palaeography

Palaeography, Manuscripts, Codicology
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__Reference Works__
 * Cappelli, //Dizionario di abbreviature / Lexicon abbreviaturarum// (1928) [[|uni-koeln]]; (Leipzig, 1901) [[|link]]; (Milan, 1899) [[|link]]
 * T. W. Allen, //Notes on Abbreviations in Greek Manuscripts// (Oxford, 1889) [[|link]]

__General Accounts__
 * Bischoff, //Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages// (Cambridge, 1990) [[|limited preview] ]
 * W. Schubart, //Das Buch bei den Griechischen und Römern, 2nd ed. (Berlin and Leipzig, 1921) [[|link]]//
 * W. Schubart, //Einführung in die Papyruskunde// (Berlin, 1918) [[|archive.org]]
 * J. Muñoz y Rivero, //Paleografía Visigoda: Método téorico-practico para aprender a leer los codices y documentos españoles de los siglos V al XII// (Madrid, 1919) [[|archive.org]]
 * V. E. Gardthausen, //Griechische Paläographie//, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (Leipzig, 1911) [[|archive.org]]; vol. 2 (Leipzig, 1913) [[|archive.org]]; [1st ed.] (Leipzig, 1879) [ [|link] ]
 * F. Steffens, //Paléographie Latine// (Paris, 1910) [[|Archivi] ]
 * **E. M. Thompson, //Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography// (London, 1906) [[|link] ]**
 * F. G. Kenyon, //The Palaeography of Greek Papyri// (Oxford, 1899) [[|archive.org]]
 * T. Birt, //Das antike Buchwesen// (Munich, 1882) [[|link]]
 * W. de Gray Birch, //The History, Art and Palaeography of the Manuscript Styled the Utrecht Psalter// (London, 1876) [[|link]]
 * A. Merino de Jesu-Christo, //Escuela paleographica, ó de leer letras antiguas, desde la entrade de los Godos en España hasta nuestro tiempos// (Madrid, 1780) [[|link] ]
 * B. de Montfaucon, //Palaeographia Graeca// (1708, repr. 1970) [[|link] ]


 * H. Shaw, //A Handbook of the Art of Illumination as Practiced during the Middle Ages// (London, 1866) [[|link]]
 * H. Shaw, //The Hand-Book of Mediaeval Alphabets and Devices// (London, 1853) [[|link]]

__Facsimiles and Collections of Specimens__
 * M. R. James, //Illustrations of the Book of Genesis: Being a Complete Reproduction in Facsimile of the Manuscript British Museum, Egerton 1894// (Oxford, 1921) [[|archive.org]]
 * F. G. Kenyon, //The Codex Alexandrinus (Royal Ms. 1 D V-VIII) in Reduced Photographic Facsimile//, OT pt. 1 [Gen. - Ruth] (London, 1915) [[|archive.org]]
 * L. R. Dean, //An Index to Facsimiles in the Palaeographical Society Publications// (Princeton, 1914) [[|link]]
 * M. R. James, //The Treatise of Walter de Milemete De nobilitatibus, sapientiis, et prudentiis regum, Reproduced in Facsimile from the Unique Manuscript Preserved at Christ Church, Oxford, together with a Selection of Pages from the Companion Manuscript of the Treatise De secretis secretorum Aristotelis, Preserved in the Library of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall// (Oxford, 1913) [[|archive.org]]
 * M. Hyamson, //Mosaicarum et romanarum legum collatio: With Introduction, Facsimile and Transcription of the Berlin Codex, Translation, Notes and Appendices// (Oxford, 1913) [[|archive.org]]
 * W. Schubart, //Papyri Graecae Berolinenses// (Bonn, 1911) [[|archive.org]]
 * **P. F. de' Cavalieri and H. Lietzmann, //Specimina codicum Graecorum Vaticanorum// (Bonn, 1910) [[|archive.org]]**
 * J. K. Fotheringham, //The Bodleian Manuscript of Jerome's Version of the Chronicle of Eusebius Reproduced in Collotype// (Oxford, 1905) [[|link]]
 * M. Prou, //Manuel de paléographie: Recueil de fac-similés d'écritures du Ve au XVIIe siècle// (Paris, 1904) [[|link]]
 * R. Ellis, //Specimens of Latin Palaeography from Mss. in the Bodleian Library// (Oxford, 1903) [[|link] ]
 * //Homeri Ilias cum Scholiis: Codex Venetus A. Marcianus 454,// with prefix by D. Comparetti, Codices Graeci et Latini photographice depicti 6 (1901) [[|U of Houston] ]
 * Lightfoot (ed.), "An Autotype of the Constantinople Manuscript" [of Clement of Rome], in //Apostolic Fathers//, 1.1 (London, 1890) [[|link] ]
 * H. Omont, //Fac-similés de manuscrits grecs des XVe et XVIe siècles// (Paris, 1887) [[|link]]
 * T. K. Abbot (ed.), //Par Palimpsestorum Dublinensium: The Codex Rescriptus Dublinensis of St. Matthew's Gospel (Z); also, Fragments of the Book of Isaiah in the LXX Version...// (Dublin, 1880) [[|link]]
 * A. Champollion, //Paléographie des classiques latins d'après les plus beaux manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Paris// (Paris, 1837) [[|link]]

