medieval Manuscript Fragments
Glossarial
Bibliographies:
Florent A. Tremblay, Bibliotheca Lexicologiae Medii Aevi, 10 vols. (Lewiston NY, 1988). WorldCat Volumes 7-8 cover lexicographical manuscripts.
Les gloses. Laboratoire des savoirs du haut Moyen Âge: Bibliographie
Corpus de textes linguistiques fondamentaux: Bibliographie. In the field “domaine” select “Grammaires latines médiévales.”
Surveys of Scholarship:
Frans van Liere, “Glosses,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 1785-91.
Catalogues:
Anne Grondeux and Franck Cinato, Liber glossarum digital. Includes a Catalogue des manuscrits.
Collections of Essays:
Les manuscrits des lexiques et glossaires de l’antiquité tardive à la fin du Moyen Âge. Actes du Colloque international organisé par le Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture (Erice, 23-30 septembre 1994), ed. Jacqueline Hamesse, Textes et études du Moyen âge 4 (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1996). WorldCat
Studies:
Adriana Della Casa, “Les glossaires et les traités de grammaire du Moyen Âge,” in La lexicographie du latin médiéval et ses rapports avec les recherches actuelles sur la civilisation du Moyen Âge, ed. Yves Lefèvre (Paris, 1981), pp. 35-46. WorldCat
Websites:
Les gloses: Laboratoire des savoirs du haut Moyen Âge.
Latin–Vernacular Glosses:
Repertories:
Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften, ed. Rolf Bergmann and Stefanie Stricker, 6 vols. (Berlin, 2005). WorldCat
BStK Online. Datenbank der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften
Early Irish Glossaries Database
Américo Castro, Glosarios latino-españoles de la edad media, Biblioteca de filología hispánica 3 (Madrid, 1936; repr. 1991). WorldCat
Grammatical
Repertories:
James E. G. Zetzel, Critics, Compilers, and Commentators: An Introduction to Roman Philology, 200 BCE – 800 CE(Oxford, 2018).
Robert A. Kaster, “Prosopography,” in Kaster, Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity (Berkeley CA, 1988), pp. 233-440.
Collective Editions:
Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum, 7 vols., ed. Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1855-80). A version of the CGL at the Corpus Corporum updates some of Keil’s texts with more recent editions.
Catalogues:
G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts (Stuttgart, 1981). WorldCat
Paolo Degni and Alessandra Peri, “Per un catalogo dei codici grammaticali altomedievali,” in Manuscripts and Traditions of Grammatical Texts from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Proceedings of a Conference held at Erice, 16-23 October 1997, as the 11th Course of International School for the Study of Written Records, ed. Paolo De Paolis, Mario De Nonno, and Loius Holtz (Cassino, 2000), I, 719-45. WorldCat
Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, “Artes Grammaticae” in frammenti: I testi grammaticali latini e bilingui greco-latini su papiro, Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker 17 (Berlin, 2015). WorldCat
Studies:
Adriana Della Casa, “Les glossaires et les traités de grammaire du Moyen Âge,” in La lexicographie du latin médiéval et ses rapports avec les recherches actuelles sur la civilisation du Moyen Âge. Paris 18-21 octobre 1978, ed. Yves Lefebvre (Paris, 1981), pp. 35-46. WorldCat
Hagiographical
See the separate bibliography on Hagiography.
Repertories:
Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquae et mediae aetatis, 2 vols. Subsidia hagiographica 6 (Brussels, 1898-1901)[BHL]. WorldCat Vol. 1; Vol. 2. With a Supplément, Subsidia hagiographica 12 (Brussels, 1911) WorldCat ; and a Novum Supplementum, ed. Henryk Fros, Subsidia hagiographica 70 (Brussels, 1986). WorldCat ; no. 12; no. 70. See also Henryk Fros, “Inédits non recensés dans la BHL,” Analecta Bollandiana 102 (1984), 163-96; 355-80. WorldCat Now incorporated into the online database Clavis Clavium (beta version).
François Halkin, Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca, 3rd ed., Subsidia hagiographica 8A, 3 vols. (Brussels, 1957) WorldCat [BHG]: Halkin, Auctarium Bibliothecae hagiographicae graecae, Subsidia hagiographica 47 (Brussels, 1969) WorldCat ; Halkin, Novum auctarium Bibliotheca hagiographicae graecae, Subsidia hagiographica 65 (Brussels, 1984). WorldCat
Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis, ed. Paul Peeters, Subsidia hagiographica 10 (Brussels, 1910). WorldCat
Databases:
The BHL and BHG are now incorporated into the online database Clavis Clavium (beta version).
Index analytique des Catalogues de manuscrits hagiographiques latins publiés par la Société des Bollandistes, comp. Michel Trigalet et al. Online searchable database of the Bollandists’ catalogues of hagiographical manuscripts (see below).
Catalogues:
For a list of published catalogues by city and library see Dubois and Lemaitre, Sources et méthodes, pp. 27-32.
Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum Bibliothecae Regiae Bruxellensis: Pars I. Codices Latini membranei, 2 vols. Subsidia hagiographica 1 (Brussels, 1886-1889). WorldCat
Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum latinorum antiquiorum saeculo XVI qui asservantur in Bibliotheca nationali Parisiensi, 3 vols., Subsidia Hagiographica 2 (Brussels, 1889-1893). WorldCat . Vol. 1; Vol. 2; Vol. 3; Indices.
