Codicology Textbooks

Arias Torres, Juan Pablo, and Teresa Espejo Arias, eds. El manuscrito andalusí: Hacia una denominación de origen. Sevilla: Consejería de Cultura, Junta de Andalucía, 2008.

Bausi, Alessandro, gen. ed. Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: An Introduction. Hamburg, Tredition, 2015.  Available for free download from the COMSt website at: http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/handbookonline.html

Beit-Arié, Malachi. The Making of the Medieval Hebrew Book: Studies in Palaeography and Codicology. Jerusalem: Magnes, 1993.

Beit-Arié, Malachi. Hebrew Codicology: Historical and Comparative Typology of Medieval Hebrew Codices Based on the Documentation of the Extant Dated Manuscripts until 1540 Using a Quantitative Approach. Translated into English by Ilana Goldberg, edited by Nurit Pasternak. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2021.  Available Open-Access at: https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.9349

Clemens, Raymond, and Timothy Graham. Introduction to Manuscript Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.

Déroche, François, et al. Islamic Codicology: An Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Script. Trs. Deke Dusinberre and David Radzinowicz, ed. Muhammad Isa Waley. London: Furqan Foundation, 2005.  Original: Manuel de codicologie des manuscrits en écriture arabe. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2000.  Also available in Arabic and Italian translations.

Géhin, Paul, et al. Lire le manuscrit médiéval: Observer et décrire. Paris: Colin, 2005.

Gruys, Albert, and Johan Peter Gumbert, eds. Codicologica: Towards a Science of Handwritten Books. 5 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1976-1980.

Hanna, Ralph. Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts, their Producers and their Readers. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013.

Hiravī, Najīb Māyil. Naqd va taṣḥīḥ-i mutūn: Marāḥil-i nuskhah shināsī va shivah’hā-yi taṣḥīḥ-i nuskhah’hā-yi khaṭṭ-ī farsī. Mashad: Āstān-i Quds-i Razavī, 1369 Sh/1990.

Hiravī, Najīb Māyil. Tārīkh-i nuskhah pardāzi va taṣḥīḥ-i intiqādī-ye nuskhah’hā-yi khaṭṭī. Tehran: Kitābkhānah va mūzih va markaz-i asnād-i Majlis-i shūrā-ye islāmī, 1379 Sh/2000.  Available for free download from the website of the Library and Museum and Document Center of the Iranian Parliament at: http://www.ical.ir/index.php?option=com_digitarchive&menuid=12&catid=162&Itemid=18.

Kwakkel, Erik. Books before Print: Medieval Media Cultures. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Lemaire, Jacques. Introduction à la codicologie. Leuven: Université catholique de Louvain, 1989.

Al-Munajjid, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn. Qawāʾid fahrasat al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿarabiyyah. 1st ed. Beirut: Dār al-kitāb al-jadīd, 1973.

Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith. “Moritz Steinschneider and the Discipline of ‘Hebrew Manuscript Study’.” In Studies on Steinschneider: Moritz Steinschneider and the Emergence of the Science of Judaism in Nineteenth-Century Germany, eds. Reimund Leicht and Gad Freudenthal: 249–261.  Leiden: Brill, 2012.

Royan, Nicola, and Joanna Martin. Introduction to Medieval Books. The University of Nottingham, 2011, available on the university’s website for Manuscripts and Special Collections at: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/researchguidance/medievalbooks/introduction.aspx

Ṣafarī Āq Qalʿah, ʿAlī. Nuskhah shinākhat: Pazhūhish-nāmah-i nuskhah shināsi-yi nusakh-i khaṭṭī-yi fārisī. With a preface by Iraj Afshar. Tehran: Markaz-i pazhūhishī-yi mīrāth-i maktūb, 1390 Sh/2011.

Skemer, Don. Review of Books before Print by Erik Kwakkel. The Medieval Review, 2020, TMR 20.05.15, available at: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/30863.

Turner, E. G. Greek Papyri: An Introduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968.

Treharne, Elaine, et al. Digging Deeper: Making Manuscripts. Stanford University, online course, Winter 2015, available at: http://online.stanford.edu/course/digging-deeper-making-manuscripts

[Tuttle, Kelly.] Islamic Manuscript Basics. Philadelphia: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, [no date; launched in July 2020?]; available at: https://kislakcenter.github.io/islamicmss/

 

Dagmar A. Riedel

First published, 13 April 2013

Last updated, 30 December 2023

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