3. Printed Facsimiles

  • Bishop, T. A. M., English Caroline Minuscule, Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks (Oxford, 1971). Oversize LDY.
  • Bishop, T. A. M., Scriptores regis: Facsimiles to Identify and Illustrate the Hands of Royal Scribes in Original Charters of Henry I, Stephen, and Henry II (Oxford, 1961). Oversize MVE.
  • Diehl, E., Inscriptiones latinae (Bohn, 1912). XH5.
  • Ehrle, F., and P. Liebaert, Specimina codicum latinorum Vaticanorum, Tabulae in usum scholarum 3 (2nd edn, Berlin, 1968). Oversize XH5.
  • Grieve, H. E. P., Examples of English Handwriting 1150–1750 with Transcripts and Translations, Essex Record Office Publications no. 21 (Chelmsford, 1954; rpt London, 1978). LDY.
  • Johnson, C. B., and H. Jenkinson, English Court Hand A.D.1066 to 1500: Illustrated Chiefly from the Public Records, 2 pts. (Oxford, 1915; rpt. New York, 1967). Part 1 = text; Part 2 = 44 leaves of plates. LDY.
  • Kirchner, J., Scriptura latina libraria a saeculo primo usque ad finem medii aevi, LXXVII imaginibus illustrate (2nd edn, Munich, 1970). LDR. Facsimiles of medieval documents.
  • Lowe, E. A., Codices Latini Antiquiores: A Palaeographical Guide to Latin Manuscripts Prior to the Ninth Century, 11 vols. and Supplement (Oxford, 1934-71; 2nd edn of vol. II, 1972). See also addenda by J. Brown in Medieval Studies, 47 (1985), 317–66.
  • Lowe, E. A., Palaeographical Papers, 1907–1965, ed. L. Bieler, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1972).
  • Parkes, M. B., English Cursive Book Hands, 1250–1500, Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks (Oxford, 1969; rev. edn, London, 1979). LDY+.
  • Robinson, P. R., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts , c.737-1600, in Cambridge Libraries, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1988). 2JMefr.
  • Salter, H. E. (ed.), Facsimiles of Early Charters in Oxford Muniment Rooms (Oxford, 1929). Oversize MWJD.
  • Scase, W. (ed.), The Vernon Manuscript: A Facsimile Edition of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet.a.1, Bodleian Digital Texts 3 (Oxford, 2011). Cf. eadem (ed.), The Making of the Vernon Manuscript: The Production and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet.a.1, Texts and Transitions 6 (Turnhout, 2013), and D. Pearsall (ed.),  Studies in the Vernon Manuscript (Cambridge, 1990).
  • Warner, G. F., and H. Ellis (ed.), Facsimiles of Royal and Other Charters in the British Museum, vol. 1, William I—Richard I (London, 1903). LEIea.
  • Watson, A. G., A Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts, c. 435-1600, in Oxford Libraries, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1984). Reference 2JMea.
  • Watson, A. G., A Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts, c. 700-1600, in the Department of Manuscripts, the British Library, 2 vols. (London, 1979).
  • Wright, C. E., English Vernacular Hands from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Centuries, Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks (Oxford, 1960). LDY.

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