Albert Poncelet, Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum latinorum bibliothecarum romanarum praeter quam Vaticanae, Subsidia hagiographica 9 (Brussels, 1909). WorldCat
Albert Poncelet, Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum latinorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae, Subsidia hagiographica 11 (Brussels, 1910). WorldCat
Antonella Mazzon, Manoscritti agiografici latini conservati a Padova: Biblioteche Antoniana, Civica e Universitaria, Quaderni di Hagiographica 2 (Florence, 2003). WorldCat
Rossana E. Guglielmetti, I testi agiografici latini nei codice della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Quaderni di Hagiographica 5 (Florence, 2007). WorldCat
Historiographical (Narrative)
Roman Historians:
Lars Boje Mortensen, “The Diffusion of Roman Histories in the Middle Ages. A List of Orosius, Eutropius, Paulus Diaconus, and Landolfus Sagax Manuscripts,” Filologia mediolatina 6-7 (1999-2000), 101-200.
Birger Munk Olsen, “La diffusion et l’étude des historiens antiques au XIIe siècle,” in Medieval Antiquity, Mediaevalia Lovaniensia Series 1, Studia XXIV (Leiden, 1995), pp. 21-43.
Chronicles:
Graeme Dunphy, “Chronicles,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 1714-22.
Repertories:
Janos Bak and Ivan Jurkovič, Chronicon. Medieval Narrative Sources: A Chronological Guide to Medieval Narrative Sources with Introductory Essays, Brepols Essays in European Culture 5 (Turnhout, 2013). “By narrative sources we mean writings that contain reports on matters (events) their authors found worth remembering and passing on … We include texts traditionally called annals, chronicles, and histories, then some historical sagas, biographies, and the rare autobiographies” (pp. 141-42). Lists texts in chronological order with reference to editions, translations, and online resources. WorldCat
Repertorium Chronicarum: A Bibliography of Medieval Latin Chronicles. Click on “Locations” for an alphabetical list of libraries.
Michael McCormick, Les annales du haut moyen âge, Typologie des sources du Moyen Âge occidental 14 (Turnhout, 1975). WorldCat
Karl H. Krüger, Die Universalchroniken, Typologie des sources du Moyen Âge occidental 16 (Turnhout, 1976). WorldCat
E. M. C. Van Houts, Local and Regional Chronicles, Typologie des sources du Moyen Âge occidental 74 (Turnhout, 1995). WorldCat
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries:
The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, 2 vols., gen. ed. Graeme Dunphy and Christian Bratu (New York, 2010). WorldCat Online version updated in 2014 and 2016. Includes in vol. 1 an Overview of Articles (Generic, Thematic, and Alphabetical), and in vol. 2 an Index of Works and Authors; General Index; Index of Geographical Names; Index of Manuscripts.
Histories and Surveys:
R. W. Burgess and M. Kulikowski, Mosaics of Time: The Latin Chronicle Traditions from the First Century BC to the Sixth Century AD, Volume I, A Historical Introduction to the Chronicle Genre from its Origins to the High Middle Ages, Studies in the Early Middle Ages 33 (Turnhout, 2013). WorldCat
Homiletic
For fuller references see the separate bibliography on Sermons and Homilies.
Bibliographies:
George Ferzoco and Carolyn Muessig, “Bibliography,” in The Sermon, ed. Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Typologie des sources du Moyen Âge occidental 81-83 (Turnhout, 2000), pp. 19-142. WorldCat
Major Catalogues:
Réginald Grégoire, Homeliaires liturgiques médiévaux: analyse de manuscrits, Biblioteca degli Studi medievali 12 (Spoleto, 1980). WorldCat
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Catalogue Général, VII: (Nos. 3776 à 3835) Homéliaires (Paris, 1988). WorldCat .
For some other major catalogues with extensive homiletic materials see Berlioz, Identifier sources, p. 206.
Repertories:
John Machielsen, Clavis Patristica Pseudepigraphorum Medii Aevi, IA-B: Homiletica (Turnhout, 1990). WorldCat
Collections of Essays:
Raymond Étaix, Homéliaires patristiques latins. Receuil d’études de manuscrits médiévaux, Collection des études augustiniennes, Série Moyen-Age et temps modernes 29 (Paris, 1994). WorldCat
Legal
Introductions, Guides, and Handbooks:
Hiram Kümper, “Legal Texts,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 1878-81.
Scott Taylor, “Law in the Middle Ages,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 771-87.
Repertories:
Gero Dolezalek, Verzeichnis der Handschriften zum römischen Recht bis 1600: Materialsammlung, System und Program für elektronische Datenverarbeitung, 4 vols. in 2 (Frankfurt, 1972). WorldCat . Now incorporated into the database Manuscripta juridica.
Gero Dolezalek and Laurent Mayali, Repertorium manuscriptorum veterum Codicis Iustiniani, 2 vols. (Frankfurt am Main, 1985). WorldCat
Manoscritti giuridici medievali
Brendan McManus, Medieval Juristic Manuscripts
Lotte Kéry, Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140): A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature (Washington, D.C., 1999). WorldCat
Catalogues:
Reinhard Elze and Stephan Kuttner, A Catalogue of Canon and Roman Law Manuscripts in the Vatican Library(Vatican City, 1986). WorldCat
Illuminating the Law: Legal Manuscripts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
CIRSFID Irnerio. Digitized manuscripts from the Reale Collegio di Spagna in Bologna.
Collections of Essays:
Rechtshandschriften des deutschen Mittelalters: Produktionsorte und Importwege, ed. Patrizia Carmassi and Gisela Drossbach, Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien 29 (Wiesbaden, 2015). WorldCat Table of Contents.
Charles Radding and Antonio Ciaralli, The Corpus Iuris Civilis in the Middle Ages. Manuscripts and Transmission from the Sixth century to the Juristic Revival (Leiden, 2007).
