Manuscript
Location and Number
(Manuscript
Name)
Style/Origin and Date of the Manuscript
Book
Title
Book Commentary
Book Publication Information
Book Call Number
(Manuscript's
Zotter Number) [Refers to citation
number in Zotter, Hans, Bibliographie
faksimilierten Handschriften (1976); in Davis Reference
Stacks (non-circulating): #Z6601.Z68]
Example:
Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS. 58
(Book of Kells)
Hiberno-Saxon, 8th Century
The
Book of Kells: Selected Plates in Full Color
Commentary: Blanche Cirker
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1982
ART: ND3359 .K4 B67 1982
(Zotter 141)
The second list also includes books dedicated to thematic
aspects of manuscript illumination (ex. "Manuscripts produced at the
Abbaye de Corbie"), single library collections (ex. Brussels, Bibliothèque
Royale) and survey-type books concerning one or more style of manuscript illumination
(ex. VARIOUS - FRENCH).
Manuscripts
are sorted alphabetically by type. Types
include:
Apocalypses
Benedictionals
Bestiaries
Bibles
Biographies/Hagiographies
Blockbooks
Books of Hours
Breviaries
Calendars/Menologions
Epistolaries
Evangeliaries
Exultet Rolls
Haggadot
Histories/Chronicles
Homilies
Lectionaries
Legal Texts
Literature
Medical/Health Texts
Miscellanies
Missals
Music Books
Other
Passionals
Prayerbooks
Psalters
Sacramentaries
Sketchbooks/Modelbooks
Travels
The
style/origin of the manuscript may refer to two or more categories:
It may refer to trans-regional styles or distinctions
such as:
Byzantine (Greek and Latin East, c. mid-4th to mid-15th Centuries)Insular (British Isles, c. 7th to mid-11th CenturiesHiberno-Saxon / Celtic (British Isles, c. 7th to mid-8th Centuries)Anglo-Saxon (British Isles, c. mid-8th to mid-11th Centuries)Carolingian (Western European, c. 8th to mid-10th Centuries)Ottonian (Western European, c. mid-10th to mid-11th CenturiesRomanesque (Western European, c. mid-11th to 12th Centuries)Gothic (Western European, c. mid-12th to 15th CenturiesHebrew
It may refer to the regional origin of the illuminators
such as: