Resources and Links

These books, articles, and websites are resources I personally have consulted; I own copies or photocopies of all the books and articles listed here. Although my main research interests are the history and use of the book during the medieval period and historical bookbinding practices, I have included resources about medieval manuscript illumination and calligraphy here also, because these topics are often intertwined.

Modern Bookbinding

• Banister, Manley. 1975. The Craft of Bookbinding. New York: Dover.
• Book Arts Web: http://www.philobiblon.com/
• Diehl, Edith. 1980. Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique, vol. 2. New York: Dover.
• Lhotka, Edward R. 2000. ABC of Leather Bookbinding: A Manual for Traditional Craftsmanship. Newcastle, DE: Oak Knoll Press.
• Mitchell, John. 1993. The Craftsman’s Guide to Edge Decoration. Worthington, U.K.: The Standing Press.

Historical Bookbinding

General

• De Bray, Dirk. 1658/1977. A Short Instruction in the Binding of Books followed by a Note on the Gilding of the Edges by Ambrosius Vermerck, trans. H. S. Lake. Amsterdan: Nico Israel.
• Diehl, Edith. 1980. Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique, vol. 1. New York: Dover.
• Dillenkofer, Ted. 1996. Basic Bookbinding: Materials and Techniques. The Compleat Anachronist, vol. 85.
• Levey, Martin. 1962. Mediaevel Arabic Bookmaking and Its Relation to Early Chemistry and Pharmacology. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (new series), vol. 52, part 4 (includes English translations of two Arabic bookbinding manuals, dating from 1025 and 1619).
• Marks, P. J. M. 1998. The British Library Guide to Bookbinding: History and Techniques. Toronto: Toronto University Press.
• Pollard, Graham. 1984. Early Bookbinding Manuals: An Annotated List of Technical Accounts of Bookbinding to 1840. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society.
• SCA Binders List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-BINDERS/
• Szirmai, J. A. 1999. The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate.
• Princeton University Library: http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/index.html

Carolingian Bindings

• Sheppard, Jennifer M. 1995. Some Twelfth-Century Monastic Bindings and the Question of Localization. In Making the Medieval Book: Techniques of Production, ed. Linda Brownrigg. Los Altos Hills, CA: Anderson-Lovelace.

Chemise Bindings

• Photographs: http://www.kb.nl/galerie/100hoogtepunten/014-en.html and http://www.kb.nl/manuscripts/introduction/introduction5.html (image)

Edge Decoration

• Adams, Crawford W. 1970. Medical Fore-edge Decorations and Paintings. CHEST, vol. 58, pp. 519-525.
• Foot, Mirjam. 1993. Medieval Painted Book Edges. In Studies in the History of Bookbinding, ed. Mirjam Foot. Aldershot, U.K.: Scolar Press.
• Loring, Rosamund B. 1942. Decorated Book Papers: Being an Account of Their Designs and Fashions. Cambridge: Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library.
• Pearson, David. Provenance Research in Book History: A Handbook. London: British Library.
• Stephens, Hannah Haines. 1990. The History and Technique of Fore-edge Decoration. Master’s thesis, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Weber, Carl J. 1949. A Thousand and One Fore-edge Paintings. Watervile, ME: Colby College Press.

Embroidered Bindings

• Davenport, Cyril. 1899. English Embroidered Bookbindings. London: Keegan Paul.

Furnishings

• Book Clasps (instructional): http://www.bookclasp.com/
• Egan, Geoff. 1998. The Medieval Household: Daily Living c. 1150-c. 1450. London: The Stationery Office.
• Mueller Bindery (modern reproductions): http://www.mueller-buch.de/bbset.htm
• Mowery, J. Franklin. Clasps, Schliessen, Clausuren: A Guide to the Manufacture and the Literature of Clasps. Guild of Bookworkers Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, fall 1991, pp. 1-58.

Girdle Books

• Digital Scriptorium Spencer Collection Ms. 039: http://web.archive.org/web/20071111034955/http://dpg.lib.berkeley.edu/webdb/ds/search?Image=300178
• Iowa Digital Library, Gary Frost reproduction: http://cdm.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/binding&CISOPTR=161&REC=11 (modern reproduction)
• Law of Jutland (Danish): http://www2.kb.dk/elib/mss/treasures/bogbind/rostgaard_6.htm
• Röhsska Museum: http://www.lammgard.se/designmuseum/samling.htm
• Textile girdle book: http://www.bu.uni.torun.pl/cymelia/sakwowa.html
• Wikipedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Girdle_books

Girdle-Prayerbooks

• British Museum Image: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/g/girdle_prayer_book.aspx
• Elizabethan Jewelry: http://www.elizabethancostume.net/jewelry/index.html#girdles
• Holbein Drawing at the Tate: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/holbein/rooms/room4.htm
• Scarisbrick, Diana. 1994. Jewellery in Britain: 1066-1837. Norwich, U.K.: Michael Russell.
• Tate, Hugh. 1985. The Girdle-Prayerbook or ‘Tablett’: An Important Class of Renaissance Jewellery at the Court of Henry VII. Jewellery Studies, vol. 2, pp. 29-57.
• Trustees of the British Museum. 1976. Jewellery through 7000 Years. London: British Museum.