Histories and Surveys:
Patrick Wormald, “Law Books,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 1: c. 400-1100, ed. Richard Gameson (Cambridge, 2011), pp. 525-36. WorldCat
Charles Radding, “Law Books,” in The European Book in the Twelfth Century, ed. Erik Kwakkel and Rodney Thomson, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 101 (Cambridge, 2018), pp. 293-310. WorldCat
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 3: 1400-1557, ed. Lotte Hellinga and J. B. Trapp (Cambridge, 1999). Includes R. H. Helmholz, “The Canon Law,” pp. 387-98; Alan Wijffels, “The Civil Law,” pp. 399-410; and J. H. Baker, “The Books of the Common Law,” pp. 411-32. WorldCat
Websites:
Gero Dolezalek, Medieval Manuscripts of Canon Law and Roman Law. Includes links to several major resources, including the database Manuscripta juridica.
Rechtshistorie. A Gateway to Legal History: Medieval Law
Logical
Catalogues:
L. M. de Rijk and E.P. Bos, Medieval Logical Manuscripts
Studies:
John Marenbon and Caterina Tarlazzi, “Logic,” in The European Book in the Twelfth Century, ed. Erik Kwakkel and Rodney Thomson, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 101 (Cambridge, 2018), pp. 215-39. WorldCat
Liturgical
See also the separate bibliographies on Medieval Liturgy and Sermons and Homilies. For notated manuscripts, most of which are liturgical see below under the sub-section Musical.
Database:
Catalogues:
N. Sacksteder, “A Provisional List of Inventories of Latin Liturgical Manuscripts and Incunabula of the Middle Ages,” Ephemerides Liturgicae 99 (1985), WorldCat . Lists catalogues by Country, City, and Library; also includes sections on General Catalogues, Religious Orders, and Specific Liturgical Books.
Dubois and Lemaitre, Sources et méthodes, pp. 67-74. WorldCat
Klaus Gamber, Codices Liturgici Latini Antiquiores, 2 vols., Spicilegii Friburgensis Subsidia 1 (Fribourg, 1968). WorldCat The standard catalogue for liturgical manuscripts up to c.a. 800. Ergänzerungs- und Registerband, ed. B. Baroffio et al. (Fribourg, 1988). WorldCat
Richard Pfaff, “Liturgical Books,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 1: c. 400-1100, ed. Richard Gameson (Cambridge, 2011), pp. 449-59. WorldCat
Nicolas Bell, “Liturgical Books,” in The European Book in the Twelfth Century, ed. Erik Kwakkel and Rodney Thomson, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 101 (Cambridge, 2018), pp. 175-91. WorldCat
B. Baroffio, “I manoscritti liturgici,” Guida a una descrizione uniforme dei manoscritti e al loro censimento, ed. V. Jemolo and M. Morelli (Rome, 1990), pp. 145-200. WorldCat
V. Fiala and W. Irtenkauf, “Versuch einer Liturgischen Nomenklatur,” Zur Katalogisierung Mittelalterlicher und Neuerer Handschriften, ed. Clemens Köttelwesch (Frankfurt am Main, 1963), pp. 105-37. WorldCat
Theodor Klauser, “Repertorium liturgicum und Liturgischer Spezialkatalog, Vorschläge zum Problem der liturgischen Handschriften,” in Klauser, Gesammelte Arbeiten zur Liturgiegeschichte, Kirchengeschichte und christlichen Archäologie (Münster, 1974). WorldCat
Hanns Bohatta, Liturgische Bibliographie des XV. Jahrhunderts mit Ausnahme der Missale und Livres d’heures(Vienna, 1911; repr. 1961). WorldCat
Base de manuscrits internet. Database of liturgical manuscripts on the internet (Excel spreadsheet, 7/1/2011).
Repertorio manoscritti liturgici ambrosiani
See also Boyle, Medieval Latin Palaeography, index s.v. “Liturgy, books of.”
By Region/Country (including Individual Libraries):
Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie. Includes entries (by name of city), with descriptions (of varying length and quality) of the liturgical manuscripts in the major libraries. For detailed listings by region, esp. for France, Germany, and Italy, see Sacksteder.
Austria:
Liturgische Texte. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Database of the liturgical manuscripts without notation (Cod. 1-15500 and Series nova).
Katalog des liturgischen Buch- und Musikalienbestandes am Dom zu Salzburg. Teil 1. Die gedruckten und handschriftlichen liturgischen Bücher, ed. Franz Wasner, Stefan Engels, and Ernst Hintermaier. Teil 2. Die Musikhandschriften und Musikdrucke in Chorbuch-Notierung, ed. Ernst Hintermaier (Salzburg, 1922). WorldCat
Britain:
Walter H. Frere, Bibliotheca musico-liturgica: A Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical MSS of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vols. (London, 1901-32; repr. 1967). WorldCat Vol. 1. Includes indices of types of service, persons, and places.
