On Irish palaeography
OʼNeill, Timothy, The Irish hand: scribes and their manuscripts from the earliest times to the seventeenth century with an exemplar of Irish scripts, Mountrath: Dolmen Press, 1984.
Byrne, Francis J., A thousand years of Irish script: an exhibition of Irish manuscripts in Oxford libraries, Oxford, 1979.
OʼSullivan, William, “Manuscripts and palaeography”, in: Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (ed.), A new history of Ireland, vol. 1: Prehistoric and early Ireland, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 511–548.
Background, especially on earliest stages.
- Earlier works
OʼCurry, Eugene, Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history, delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland during the sessions of 1855 and 1856, Dublin, 1861.
On Latin palaeography
Bischoff, Bernhard, Latin palaeography: antiquity and the Middle Ages, tr. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, and David Ganz, original title: Paläographie des römischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Lindsay, W. M., Early Irish minuscule script, Saint Andrews University Publications, 6, Oxford, 1910.
Reprinted in 1971 (Hildesheim).
Internet Archive: <link>
Lindsay, W. M., Notae Latinae: an account of abbreviation in Latin mss. of the early minuscule period, c. 700-850, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915.
comments: For the supplement, see Bains 1936a
Bains, Doris [author], A supplement to ‘Notae Latinae’: abbreviations in Latin mss. of 850 to 1050 A.D., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936.
Supplement to Lindsay, Notae Latinae (1915).
Internet Archive – available on loan only: <link>
Websites
- In development: Links (codicology and palaeography)
- Palaeography
Vincent Morley, Lámhscríbhinní.
Dennis King, Nótaí Imill.
Gary Ingle and Dennis King, Quid Nunc: Notae.
- Manuscripts
[etc.]
- Fonts
[etc.]
