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�ambridge Studies in Palaeographyand Codicology : Newnham College, University of Cambridge

Trinity College, University of Cambridge

This series has been established to further the study of manuscriptsfrom the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It includes books devotedto particular types of manuscripts, their production and circulation,to individual codices of outstanding importance and to regions,periods and scripts of especial interest to scholars. The series will beof interest not only to scholars and students of medieval literatureand history, but also to theologians, art historians and othersworking with manuscript sources.

�he Palaeography of GothicManuscript Books�rom the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Universite Libre de Bruxells

This book is the first to present a detailed survey of all book scriptsin use in western and central Europe from c. 1100 to c. 1530 (withthe exception of Humanistic script). This period has been poorlyserved in almost all other palaeographical handbooks. By adoptinga largely new classification of scripts based on objective criteria,which incorporates many of the terms currently in use, this bookaims to end the confusion which has hitherto obscured the study of late-medieval handwriting. It is based upon an examination of avery large number of dated specimens, and is thus the first surveyto take full advantage of the incomparable palaeographical resourceprovided by the Catalogues of Dated Manuscripts. The text isillustrated throughout with 600 drawings of letters and symbols.There are 160 actual-size reproductions providing datable specimensof all the scripts discussed, accompanied by partial transcriptionsand palaeographical commentary.

August 2003247 x 174 mm • 300pp1 line diagram 160 half tones520 figures

0 521 803152Hardback • c.£75.00

�he Gottschalk Antiphonary�usic and Liturgy in Twelfth-Century Lambach

This book reconstructs and studies the music, liturgy, and illustrationsof a twelfth-century manuscript from the Austrian monastery inLambach. The manuscript was taken apart in the fifteenth centuryand subsequently sold to various collectors in the twentieth century.The pages are here brought together (albeit photographically) forthe first time since the original manuscript was dismantled fivecenturies ago. The book includes a black-and-white facsimile of therecovered portion of the manuscript, and charts and tables are usedto demonstrate how it compares with other twelfth-century liturgicalmanuscripts.

�he Scriptorium andLibrary at Monte Cassino,1058– 1105 Duke University, North Carolina

In all the history of hand-written books, oneof the most distinctive and handsome scriptsis that of the abbey of Monte Cassino in itsclassic form. This study shows how the scribes of the late eleventh century developedtheir geometrical style of handwriting andthoroughly investigates and illustrates its rulesand conventions. The book provides abackground for the world-famous copies ofworks – many of them uniquely preserved atMonte Cassino – of classical authors, churchFathers, and medieval writers.

2000 • 247 x 174 mm332pp • 80 half tones 4 table • 17 figures

0 521 59249 6Hardback • £60.00

1999 • 276 x 219 mm448pp • 339 half tones9 colour plates

0 521 58395 0Hardback • £140.00

‘A distinctive mark of Davis'svaluable contribution to thishandsome Cambridge Series.’

Medium Aevum

‘A newparadigm forthe developmentof script in theMiddle Ages …a splendidbook.’

Scriptorium

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�ision and Meaning inNinth-Century Byzantium�mage as Exegesis in the Homilies ofGregory of Nazianus University of Birmingham

This book centres on the copy of the Homiliesof Gregory of Nazianzus produced inConstantinople around 880 for the emperorBasil I as a gift from the patriarch Photios. The manuscript includes forty-six full pageminiatures, most of which do not directlyillustrate the text they accompany, but insteadprovide a visual commentary. Vision andMeaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium dealswith how such communication worked, andexamines the types of messages that thepictures could convey to contemporaries.

�iles of Rome’s ‘De RegiminePrincipum’�eading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c. –

. Georgia Southern University

From the time of its composition (c.1280) for Philip the Fair ofFrance until the early sixteenth century, Giles of Rome’s mirror ofprinces, the De regimine principum, was read by both lay andclerical readers in the original Latin and in several vernaculartranslations, and served as model or source for several works ofprincely advice. This study uses an interdisciplinary approachtowards the surviving manuscript copies, as well as documentaryand literary evidence, to show how people of the later Middle Agesread Giles’s text and appropriated it for their own particular purposes.

1999 • 247 x 174 mm568pp • 177 half tones59 figures

0 521 62153 4Hardback • £80.00

1999 • 247 x 174 mm222pp • 17 half tones 8 tables

0 521 57053 0Hardback • £50.00

‘A monumentof excellentscholarship formany years tocome.’

Early Medieval

Europe

‘A learned and thought-provokingbook.’

Cyril Mango,

Byzantine and

Modern Greek

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�he Harley Psalter University of Cambridge

This is a fascinating study of the making ofthe Harley Psalter, an illustrated manuscriptwhich was produced at Christ Church,Canterbury over a period of about 100 years,from c. 1020 to c. 1130. William Noel analyseshow the artists and scribes worked with eachother and with their manuscript exemplars inmaking their illustrated text. This is a crucialwork for understanding the development ofart, script and book making during what hasbeen termed the ‘golden age’ of Anglo-Saxonart.

�he Bobbio Missal

omen as Scribesook Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth CenturyBavaria

�he Service Books of Santa Maria del Fiore�athedral and Civic Ritual in Late Mediebal and RenaissanceFlorence

�eading in Medieval St Gall

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1996 • 247 x 174 mm 249pp • 6 line diagrams77 half tones

0 521 46495 1Hardback • £50.00

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The Early MedievalBibleIts Production,Decoration and UseEdited by Richard Gameson

Manuscripts andLibraries in the Ageof CharlemagneBernhard BischoffTranslated and Edited byMichael Gorman

Cultural Interplay inthe Eighth CenturyThe Trier Gospels andthe Making of aScriptorium atEchternachNancy Netzer

�atin Palaeography�ntiquity and the Middle Ages

This work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography,offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in anylanguage of the history of Latin script. It also contains a detailedaccount of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance, which outlines the history of book illumination.Designed as a textbook, it contains a full and updated bibliography.Because the volume sets the development of Latin script in itscultural context, it also provides an unrivalled introduction to thenature of medieval Latin culture. It will be used extensively in theteaching of latin palaeography, and is unlikely to be superseded.

List of abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Codicology: 1. Writing materials and writing tools; 2. The external characteristicsof the written heritage; 3. Writing and copying; Part II. The Historyof Latin Script: 4. Latin script in antiquity; 5. Latin handwriting inthe Middle Ages; 6. Supplement; Part III. The Manuscript in CulturalHistory: 7. Roman and Christian antiquity; Plates; Bibliography;Index of names and subjects.

1990 • 228 x 152 mm303pp

0 521 36726 3Paperback • £19.95

‘Latinpalaeographyhas received its vade mecum from its foremostrepresentative.’

Eranos

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diting Piers Plowman�he Evolution of the Text University of Oxford

The fifty-plus manuscripts of Piers Plowman have always posed a puzzle to scholars. This book is an account of the editions of the poem which have appeared since 1550, examining thecircumstances in which the editions were produced, the lives andintellectual motivations of the editors, and the relationship betweenone edition and the next.

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Cambridge Studies inMedieval Literature, 28

1996 • 228 x 152 mm468pp

0 521 34250 3Hardback • £65.00

�haucer: The wife ofBath’s Prologue on CD-Rom De Montfort University, Leicester

The Wife of Bath’s Prologue on CD-ROMinaugurates a revolutionary new kind of‘book’: an electronic textual edition of amajor work of literature containing all theoriginal sources for the work, both transcribedand in image form, with sophisticated search software and scholarly apparatus – asignificant innovation in textual bibliography.

245 x 168 mm

0 521 46593 1CD-Rom • £150.00

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�ewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century University of Leeds

. University of Leciester

The first substantial publication in the growingfield of studies of texts in Old English in thetwelfth (and early thirteenth) century. Usefulto historians, linguists, English, Anglo-Normanand Latin literature scholars and manuscriptspecialists, it covers a wide variety of significantissues including production, audience, contentsand uses.

�rint Manuscripts and the Search for Order 1450 –1830 c

This book re-examines fundamental aspects of what has beenwidely termed the printing revolution of the early modern period.David McKitterick argues that many of the changes associated with printing were only gradually absorbed over almost 400 years, a much longer period than usually suggested.

July 2003 • 247 x 174 mm • 360pp • 44 half-tones

0 521 82690 X • Hardback • c. £45.00

Cambridge Studies inAnglo-Saxon England, 30

2000 • 228 x 152mm224pp • 11 half tones

0 521 62372 3Hardback • £45.00

�raphic Design, Print Culture and the Eighteenth Century Novel University of Texas, Austin

The uniformity of the eighteenth-century novel in today’spaperbacks and critical editions no longer conveys the early novel’svisual exuberance. Janine Barchas explains how during the genre’sformation in the first half of the eighteenth century, the novel’smaterial embodiment as printed book rivalled its narrative contentin diversity and creativity. Innovations in layout, ornamentation, andeven punctuation found in, for example, the novels of Richardson,an author who printed his own books, help shape a tradition ofearly visual ingenuity. From the beginning of the novel’s emergencein Britain, prose writers including Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Henry and Sarah Fielding experimented with the novel’sappearance. Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 graphicfeatures found in eighteenth-century editions, this important studyaims to recover the visual context in which the eighteenth-centurynovel was produced and read..

Acknowledgments; List of illustrations; 1. Expanding the literarytext: a textual studies approach; 2. The frontispiece: counterfeitauthority and the author portrait; 3. The title page: advertisement,identity, and deceit; 4. Clarissa’s musical score: a novel’s politicsengraved on copper plate; 5. The space of time: graphic design andtemporal distortion; 6. Sarah Fielding’s David Simple: a case study inthe interpretive significance of punctuation; 7. The list and index: aculture of collecting imprints upon the novel.