Liturgical Manuscripts in British Libraries
Stephen J. P. van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, 3 vols. in 78 pts. WorldCat
Richard W. Pfaff, ed., The Liturgical Books of Anglo-Saxon England, OEN Subsidia 23 (Kalamazoo, 1995). WorldCat
Denmark:
Knud Ottosen, Database on Danish Liturgical Fragments from the Middle Ages
France:
Victor Leroquais, Les Bréviaires manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, 6 vols. (Paris, 1933). CANTUS Database version. WorldCat
Victor Leroquais, Les Livres d’Heures manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale, 4 vols. (Paris-Mâcon, 1927-1943). WorldCat
Victor Leroquais, Les Pontificaux manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, 3 vols. (Paris, 1937). WorldCat
Victor Leroquais, Les Psautiers manuscrits latins des bibliothèques publiques de France, 3 vols. (Mâcon, 1940-1941). WorldCat
Victor Leroquais, Les Sacramentaires et missels manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, 4 vols. (Paris, 1924). WorldCat
Robert Amiet, Inventaire général des livres liturgiques du diocèse de Lyon (Paris, 1979). WorldCat
Germany:
Liturgical Manuscripts in German Libraries
Leo Eizenhöfer und Hermann Knaus, Die liturgischen Handschriften der Hessischen Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek Darmstadt, 3 vols. (Wiesbaden, 1968). WorldCat
Hungary:
Polikarp Radó, Libri liturgici manuscripti bibliothecarum Hungariae: tomus I: Libri liturgici manuscripti ad Missam pertinentes (Budapest, 1947). WorldCat
Polikarp Radó, Index codicum manuscriptorum liturgicorum Regni Hungariae (Budapest, 1941). WorldCat
Iberia:
José Janini, Manoscritos litúrgicos de las bibliotecas de España, 2 vols. (Burgos, 1977-80).
José Janini and José Seranno, Manuscritos litúrgicos de la Biblioteca Nacional (Madrid, 1969). WorldCat
José Janini, Ramón Gonzálvez, and A. M. Mundó, Catálogo de los manuscritos litúrgicos de la Catedral de Toledo(Toledo, 1977). WorldCat
Andrew Hughes, Medieval Liturgical Books in Twenty-Three Spanish Libraries: Provisional Inventories (New York, 1982). WorldCat
Ireland:
Walter H. Frere, Bibliotheca musico-liturgica: A Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical MSS of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vols. (London, 1901-32; repr. 1967). WorldCat Vol. 1. Includes indices of types of service, persons, and places.
Italy and Vatican City:
Giacomo Baroffio, Iter Liturgicum Italicum
Réginald Grégoire, “Repertorium liturgique Italicum,” Studi medievali 3rd ser. 9 (1968), 465-592.
R. Amiet, “Catalogue de livres liturgiques manuscrits conservés dans les Archives et lest Bibliothèques de la ville de Rome,” Studi medievali, 3rd ser. 27 (1986), 925-97.
Brian Moeller Jensen, Medieval Liturgical Texts in Italian Manuscripts (Lewiston, 2006). WorldCat
Pierre Salmon, Les manuscrits liturgiques latins de la Bibliothèque Vaticane, 5 vols., Studi e testi 251, 253, 260, 267, and 270 (Vatican City, 1968-1972). WorldCat
Pierre Salmon, Analecta liturgica: extraits des manuscrits liturgiques de la Bibliothèque vaticane : contribution à l’histoire de la prière chrétienne, Studi e testi 273 (Vatican City, 1974).WorldCat
J. M. Plotzek and U. Surmann, ed., Biblioteca apostolica vaticana: Liturgie und Andacht im Mittelalter (Stuttgart, 1992). WorldCat
C. Zivelonghi and G. Adami, I codici liturgici della Catedrale di Verona (Verona, 1987). WorldCat
Monumenta Liturgica Beneventana
Low Countries:
Catalogue of Notated Office Manuscripts Preserved in Flanders (c. 1100 – c. 1800) Volume 1: Averbode, Dendermonde, Diest, Geel, Ghent, Tongeren
Scandinavia:
Espen Karlsen, “Liturgiske bøker i Norge inntil år 1300 —import og egenproduksjon,” in Den kirkehistoriske utfordring, ed. Steinar Imsen (Trondheim, 2005), pp. 147-70.
Switzerland:
Iter Helveticum, ed. Pascal Ladner, 5 vols. to date (Freiburg, 1976- ). WorldCat
By Liturgical Book:
Andrew Hughes, Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office: A Guide to Their Organization and Terminology(Toronto, 1982). WorldCat
Andrew Hughes, Medieval Liturgical Books in Twenty-Three Spanish Libraries: Provisional Inventories (New York, 1982). WorldCat
Victor Leroquais, Les bréviaires. Manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, 6 vols. (1934). WorldCat
Victor Leroquais, Les livres d’Heures. Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale de la France, 2 vols. (1927). WorldCat
Victor Leroquais, Les pontificaux. Manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, 4 vols. (1937). WorldCat
Victor Leroquais, Les psautiers. Manuscrits latins des bibliothèques publiques de France, 2 vols. (Mâcon, 1940-41). WorldCat
Victor Leroquais, Les sacramentaires et les missels manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, 4 vols. (1924). WorldCat
Marcel Metzger, Les sacramentaires, Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental 70 (Turnhout, 1970).
Pierre Salmon, Les manuscrits liturgiques latins de la Bibliothèque Vaticane, 5 vols., Studi e testi 251, 253, 260, 267, and 270 (Vatican City, 1968-1972). WorldCat
La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database: Manuscripts of Fourteenth-Century Music
Medical
Bibliographies:
Cumulative:
Peter Murray Jones, “Medicine,” Oxford Bibliographies, Medieval Studies
Guy Sabbah, et al., Bibliographie des textes médicaux latins: Antiquité et haut moyen âge, Centre Jean-Palerne, Mémoires 6 (Saint-Étienne, 1987). WorldCat . With a Premier Supplément 1986–1999, ed. Klaus-Dietrich Fischer(Saint-Etienne, 2000); and a Second Supplément and Addendum 2002.
Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Bibliographie – La médecine romaine
Helmut Leitner, with a Preface by Erna Lesky, Bibliography to the Ancient Medical Authors (Bern, 1973). WorldCat
Gerhard Baader and Gundolf Keil, Medizinhistorische Mittelalterforschung 1950-1980: Eine Auswahlbibliographie, Würzburger Medizinhistorische Forschungen 2 (Würzburg, 2001).
