History of Books and Printing

Medieval Period: The Codex and Manuscript Production

Alexander, Jonathan, Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993). JFF 93-1645.

Bologna, Guila, Illuminated Manuscripts: The Book Before Gutenberg (New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988). JFG 89-187.

Buhler, Curt Ferdinand, The Fifteenth Century Book: The Scribes, The Printers, The Decorators (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1960). E-11 1664.

Calkins, Robert G., Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983). JFF 84-171.

De Hamel, Christopher, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts (Oxford: Phaidon, 1986). 8-*ISGE 86-3106.

Diringer, David, The Illuminated Book: Its History and Production (London: Faber and Faber, 1958). *RR-*ISM.

Harthan, John P., Books of Hours and Their Owners (Freiberg: Herder, 1982, c1977). JFG 86-32.

Putnam, George, Books and Their Makers in the Middle Ages (New York: Hillary House Publishers, Ltd., 1962). *RR-*IIE.

Roberts, Colin H., and T.C. Skeat, The Birth of the Codex (London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1987). JFE 88-6087.