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Resources

Suggestions for Further Reading

Print Resources

Alexander, Jonathan J. G. Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Bell, Nicolas. Music in Medieval Manuscripts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.

Bovey, Alixe. Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts. London: British Library, 2002.

Camille, Michael. “The ‘Très Riches Heures’: An Illuminated Manuscript in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Critical Inquiry 17/1 (Autumn 1990): 72-107.

Camille, Michael. “Sensations of the Page: Imaging Technologies and Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts.” In The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print and Digital Culture, edited by George Bornstein and Theresa Tinkle (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 33-53.

De Hamel, Christopher.  A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. London: Phaidon Press, 1994.

De Hamel, Christopher. Making Medieval Manuscripts. Oxford: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2018.

Hindman, Sandra and Nina Rowe, eds. Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction. Evanston, Illinois: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 2001.

Nordenfalk, Carl. Color of the Middle Ages: A Survey of Book Illumination Based on Color Facsimiles of Medieval Manuscripts. Pittsburgh: University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, 1976.

Page, Sophie. Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts. London: British Library, 2002.

Web Resources

British Library, London

“How to Make a Medieval Manuscript,” by Kathleen Doyle and Patricia Lovett.
https://www.bl.uk/medieval-english-french-manuscripts/articles/how-to-make-a-medieval-manuscript


Facsimile Finder, San Marino

Definition of Facsimile: What is a Facsimile Edition?” October 28, 2020.


J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

The Alchemy of Color and Chemical Change in Medieval Manuscripts.” October 10, 2016.

Making Manuscripts.” June 17, 2014.

The Medieval Calendar.” August 23, 2012.


Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Art of the Book in the Middle Ages.


“The Book of Hours: A Medieval Bestseller,” by Wendy A. Stein.



Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Morganmobile.”


Pages of Gold: Medieval Illuminations from the Morgan.
 

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