G. Geltner and J. Coomans, “The History of Public Health in Pre-Industrial Societies: A Bibliography
Monica H. Green, “Bibliography II: The Archives and Medieval Medicine,”
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: Subject Catalogue of the History of Medicine and Related Sciences, 18 vols. (Munich, 1980).
Harry Friedenwald, The Bibliography of Ancient Hebrew Medicine, with an Introductory Note (Baltimore, 1944). WorldCat
Databases:
Medicina (BIU Santé, Paris). Bibliographical database merging the serials Bulletin de Médecine Ancienne and Bulletin de Médecine des Temps Modernes.
History of Science, Technology and Medicine (EBSCO database). Incorporates the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
ISIS Cumulative Bibliography 1913-1975. See esp. Volume 4: Civilizations and Periods: Prehistory to Middle Ages; Volume 5: Civilizations and Periods: 15th to 19th Centuries.
Surveys of Scholarship:
Alain Touwaide, “Medicine,” in Handbook of Medieval Culture, ed. Classen,
Alain Touwaide, “Pharmacy,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 1056-90.
Alain Touwaide, “Pharmaceutical Literature,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 1979-2000.
Carrie Griffin, “Historiography of Medieval Medicine,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp 651-66.
Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia, ed. Thomas F. Glick, Steven J. Livesey, and Faith Wallis (New York, 2005). WorldCat
Repertories:
Manuscripts medica. La base de données de manuscrits médicaux latins. Requires free registration.
Pearl Kibre, Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic Writings in the Latin Middle Ages, rev. ed. (New York, 1985). WorldCat
Carmélia Opsomer, Index de la pharmacopée du Ier au Xe siècle, Alpha-Omega, Reihe A, Lexika, Indizes, Konkordanzen zur klassischen Philologie 10 (Hildesheim, 1989). WorldCat
Monica Green, “Medieval Gynecological Texts: A Handlist,” in Green, Women’s Healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and Contexts, Variorum Collected Studies (Aldershot 2000), Appendix, pp. 1-36. WorldCat
Collective Editions:
Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum: Catalogues and Manuscripts
Collections of Essays:
Manuscript Sources of Medieval Medicine, ed. Margaret Rose Schleissner (New York, 1995; repr. 2014). WorldCat
Studies:
Websites:
Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, La médecine dans l’Antiquité
Catalogues:
By Period:
Augusto Beccaria, I codici di medicina del periodo presalernitano (secoli IX, X e XI), Storia e letteratura 53 (Rome, 1956). WorldCat
By Region/Country:
By Library:
Bethesda, Maryland, National Library of Medicine:
Medieval Manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine
Boston, Francis A. Countway Library, Harvard University Center for the History of Medicine:
James F. Ballard, A Catalogue of the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Incunabula in the Boston Medical Library (Boston, 1944). WorldCat
London, British Library:
Laura Nuvoloni, “Medieval Medical Manuscripts in the Harleian Collection A List”
Laura Nuvoloni, “The Harleian Medical Manuscripts,” eBLJ 2008, Article 7, pp. 1-20.
British Library, Digitised Manuscripts (Keyword search terms “medicine OR medical”)
London, Wellcome Library:
Wellcome Library: Medieval Manuscripts
S. A. J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 2 vols. (London, 1973). WorldCat
Richard Palmer and S. A. J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library: First Cumulative Supplement (London, 1989). WorldCat
Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Trust’s History of Medicine Library, Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London, 2000). WorldCat
France:
Ernest Wickersheimer, Les manuscrits latins de médecine du haut Moyen Âge dans les bibliothèques de France, Documents, études et répertoires publiés par l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes 11 (Paris, 1966). WorldCat
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France:
Joël Chandelier, Laurence Moulinier-Brogi, and Marilyn Nicoud, “Manuscrits médicaux latins de la Bibliothèque nationale de France: Un index des œuvres et des auteurs,” Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge 73 (2006), 63-163. WorldCat
Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek:
Project medische Handschriften Wemal & Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht
Vatican Library:
Ludwig Schuba, Die medizinischen Handschriften der Codices Palatini Latini in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek, Kataloge der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg 1 (Wiesbaden, 1981). WorldCat
Medical Illustrations:
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts (London, 1998). WorldCat
Loren MacKinney, with Thomas Herndon, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, n.s. 5 (London, 1965). WorldCat
The MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations
By Author:
Galen:
Galeno: Catalogo delle traduzioni latine. See Manoscritti.
Nicholas Everett, The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: A Critical Edition of the Latin Text with English Translation and Commentary (Toronto, 2012). WorldCat
Hippocrates:
Gilles Maloney and Raymond Savoie, Cinq cent ans de bibliographie Hippocratique, 1473-1982 (St-Jean-Chrysostome, Québec, 1982). WorldCat
Corpus Hippocraticum: Bibliographie der hippokratischen und pseudohippokratischen Werke, comp. Gerhard Fichtner, rev. ed. (2016). Includes indices of Latin titles, incipits, and translators.
By Language:
Arabic:
A. Z. Iskandar, A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London, 1967). WorldCat
A. Z. Iskandar, A Descriptive List of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (Leiden, 1984). WorldCat
Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher, Arabic Medical Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles (Malibu CA, 198). WorldCat
Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine
Greek:
Hermann Diels, Die Handschriften der antiken Ärzte. Griechische Abteilung, Abhandlungen der Königllchen Preußischen Akademie der Wississenschaften 1905/1906 (Berlin 1906). WorldCat
Alan Touwaide, A Census of Greek Medical Manuscripts: From Byzantium to the Renaissance, Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean 6 (London, 2016). WorldCat
Hebrew:
Harry Friedenwald, The Bibliography of Ancient Hebrew Medicine, with an Introductory Note (Baltimore, 1944). WorldCat
Collections of Essays:
Studies:
Florence Eliza Glaze, “The Perforated Wall: The Ownership and Circulation of Medical Books in Medieval Europe, ca. 800–1200″ (unpubl. PhD thesis, Duke University, 1999). Includes “Table 1: Early Medieval Ownership of Medical Books through the Twelfth Century,” pp. 268-92; and “Table 2: Extant Manuscripts with Salernitan or Constantinian Texts, which May Have Been at Centers, but do not Appear in Twelfth-Century Catalogues,” pp. 293-96.