May 2003247 x 174 mm • 320pp110 half tones

0 521 81908 3Hardback • c.£45.00

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�iteracy in Lombard Italy,c. 568 – 774 Harvard University, Massachusetts

Italy had long experienced literacy underRoman rule, but what happened to literacy in Italy under the rule of a barbarian people?This book examines the evidence for the useof literacy in Lombard Italy c. 568–774, aperiod usually considered as the darkest ofthe Dark Ages in Italy due to the poor survivalof written evidence and the reputation of theLombards as the fiercest of barbarian hordesever to invade Italy. A careful examination ofthe evidence, however, reveals quite a differentstory. This study considers the different typesof evidence in turn and offers a re-examinationof the nature of Lombard settlement in Italyand the question of their cultural identity. Farfrom constituting a Dark Age in the history ofliteracy, Lombard Italy possessed a relativelysophisticated written culture prior to the so-called Carolingian Renaissance of the ninthcentury.

Introduction; 1. Italy and literacy before theLombards; 2. The early Lombards and theirsettlement in Italy; 3. Language and literacy (i) Lombard language (ii) Latin; 4. Law andgovernment; 5. Charters; 6. Inscriptions; 7. Manuscripts; Conclusion.

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March 2003228 x 152 mm 414pp • 12 half tones 2 maps

0 521 81905 9Hardback • c. £50.00

�he Cambridge Genizah Collections�heir Contents and Significance . University of Cambridge

This collection of original contributions by an international group of experts summarizes recent developments in Genizah research. It begins with an overview of a century of work on the famous Taylor-Schechter Collection of Hebrew manuscripts at CambridgeUniversity Library. The essays provide an introduction to importantintellectual, religious and social developments in the Jewishcommunities of the medieval Islamic world. There are extensiveindexes as well as 22 plates. It will appeal to those with interests inHebrew and Jewish studies, Semitics, religious studies and aspectsof medieval history.

Preface; 1. A centennial assessment of Genizah studies Stefan C. Reif;2. Genizah manuscripts of Ben Sira Menahem Kister; 3. Targumicstudies and the Cairo Genizah Michael L. Klein; 4. The TannaiticMidrashim Menahem Kahana; 5. Two insights from a ninth-centuryliturgical handbook: the origins of Yequm Purqan and Qaddish de-Hadata Neil Danzig; 6. Judah Halevi: records of a visitor fromSpain Joseph Yahalom; 7. Medieval history and religious thoughtHaggai Ben-Shammai; 8. Jewish-Muslim relations in the MedievalMediterranean area Paul B. Fenton; 9. On marital age, violence and mutuality in the Genizah documents Mordechai A. Friedman;10. Women speak for themselves Joel L. Kraemer.

2002 • 298 x 194 mm256pp • 22 half tones

0 521 81361 1Hardback • £45.00

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�ebrew Manuscripts ofthe Middle Ages

This illustrated introduction to Hebrewmanuscript culture encompasses all aspects ofHebrew manuscripts – textual, codicologicaland palaeographical – combining differentdisciplines to give an all-embracing view ofthe subject. A description of the history oftexts in Hebrew reveals the range and varietyof texts – many of which have never beenprinted.

2002 • 247 x 174 mm366pp • 169 half tones

0 521 77079 3Hardback • £65.00

�ebrew Manuscripts at CambridgeUniversity Library� Description and Introduction . University of Cambridge

This volume represents the first comprehensive guide to the Hebrewmanuscripts held at the Cambridge University Library. The descriptionsconsider the standard biblical, rabbinic and liturgical material, butalso cover scientific, poetic, philosophical and mystical content. Inaddition the physical make-up of each manuscript is consideredalongside its scholarly significance. Introductory essays are alsoincluded, together with extensive indexes, and a representativeselection of photographed folios.

1997 • 247 x 174 mm648pp • 32 half tones

0 521 58339 XHardback • £95.00

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�ebrew Scholarship andthe Medieval World

This book brings together specially-commissioned contributions by leading scholars, who survey what hasbeen achieved in recent research on medievalHebrew language and texts, and shed lighton various aspects, particularly the ways inwhich Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholarsin the Middle Ages influenced each other.There are contributions by long-establishedand younger scholars from around the world,and particularly from western Europeancountries where Hebrew studies are currentlyflourishing (Britain, Holland, France, Spain).

■ Embodies the latest scholarship in a keyarea within Medieval Studies and HebrewStudies

■ International team of experts contributing

■ Emphasis on scholarly contacts andinfluences between Jews and Christians,Jews and Muslims

2001 • 228 x 152 mm261pp

0 521 78116 7Hardback • £45.00

�edieval Music Making and theRoman de Fauvel University of Pennsylvania

This book explores the role of music in an early fourteenth-centuryFrench manuscript. It sets the manuscript against the wider cultureof Parisian book-making, showing how in devising new systems ofdesign and folio layout, its creators developed a new kind ofmateriality in music.

riting, Society andCulture in Early Rus, c. 950 – 1300 Clare College, Cambridge

This is the first comprehensive study of theorigins and early uses of Russian writing,including analysis of a wide range of writingsfrom a variety of perspectives. The impressivescholarship and idiosyncratic wit of thisvolume commend it to students and specialistsin Russian history and literature alike.

2002 • 228 x 152 mm318pp • 44 half tones4 tables

0 521 81371 9Hardback • £50.00

2002 • 228 x 152 mm342pp • 14 half tones1 map

0 521 81381 6Hardback • £45.00

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