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Manuscripts & Paleography

Online

Note that many libraries all around Europe and the globe have made their manuscripts available online. Since not every library can be listed below, it is a good strategy to try to explore the digital resources of the library that holds the manuscript of interest to you. For example, the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Laurentian library in Florence) and its manuscripts can be accessed online.

In Print

  • Ancient Greek Scholarship: a guide to finding, reading, and understanding scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises, from their beginnings to the Byzantine period. Dickey, E. Oxford.
    Classmark: PA 53 .D53 DIC
  • Scribes and Scholars: a guide to the transmission of Greek and Latin literature. Reynolds, L. D. Oxford, 2013. Fourth edition.
    Classmark: Z 40 REY
  • Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Bischoff, Bernhard. Translated by Dáibhí O Cróinin and David Ganz. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
    Classmark: Z 114 BIS
    The most current work on Latin palaeography.
  • An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography. Thompson, Edward Maunde. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1912.
    Classmark: Z 113.8 THO
    Still the standard manual in English on Greek palaeography.