Marilyn Nicoud, Les régimes de santé au Moyen Âge: Naissance et diffusion d’une écriture médicale en Italie et en France (XIIIe- XVe siècle), new online ed. (Rome, 2007). WorldCat Focuses on dietetic literature. Includes an “Annexe 3. Présence de manuscrits diététiques dans des inventaires et catalogues de bibliothèques médiévales” and an “Inventaire N° 1. Manuscrits d’ouvrages diététiques occidentaux en latin.”
Monica H. Green, “Medical Books,” in The European Book in the Twelfth Century, ed. Erik Kwakkel and Rodney Thomson, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 101 (Cambridge, 2018), pp. 277-92. WorldCat
Peter Jones, “Medicine and Science,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 3: 1400-1557, ed. Lotte Hellinga and J. B. Trapp (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 433-48. WorldCat
Gerhard Baader, “Early Medieval Latin Adaptations of Byzantine Medicine in Western Europe,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 38 (1984), 251-59. WorldCat
Richard Lorch, “Greek-Arabic-Latin: The Transmission of Mathematical Texts in the Middle Ages,” Science in Context 14 (2001), 313-31. WorldCat
Monastic
Bibliographies:
Catalogues:
Monastic Manuscript Project. Can be searched by Manuscript, Author, Title, Incipit, Genre, and Provenance, and browsed by Manuscripts, Titles, and Incipits.
Studies:
Albrecht Diem, “Monastische Texte in frühmittelalterlichen Handschriften,” in Diem, Das monastische Experiment: Die Rolle der Keuschheit bei der Entstehung des westlichen Klosterwesens, Vita regularis, 24 (Münster, 2005), pp. 339-93. WorldCat
Musical
See also the separate bibliography on Medieval Liturgy: Liturgical Manuscripts.
Bibliographies:
Biblioteca Música Medieval Online
See also the bibliographies included in the major online catalogues of music manuscripts listed below.
Surveys of Scholarship:
James Zychowicz, “Music in Medieval Studies,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 931-39.
Databases:
Music Theory:
Les Sources manuscrites de la théorie de la musique (S. IX-XVI). Online database updating The Theory of Music. Manuscripts from the Carolingian Era up to c. 1500, Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) B III, 6 vols. (Munich, 1961-2003). WorldCat : 1. Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands(1961); 2. Italy (1968); 3 Federal Republic of Germany (1986); 4. Great Britain, United States of America (1992); 5. Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal and Spain (1997); 6. Addenda/Corrigenda (2003).
Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM). Online Catalogue of Musical Sources.
Lexicon musicum Latinum: Les sources manuscrites de la théorie de la musique
Notated Manuscripts:
Databases:
MMMO Database: Medieval Music Manuscripts Online Database. “This database is an international virtual library of music sources and takes into account the noted manuscripts of Western language for the medieval period up to 1600. For example, within seconds this database will find all antiphonaries or the twelfth century or all Dominican manuscripts, etc.” Allows browsing by medieval sources (type of book, century, RISM entry, literary or theoretical work, or persons) or by modern archive or library. Selecting an archive brings up a list of manuscripts held there, with a “Links” column that leads to the archive or library’s description and images, often with bibliographical data including catalogue references. See also the Répertoire: auteurs latins.
DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music). One can search or browse by Country and library. Includes data from the Repertoire International des Sources Musicales, series B/IV: Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music, 11-16 Centuries. For a tutorial, see “Negotiating DIAMM” (Margot Fassler).
Catalogues:
Comprehensive:
Dominque Gatté, Répertoire des manuscrits médiévaux notés. Includes an extensive listing of libraries by country.
Christian Meyer, Census-catalogue of Notated Mediaeval Manuscripts (CNMM) (2015- ).
By Country/Region:
Only catalogues and databases on notated manuscripts are listed here. For catalogues of liturgical manuscripts that include notated manuscripts, see above under Liturgical.
Austria:
cantusplanus.at. See also below, By Library: Vienna, Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek.
England:
K. D. Hartzell, Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 containing Music (Woodbridge, 2006). WorldCat
Iberia:
Musica Hispanica. Spanish Early Music Manuscripts Database
Portuguese Early Music Database
By Library:
For fuller listings browse DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) by country and library.
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France:
France, Public Libraries:
Christian Meyer, Catalogue des manuscrits notés du Moyen Age conservés dans les bibliothèques publiques de France. Includes a Bibliographie générale et ressources en ligne.
Oxford University:
Neumed Chant Manuscript Holdings in Oxford University: Working Notes
Vatican Library:
Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek:
Musikalische Quellen des Mittelalters in der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Includes: Database of the music manuscripts (basic information); Detailed descriptions of the fully-notated manuscripts; Liturgical manuscripts without musical notation; The choir books of the so-called Alamire-group; Catalogue of the medieval music manuscripts of the Austrian National Library Vienna, Purkersdorf 2014 (FWF e-book library); and an extensive Bibliography.
