29 April 2012,

2014 Hanna Vorholt

Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, 24

Decoration of Manuscripts
Select Bibliography
Pigments
Clarke, M., The Art of All Colours: Medieval Recipe Books for Painters and Illuminators
(London 2001)
Clarke, M., 'The Analysis of Manuscript Pigments: Why, What, and How?', in Gazette du Livre
Mdival 40 (2002), pp. 36-44
Meijers, M.J., 'Out of the Blue: the Use of Infrared False Colour Photography as an Art
Historian's Tool', in Gazette du livre mdival 33 (1998), pp. 39-41
Whitley, K.P., The Gilded Page. The History and Technique of Manuscript Gilding (New Castle
and London, 2000)

Production Stages and General Reference

Alexander, J.J.G., A survey of illuminated manuscripts in the British Isles (London, 1978-1996)
[I. J.J.G. Alexander (ed.), Insular manuscripts 6th to the 9th centuries (1978); II. E. Temple
(ed.), Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, 9001066 (1976); III. M. Kaufmann (ed.), Romanesque
manuscripts, 10661190 (1975); IV. N. J. Morgan (ed.), Early Gothic manuscripts, 2 vols.
(19828); V. L. F. Sandler (ed.), Gothic manuscripts, 12851385, 2 vols. (1986); VI. K. Scott
(ed.), Later Gothic manuscripts, c. 13901490, 2 vols. (1996)]
Alexander, J.J.G., Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work (New Haven and London
1992)
Alexander, J.J.G., "Preliminary Marginal Drawings in Medieval Manuscripts", in: in: X. Barral i
Altet (ed.), Artistes, Artisans et Production Artistique au Moyen Age, 3 vols. (Paris 1986-1990),
vol. 3, pp. 307-19
Barral i Altet, X. (ed.), Artistes, Artisans et Production artistique au Moyen Age (Paris 19861990), vol. 3
Brownrigg, L.L. (ed.), Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence (Los Altos Hills
1990)
Calkins, R.G., 'Stages of Execution: Procedures of Illumination as Revealed in an Unfinished
Book of Hours', in: Gesta 27 (1978), pp. 61-70.
De Hamel, C., Medieval Craftsmen: Scribes and Illuminators (London 1992)
De Hamel, C., A History of Illuminated Manuscripts (London 1994)
De Hamel, C., The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination: History and Techniques
(London 2001)
Jakobi-Mirwald, C., Das Mittelalterliche Buch. Funktion Und Ausstattung (Stuttgart 2004)
Pcht, O., Book Illumination in the Middle Ages (London 1994)
Stirnemann, P. and Gousset, M.-T., 'Marques, mots, pratiques. Leurs significations et leurs
liens dans le travail des enlumineurs', in: O. Weijers (ed.), Vocabulaire du livre et de l'criture
au Moyen Age (Turnhout, 1989), pp. 34-55
Watson, R., Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Makers (London 2003)

Components
Brown, M. P., Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms (London
1994) [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/glossary.asp] general
Edson, E., Mapping time and space: How Medieval mapmakers viewed their world (London
1997) [maps, general]
Harley, J.B. and Woodward, D., The history of cartography vol. 1 (Chicago 1987)

29 April 2012,
2014 Hanna Vorholt
Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, 24

Iconclass [http://www.iconclass.nl/] [iconography]

Jakobi-Mirwald, C., 'Die historisierte Initiale ein unter- oder berschtztes Phnomen?', in:
Gazette du livre mdival 33 (1998), pp. 35-39
Korteweg, A. S. (ed.), Krizels, Aubergines En Takkenbossen. Randversiering in
Norrdnederlandse Handschriften Uit De Vijftiende Eeuw (Den Haag 1992) [initials]
Murdoch, J., Album of Science: Antiquity and the Middle Ages (New York 1984) [diagrams]
Scott, K.L., Dated and Datable English Manuscript Borders c. 1395-1499 (London, 2002)
Stirnemann, P., 'Fils de la Vierge. L'initiale Filigranes Parisienne: 1140-1314', in: Revue de
l'Art 90 (1990), pp. 58-73 [initials as aids for the dating of manuscripts]

Mise-en-page
Gumbert, J.P., The Dutch and their Books in the Manuscript Age (London 1989), esp. pp. 3051
Martin, H.-J., Vezin, J. (eds), Mise en Page et Mise en Texte du Livre Manuscrit (Paris 1990)
Kruska, B., 'Zeilen, Rnder und Initiale. Zur Normierung des Layouts hochmittelalterlicher
Papsturkunden', in: P. Rck (ed.), Mabillons Spur: Zweiundzwanzig Miszellen aus dem
Fachgebiet fr Historische Hilfswissenschaften der Philipps-Univeristt Marburg zum 80.
Geburtstag von Walter Heinemeyer (Marburg 1992, pp. 231-245)
Gumbert, J.P., ''"Typography" in the Manuscript Book', in: Journal of the Printing Historical
Society 22 (1993), pp. 5-28
Byrne, D., 'Manuscript Ruling and Pictorial Design in the Work of the Limbourgs, the Bedford
Master, and the Boucicaut Master', in: The Art Bulletin 66.1 (1984), pp. 117-38

Copying
Alexander, J.J.G., 'Facsimiles, Copies, and Variations: The Relationship to the Model in
Medieval and Renaissance European Illuminated Manuscripts', in: Retaining the Original.
Multiple Originals, Copies, and Reproductions. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
(Washington 1989), pp. 61-74
Chavannes-Mazel, C.A., 'Problems in Translation, Transcription and Iconography: The Miroir
Historial, Books 1-8', in: M. Paulmier-Foucart, S. Lusignan, A. Nadeau (ed.)., Vicent de
Beauvais: Intentions et Rceptions d'une Oeuvre Encyclopdique au Moyen ge (Paris 1990),
pp. 345-74
Dekeyzer, B., Van der Stock, J. (eds), Manuscripts in Transition: Recycling Manuscripts,
Texts, and Images (Leuven 2005)
Wenzel, H., Lechtermann, C. (eds), Die Beweglichkeit der Bilder: Text und Imagination in den
illustrierten Handschriften des 'Welschen Gastes' von Thomasin von Zerclaere (Cologne
2002)

Online Resources
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=339