__Websites with MS. Facsimiles__
 * NB also: [|DigiPal] (Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography); [|Digitized Greek Manuscripts search] (Princeton University)**; [|Tennessee Bob's List of Links] [many defunct]; Flickr group Manuscripta Mediaevalia [[|link] ]; University of Glasgow Library at Flickr [[|link]]
 * [|Paul Halsall, Byzantine Palaeography]
 * Papyri
 * [|Heidelberg Papyri]
 * [|Herculaneum Papyri]
 * [|Michigan Papyri]
 * [|POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online]
 * Facsimiles of the print volumes (see also [|HathiTrust] ): I (1898) [[|link] ]; II (1899) [[|link] ]; III (1903) [[|archive.org] ]; IV (1904) [[|link] ]; V (1908) [[|link] ]; VI (1908) [[|link] ]; VII (1910) [[|archive.org] ]; VIII (1911) [[|link] ]; IX (1912) [[|archive.org] ]; X (1914) [[|link] ]; XI (1915) [[|archive.org] ]; XII (1916) [[|archive.org] ]; XIII (1919) [[|archive.org] ]; XIV (1920) [[|archive.org] ]; XV (1922) [[|archive.org] ]
 * [|Princeton Papyri]
 * Biblical MS
 * [|Center for the Study of NT MSS]
 * [|NT Manuscripts Listed by Date]
 * [|Codex Sinaiticus]
 * Homer
 * Homer Multitext Library: [|Manuscript Image Viewer] -- Venetus A, Venetus B, U4 (Allen) [images mirrored [|U of Houston] ]
 * Archimedes
 * [|Archimedes Palimpsest] -- images also mirrored at [|U of Houston]
 * Collections
 * [|Biblioteca Digital Hispanica]
 * [|BSB] = Bayerische StaatsBibliothek / Munich Digitisation Centre [[|English startpage]]
 * [|Gallica] - Bibliothèque Nationale de France project
 * [|British Library Digitised Manuxcripts]
 * [|Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts] - BYU (especially Syriac mss.)
 * [|Digital Scriptorium - Berkeley]; [|Digital Scriptorium at Columbia]
 * [|Early Manuscripts at Oxford University]
 * [|E-Codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland]
 * [|The Goodspeed Manuscript Collection] - University of Chicago
 * [|Hill Museum and Manuscript Library]
 * [|Leimonos Monastery (Lesbos)]
 * [|Manuscriptorium]
 * [|Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts] - Koningklijke Bibliotheek, Netherlands
 * [|Parker Library on the Web] - Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
 * [|Penn in Hand] - facsimiles via UPenn Library
 * [|The Schøyen Collection]
 * [|Vatican Library]
 * Hebrew
 * [|Qumran Great Isaiah Scroll]
 * [|Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library (Leon Levy DSSDL)]
 * [|Dead Sea Scrolls (Library of Congress Exhibit)]
 * [|Cairo Genizah]
 * [|Treasury of Talmudic MSS (navigation in Hebrew)]