Collections of Essays:
Sources of Identity. Makers, Owners and Users of Music Sources Before 1600, ed. Lisa Colton and Tim Shephard, Épitome musical (Turnhout, 2017). WorldCat
Studies:
Susan Rankin, “Music Books,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 1: c. 400-1100, ed. Richard Gameson (Cambridge, 2011), pp. 482-506. WorldCat
Series:
Épitome musical (Brepols series)
Musical Treatises (Brepols series)
Penitential
See the separate bibliography on Medieval Christianity and Ecclesiastical Sources: Penance and Penitentials.
Repertories:
Cyrille Vogel, “Les ‘Libri paenitentiales’, Typologie des sources du Moyen Âge médiévale 27 (Turnhout, 1978). With a Mise à jour by Allen Frantzen (Turnhout, 1985).
Studies:
Ludger Körtngen, Studien zu den Quellen der frühmittelalterlichen Bußbücher, Quellen und Forschungen zum Recht im Mittelalter 7 (Sigmaringen, 1993).
Raymund Kottje, “Erfassung und Untersuchung der frümittelalterlichen kontinentalen Bussbücher. Probleme, Aufgaben eines Forschungsprojektes an der Universität Bonn,” Studi medievali 3rd ser. 26 (1985), 941-50.
J. Schmitz, Die Bussbücher und die Bussdisciplin der Kirche: nach handscriftlichen Quellen dargestellt (Graz, 1958). WorldCat
F. W. H. Wasserschleben, Die Bussordnungen der abendländischen Kirche (Halle, 1851). WorldCat
Prayerbooks
For general literature see the separate bibliography on Medieval Christianity and Ecclesiastical Literature: Private Prayer.
Bibliographies:
Elina Gertsman, “Prayer Books,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 2021-26.
Repertories:
Pierre Salmon, “Libelli precum du VIIIe au XIIe siècles,” in Salmon, Analecta liturgica: extraits des manuscrits liturgiques de la Bibliothèque vaticane: contribution à l’histoire de la prière chrétienne, Studi e testi 273 (Vatican City, 1974). WorldCat
Pierre Salmon, “Livrets de prières de l’époque carolingienne,” Revue Bénédictine 86 (1976), 218-34.
Jean-Paul Bouhot, “Livrets de prières carolingiens,” in Prier au Moyen Age: Pratiques et expériences (Ve-XVe) siècles, ed. Nicole Bériou, Jacques Berlioz, and Jean Longère (Turnhout, 1991), pp. 23-31.
Susan Boynton, “Libelli precum in the Central Middle Ages,” in A History of Prayer: The First to the Fifteenth Century, ed. Roy Hammerling (Leiden, 2008), pp. 255-318.
J. Chazelas, “Les livrets de prières privées du Xl siècle. Essai sur la théologie morale et la psychologie des fidèles” (Thèse de l’École des Chartes (Paris, 1959).
Books of Hours:
Elina Gertsman, “Books of Hours,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 1647-52.
Gerard Achten, “Das christliche Gebetbuch im Mittelalter. Andachts- und Stundenbücher in Handschriften und Frühdrucken, 2nd ed. (Berlin, 1987).
Late Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts on the Web: Books of Hours
Jean-Luc Deuffic, Heures manuscrites identifiées
Jean-Luc Dueffic, Livres d’heures numeriseés
Rhetorical
Repertories:
John O. Ward, Ciceronian Rhetoric in Treatise, Scholion and Commentary, Typologie des sources du Moyen Âge occidental 58 (Turnhout, 1995).
Douglas Kelly, The Arts of Poetry and Prose, Typologie des sources du Moyen Âge occidental 59 (Turnhout, 1991).
Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk, “Répertoire chronologique des théories de l’art d’écrire en prose (milieu du XIe s.-années 1230. Auteur, oeuvre(s), inc., édition(s) ou manuscrit(s),” Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi (Bulletin Du Cange) 64 (2006), 193-239.
Martin Camargo, Ars dictaminis, Ars dictandi, Typologie des sources du Moyen Âge occidental 60 (Turnhout, 1991).
Franz Josef Worstbrock, Monika Klaes, and Jutta Lütten, Repertorium der Artes dictandi des Mittelalters, vol. 1:Von den Anfängen bis um 1200, Münstersche Mittelalter-Schriften 66 (Munich, 1992).
Emil J. Polak, Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters (Leiden, 1993- ). WorldCat
Walter Ysebaert, “Letter Collections (Latin West and Byzantium),” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 1898-1905.
Marianne Briscoe and Barbara H. Jaye, The “Artes praedicandi” and the “Artes orandi“, Typologie des sources du Moyen Âge occidental 61 (Turnhout, 1992).
Sales Catalogues
Catalogues de vente numérisés contenant des manuscrits médiévaux
Scientific
Bibliographies:
Claudia Kren, Medieval Science and Technology: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography (New York, 1985).
Mohamed Abattouy, The History of Arabic Sciences: A Selected Bibliography (Berlin, 1996).
S. A. Jayawardene, “Western Scientific Manuscripts before 1600: A Checklist of Published Catalogues,” Annals of Science 35 (1978), 143-72. WorldCat
Surveys of Scholarship:
Alain Touwaide, “Transfer of Knowledge,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 1368-1399.
Repertories:
Stuart Jenks, “Astrometeorology in the Middle Ages,” Isis 74 (1983), 185-210.
Introductions, Guides, and Handbooks
Sarah Powrie, “Historiography of Medieval Science,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 666-78.
Alain Touwaide, “Byzantine Sciences,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp.195-240.
Major Catalogues:
Menso Folkerts, Jordanus. An International Catalogue of Medieval Scientific Manuscripts. “JORDANUS provides information about some 13 400 medieval Western manuscripts (500 – 1500 A.D.) dealing with mathematics in the broad sense, including arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, computus, astronomy, astrology, optics, and mechanics. Most of these manuscripts are written in Latin, but they also include vernacular languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish).”
