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Further Reading

1. Studies on Manuscripts:

  1. Alexander, Jonathan J. G. Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work. New Haven, CT and London, 1992.
  2. Bischoff, Bernhard. Paläographie des romischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters. Berlin rev. ed. 1986. Trans. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín and David Ganz as Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Cambridge and New York, 1990.
  3. Brown, Michelle. Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms. Malibu CA, 1994.
  4. Boyle, Leonard E., O.P. Medieval Latin Palaeography: A Bibliographical Introduction. Toronto and Buffalo, NY, 1984.
  5. Bühler, Curt F. The Fifteenth-Century Book: The Scribes, the Printers, the Decorators. Philadelphia, 1960.
  6. Clemens, Raymond and Timothy Graham. Introduction to Manuscript Studies. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2007.
  7. De Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd ed. London, 1994.
  8. De Hamel, Christopher. Scribes and Illuminators. Toronto and Buffalo, NY, 1992.
  9. Derolez, Albert. The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books, from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  10. Diringer, David. The Hand-Produced Book. London, 1953 and New York 1954.
  11. Gaur, Albertine. A History of Writing, rev. ed. London, 1992.
  12. Jackson, Donald. The Story of Writing. New York, 1981.
  13. Shailor, Barbara A. The Medieval Book: Illustrated Manuscripts from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Toronto and Buffalo, NY, 1991.

2. Studies on Medieval Liturgy:

  1. The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages. Ed. Margot Fassler and Rebecca Baltzer. Oxford, 2000.
  2. Harper, John. The Forms and Orders of Western Liturgy. Oxford, 1991.
  3. Hiley, David. Western Plainchant: An Introduction. Oxford, 1993.
  4. Hughes, Andrew. Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office. Toronto, 1982.
  5. Huglo, Michel. Les livres de chant liturgique. Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental, 52. Turnhout, 1988.
  6. Iter Liturgicum Italicum. Ed. Giacomo Baroffio. Padua 1999, esp. pp. 162-165 for liturgical manuscripts of Italian origin in New York City.
  7. Jungmann, Joseph. The Mass of the Roman Rite: Origins and Development. Transl. F.A. Brunner. 2 vols. New York, 1950.
  8. The Liturgy of the Medieval Church. Ed. Thomas Heffernan and E. Ann Matter. Kalamazoo, MI, 2001.
  9. Martimort, Aimé-Georges, ed. The Church at Prayer. Collegeville, MN, 1992.
  10. Palazzo, Eric, Le Moyen Age: Des origines au XIIIe siècle (Histoire des livres liturgiques). Paris, 1993. Trans. Madeleine Beaumont as A History of Liturgical Books from the Beginning to the Thirteenth Century. Collegeville, MN, 1998.
  11. Pfaff, Richard. Medieval Latin Liturgy: A Select Bibliography. Toronto, 1982.
  12. Sources of the Modern Roman Liturgy. 2 vols. Ed. S. J. P. Van Dijk. Leiden, 1963.
  13. The Study of Liturgy. Ed. Cheslyn Jones et alii. Rev. edn. New York, 1992.
  14. Vogel, Cyrille. Medieval Liturgy: An Introduction to the Sources. Trans. William Storey and Niels Rasmussen. Washington, DC, 1986.

3. Exhibitions of Liturgical Manuscripts:

  1. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Liturgie und Andacht im Mittelalter. Ed. Joachim M. Plotzek and Ulrike Surmann. Stuttgart, 1992.
  2. Liturgia in Figura: Codici liturgici rinascimentali della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Ed. Giovanni Morello and Silvia Maddalo. Vatican City, 1995.
  3. Liturgical manuscripts for the Mass and the Divine Office. Ed. John Plummer. New York, 1964.
  4. Sciacca, Christine. “Liturgical Manuscripts: An Introduction,” Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, British Library, accessed January 2, 2019, https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourLitGen.asp.

4. Studies and Tools for the Liturgical Calendar:

  1. Blackburn, Bonnie and Leofranc Holford-Strevens. The Oxford Companion to the Year. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  2. Cappelli, A. Cronologia, Cronografia e Calendario Perpetuo. Manuali Hoepli. Milan, 1906, 3rd ed. 1969; many reprints.
  3. Grotefend, H. Taschenbuch der Zeitrechnung des deutschen Mittelalters und der Neuzeit. Hannover 1898, 10th ed. Ed. Th. Ulrich, 1960.
  4. Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints . St. Louis and London, 1924.
  5. Pickering, F. P. The Calendar Pages of Medieval Service Books: An Introductory Note for Art Historians . Reading, England, 1980.
  6. Poole, R. L. Medieval Reckonings of Time . Helps for Students of History, n. 3. London 1918.
  7. Ware, Dean R. "Medieval Chronology: Theory and Practice" in Medieval Studies: An Introduction . 2nd ed. Ed. James M. Powell. Syracuse, NY 1992, pp. 252-277, esp. 268-273.
  8. Wieck, Roger. The Medieval Calendar: Locating Time in the Middle Ages . New York: Scala, 2017.