Vade Mecums

• Boston College image: http://at.bc.edu/slideshows/dualpurpose/8.html
• Carey, Hilary M. 2003. What Is the Folded Almanac? The Form and Function of a Key Manuscript Source for Astro-medical Practice in Later Medieval England. Social History of Medicine, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 481-509.
• Carey, Hilary M. 2004. Astrological Medicine and the Medieval English Folded Almanac. Social History of Medicine, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 345-363.
• Digital Scriptorium HM 47641 images: http://dpg.lib.berkeley.edu/webdb/dsheh/heh_brf?Description=&CallNumber=HM+47641
• Royal Observatory, Edinburg, almanac image: http://www.roe.ac.uk/roe/library/crawford/index.html (scroll down for image)
• Waveland Studio modern reproduction: http://www.wavelandstudio.com/oneofakind/1257yellowvademecum/yellowvad.htm

History of the Book and Related Topics

• Kilgour, Frederick G. 1998. The Evolution of the Book. New York: Oxford UP.
• May, John. 2002. Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words. New York: Wiley.
• Shailor, Barbara A. 1991. The Medieval Book: Illustrated from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Wieck, Roger.1988. Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. New York: George Brazilier.

Suppliers and Supplies

• Hollander’s: http://www.hollanders.com/
• John Neal Bookseller: http://www.johnnealbooks.com/
• J. Hewit and Sons: http://www.hewit.com/
• Talas: http://talasonline.com/

• Archival Quality Leather Information: http://www.hewit.com/sd12-leat.htm

Illuminated Manuscripts

• Alexander, Jonathan J. G. 1992. Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Backhouse, Janet. N.d. The Hastings Hours. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks in association with the British Library.
• The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry, Prince of France. 1958. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Clark, Gregory T. 2005. The Spitz Master: A Parisian Book of Hours. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.
• De Hamel, Christopher. 2001. The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination: History and Techniques. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• De Hamel, Christopher. 1994. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd ed. London: Phaidon Press.
• The Grandes Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry. 1971. New York: George Braaziller.
• Gullick, Michael. 1995. A Bibliography of Medieval Painting Treatises. In Making the Medieval Book: Techniques of Production, ed. Linda Brownrigg. Los Altos Hills, CA: Anderson-Lovelace.
• Hendrix, Lee, and Thea Vignau-Wilberg. 1997. Nature Illuminated: Flora and Fauna from the Court of the Emperor Rudolf II. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.
• The Hours of Jeanne D’Evreux, Queen of France. 1957. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Kren, Thomas. 2007. French Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.
• McKendrick, Scot. 2003. Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1400-1550. London: British Library.
• Pacht, Otto. 1986. Book Illumination in the Middle Ages (London: Harvey Miller).
• Palladine, Pia. 2003. Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting in of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Thomas, Marcel. 1979. The Golden Age: Manuscript Painting at the Time of Jean, Duke of Berry. New York: George Braziller.
• Walther, Ingo F., and Norbert Wolf. 2005. Masterpieces of Illumination: The World’s Most Beautiful Illuminated Manuscripts from 400 to 1600. London: Taschen.
• Watson, Rowan. 2003. Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Makers. London: V&A Publications.

Medieval Calligraphy

• Drogin, Marc. 1980. Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique. New York: Dover.
• Gumbert, J. P. 1986. Ruling by Rake and Board: Notes on Some Late Medieval Ruling Techniques. In Role of the Book in Medieval Culture, ed. Peter Ganz. Brepols: Turnhout.
• Hildebrandt, Bill. 1995. Calligraphic Flourishing: A New Approach to an Ancient Art. Boston: David R. Godine.
• Hulsmann, Margriet. 1995. Decorative Penwork and Book Production: Evidence for Localizing Northern Netherlandish Manuscripts. In Making the Medieval Book: Techniques of Production, ed. Linda Brownrigg. Los Altos Hills, CA: Anderson-Lovelace.
• Morgan, Margaret. 2006. The Bible of Illuminated Letters: A Treasury of Decorative Calligraphy. New York: Quarto.
• Van Horicke, Baldri. 1985/1633. Pictorial Calligraphy and Scrollwork: An Antique Copybook Rediscovered. New York: Dover.

Miscellaneous

• Finlay, Victoria. 2004. Color: A Natural History of the Palette. New York: Random House.
• Kennedy, Gerry, and Rob Churchill. 2005. The Voynich Manuscript. London: Orion Books.