Dorothea Waley Singer, “Hand-List of Western Scientific Manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland Dating from before the Sixteenth Century (before 1946)”: see T. C. Skeat, Catalogues of the Manuscript Collections in the British Museum (London, 1962) pp. 42-43. WorldCat
Inventaire des manuscrits scientifiques de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgiqueby Roger Calcoen
Lynn Thorndike, “Vatican Latin Manuscripts in the History of Science and Medicine,” Isis 13 (1929), 53-102.
D. C. Lindberg, A Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Optical Manuscripts, Subsidia Mediaevalia 4 (Toronto, 1975).
Arabic:
Alain Touwaide, Medicinalia Arabo-Byzantina , vol.1: Manuscrits et textes (Madrid, 1997).
Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative
Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative
Studies:
Charles Burnett, “Reading the Sciences,” in The European Book in the Twelfth Century, ed. Erik Kwakkel and Rodney Thomson, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 101 (Cambridge, 2018), pp. 259-76. WorldCat
Technical:
Introductions, Guides, and Handbooks:
Thomas F. Glick, “Technology in the Middle Ages,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 1305-10.
Gerhard Eis, Mittelalterliche Fachliteratur, 2nd ed. (Stuttgart, 1962).
Linne R. Mooney, “Manuscript Evidence for the Use of Medieval Scientific and Utilitarian Texts,” in Interstices: Studies in Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A. G. Rigg (Toronto, 2004), pp. 184-202.
Craft Treatises and Handbooks: The Dissemination of Technical Knowledge in the Middle Ages, ed. Ricardo Córdoba de la Llave, De diversis artibus 91 (Turnhout, 2013).
Theological:
Repertories:
Palémon Glorieux, Répertorie des maîtres en théologie de Paris au XIIIe siècle, 2 vols. (Paris, 1933). Vol. 1; Vol. 2.
Histories and Surveys:
Catalogues:
MADOC – Manuscripta Doctrinalia (sec. XIII-XV)
Quodlibase: Base de données des Quodlibets théologiques (1230-1350)
By Author or Text
See the section “Auteurs et thèmes” in Dolbeau and Petitmengin, Indices Librorum\.
Some representative examples:
Authors:
Aristotle:
Aristoteles latinus. See the list of Editions. Includes a Selective Bibliography.
Digitized Aristoteles Latinus. Digital copies of the following print catalogues: Aristoteles latinus. Codices, Pars prior, ed. George Lacombe et al.( Rome, 1939); Aristoteles latinus. Codices, Pars posterior, ed. L. Minio-Paluello(Cambridge, 1955); Aristoteles latinus. Codices, Supplementa altera, ed. L. Minio-Paluello (Bruges, 1961).
Aristoteles latinus. Codices, Supplementa tertia [online draft version]
Boethius:
Codices Boethiani: A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius (London, 1995- ). WorldCat
Isidore of Seville:
C. H. Beeson, Isidor-Studien (Munich, 1913). WorldCat
Priscian:
Guglielmo Ballaira, Per il catologo dei codici di Prisciano (Torino, 1982). WorldCat
Sedulius:
Carl P. E. Springer, The Manuscripts of Sedulius: A Provisional Handlist, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 85/5 (Philadelphia, 1995). WorldCat
Texts:
Gospel of Nicodemus:
Zbigniew Izydorczyk, Manuscripts of the ‘Evangelium Nicodemi’: A Census (Toronto, 1993). WorldCat
School Texts:
Michael Baldzuhn, “Schoolbooks,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 2061-69.
Günter Glauche, Schullektüre im Mittelalter. Entstehung und Wandlungen des Lektürekanons bis 1200 nach den Quellen dargestellt (Munich, 1970).
Schulliteratur im späten Mittelalter, ed. Klaus Grubmüller, Münstersche Mittelalter-Schriften 69 (Munich, 2000).
IV. Digitized Manuscripts
For print facsimiles of manuscripts see:
Bibliographie faksimilierte Handschriften
Collections of Essays:
Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter 3 / Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 3, ed. Oliver Duntze, Torsten Schaßan and Georg Vogeler, Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik 10 (Noderstedt, 2015). WorldCat
Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter / Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2, ed. Franz Fischer, Christiane Fritze, and Georg Vogele, Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik 3 (Norderstedt, 2010). WorldCat
Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter / Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age, ed. Malte Rehbein, Patrick Sahle, and Torsten Schassan, Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik 2 (Norderstedt, 2009). WorldCat
Comprehensive Listings and Gateways
Notices de manuscrits (Arlima)
Sexy Codicology: A World of Illuminated Manuscripts and Medieval Books
Digital Latin Medieval Manuscripts (Albrecht Diem)
DMMapp: Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
Consulting Medieval Manuscripts Online
Electronic Resources for Medieval Philosophy Studies: Manuscripts
Digitalisierte Handschriften (Austria)
Catalogues de manuscrits (Ménestrel)
Manuscrits numerisés (Ménestrel)
Archivalia (Klaus Graf)
Le manuscrit médiéval ~ The Medieval Manuscript (Jean Luc Deuffic)
Le manuscrit médiéval numérisé : ressources en libre accès (Véronique Trémault)
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Macro-Typography (Jean-Baptiste Piggin)
Medieval Manuscripts on the Web (Siân Echard)
V. Websites
APICES: Association paléographique internationale: culture, écriture, société
Institut des Recherches sur l’Histoire des Textes
The Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Schoeberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
Charles D. Wright: cdwright@illinois.edu
last updated 9/19
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