Classical Philology: Palaeography & Textual Criticism
Overview
On this page, you can discover the best resources for the study of ancient and medieval manuscripts (scrolls, codices, etc.) available to UB library users.
Introductions & Guides | Palaeographical Photographs | Catalogs & Checklists of Manuscripts
Ancillae for Manuscript Abbreviations | Textual Transmission & Textual Criticism | Online Resources
Introductions & Guides
An introduction to Greek and Latin palaeography by Edward Maunde Thompson (1912)
Annex: Z114 .T472
Online: 1966 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only); 1912 edition available at the Internet Archive.
Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography by Edward Maunde Thompson (1966)
Goetz: Z114 .T472
Annex: Z114 .T471 1966
Online: 1906 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only); 1893 edition available at the Internet Archive.
Palaeographical Photographs
Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200, 10 vols., by Kirsopp & Silva Lake (1934)
Annex: Oversize Z113 .M816 1st ser.
Online: 1934 edition available at Lake Online on Pyle.
A guide to Western historical scripts from antiquity to 1600 by Michelle P. Brown (2007)
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Catalogs and Checklists of Manuscripts
Ancillae for Manuscript Abbreviations
Notae latinae: An account of abbreviation in Latin mss. of the early minuscule period (c. 700-850) by W. M. Lindsay (1915)
Annex: PA2318 .L46
Online: 1915 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only) and at the Internet Archive.
See also: Doris Bains, A supplement to Notae latinae (abbreviations in Latin mss. of 850 to 1050 A. D.) (1936).
Lexicon abbreviaturarum, etc., 6th ed., by Adriano Cappelli (1973)
Annex: Z111 .C24 1973
Online: 1912 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only); 1928 edition of German translation available at the Internet Archive.
The elements of abbreviation in medieval Latin paleography by Adriano Cappelli (1991)
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Textual Transmission & Textual Criticism
The Genesis of Lachmann's Method by Sebastiano Timpanaro (2006)
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Storia della tradizione e critica del testo by Giorgio Pasquali (1974)
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