Manuscripts and Special Collections

Further Reading

This list includes classmarks of copies of the books held by the University of Nottingham library. They can be borrowed by library members. This is a select list; you can search the University of Nottingham Library  Catalogue (NUsearch) to find more publications.

Books

Backhouse, Janet. The illuminated page : ten centuries of manuscript painting in the British Library (London : British Library, 1997) [Hallward Library Oversize ND2900.B2]

Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford : Phaidon, 1979) [Hallward Library Oversize ND2900.B2]

De Hamel, Christopher. Scribes and illuminators (London : British Museum Press, 1992) [Hallward Library and DLRC, Jubilee Campus ND2920.D4]

De Hamel, Christopher. A history of illuminated manuscripts (London : Guild, 1986) [DLRC, Jubilee Campus Oversize ND2920.D4]

Geddes, J. (Jane). The St Albans Psalter : a book for Christina of Markyate (London : British Library, 2005) [Hallward Library Oversize ND3357.S12.G4]

Gillespie, Alexandra. Print culture and the medieval author : Chaucer, Lydgate, and their books, 1473-1557 (Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2006) [Hallward Library Z151.2.G4]

Greetham, D.C. Textual Scholarship: An introduction (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1992) [Hallward Library Z1001.G7]

Lyall, R. J., ‘Materials: The Paper Revolution’, in Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375-1475, ed. J. Griffiths and D. Pearsall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 11-29. [Hallward Library Z8.G7]

Morgan, Nigel and Thompson, Rodney M. (eds) The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain vol 2: 1100-1400 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) [Hallward Library Z8.G7.C2]

Myers, Robin and Harris, Michael (eds) A millennium of the book : production, design & illustration in manuscript & print, 900-1900 (Winchester : St Paul's Bibliographies, 1994) [King's Meadow Campus Ref Z4.M4]

Pächt, Otto and Alexander, J.J.G. Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Oxford : Clarendon Press), 1966-1970. 3v [Hallward Library 4/Bib ZND2900.I5]

Parkes, M.B. and Watson, Andrew G. (eds). Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts and Libraries : essays presented to N.R. Ker (London : Scholar Press, 1978) [Central Store 2 Z105.P2]

Reed, R., Ancient Skins, Parchments and Leathers (London and New York: Seminar Press, 1972) [Central Store 2 Z112.R]

Scott, Kathleen L. Dated and Datable English Manuscript Borders, c.1395-1499 (London : British Library, 2002) [Hallward Library ND3334.S]

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