Bibliography on Manuscript Illustration for NCS Graduate Workshop
Required Reading
Morgan, Nigel. “Illumination: Pigments, Drawing, and Gilding,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in
Britain: 1100-1400. Ed. Nigel J. Morgan and Rodney M. Thomson. Cambridge: CUP, 2008. Pp.
84-95.
Kauffman, Martin. “Illustration and Ornament,” in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: 11001400. Pp. 474-87.
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General Studies
Alexander, J. J. G. “Foreign illuminators and illuminated manuscripts” in The Cambridge History of the Book
in Britain: 1400-1557. Ed. Lotte Hellinga and J. B. Trapp. Cambridge: CUP, 1999. Pp. 47-64.
Alexander, J. J. G. Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Backhouse, Janet. The Illuminated Manuscript. London: Phaidon, 1979.
Backhouse, Janet. The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library. London:
British Library; Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Binski, Paul, and Stella Panayotova, ed. The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the
Medieval West. London: Harvey Miller, 2005.
Brown, Michelle P., and Scott McKendrick, eds. Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters; Essays in
Honour of Janet Backhouse. British Library Studies in Medieval Culture. London: British Library,
1998.
Brown, Michelle P. Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms. Los Angeles: The J.
Paul Getty Museum in association with the British Library, 1994.
De Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Oxford: Phaidon, 1986.
De Hamel, Christopher. The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination: History and Techniques.
London: British Library, 2001.
Scott, Kathleen L. "Design, Decoration and Illustration." In Book Production and Publishing in Britain 13751475. Ed. Jeremy Griffiths and Derek Pearsall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Pp. 31-64.
Michael, M. A. "English Illuminators c.1190-1450: A Survey from Documentary Sources." English
Manuscript Studies 1100-1700 4 (1993): 62-113.
Useful Catalogues and Reference Works
Morgan, Nigel. Early Gothic Manuscripts, 1190-1285. 2 Vols. Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the
British Isles 4. London: Harvey Miller and Oxford University Press, 1982-88.
Sandler, Lucy Freeman. Gothic Manuscripts, 1285-1385. 2 Vols. Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the
British Isles 5. London: Harvey Miller and Oxford University Press, 1986.
Scott, Kathleen L. Dated and Datable English Manuscript Borders. London: The Bibliographical Society and
the British Library, 2002.
Scott, Kathleen L., gen ed. An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VII.
London; Harvey Miller, <2000->.
Scott, Kathleen L. Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390-1490. 2 Vols. Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the
British Isles 6. London: Harvey Miller, 1996.
Selected Specialized Studies
Brantley, Jessica. Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Camille, Michael. The Gothic Idol: Ideology and Image-Making in Medieval Art. Cambridge: CUP, 1989.
Camille, Michael. Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art. Essays in Art and Culture. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Camille, Michael. Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Hamburger, Jeffrey F. The Rothschild Canticles: Art, Mysticism, and Devotion in Flanders and the Rhineland c.
1400. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.
Hamburger, Jeffrey F. The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany.
New York: Zone Books, 1998.
Holcomb, Melanie. Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages. New York and New Haven, CT: The
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2009.
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, and Denise L. Despres. Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book
Production in the Douce Piers Plowman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1999.
Lawton, Lesley. "The Illustration of Late Medieval Secular Texts, with Special Reference to Lydgate's Troy
Book." In Manuscripts and Readers in Fifteenth-Century England. Ed. Derek Pearsall. Cambridge: D. S.
Brewer / Boydell and Brewer, 1983. Pp. 41-69.
Marrow, James H. Passion Iconography in Northern European Art of the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance:
A Study of the Transformation of Sacred Metaphor into Descriptive Narrative. Kortrijk: Van Ghemmert,
1979.
Scheller, Robert W. Exemplum: Model-Book Drawings and the Practice of Artistic Transmission in the Middle Ages
(200 B.C.-ca. 1470). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1996.
Scott, Kathleen L. “The Illustrations of MS Douce 104,” in Piers Plowman: A Facsimile of Bodleian Library,
Oxford, MS Douce 104. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992. Pp. xxvii-lxxxvii.
Smith, Kathryn A. Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England: Three Women and their Books of
Hours. London and Toronto: The British Library and the University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Wieck, Roger S. Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art. New York: George
Braziller, 1997.
Manuscript Illustration and Chaucer
Brantley, Jessica. Venus and Christ in Chaucer’s Complaint of Mars: The Fairfax 16 Frontispiece,” SAC 30
(2008): 171-204.
Emmerson, Richard K. “Text and Image in the Ellesmere Portraits of the Tale-Tellers.” The Ellesmere
Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation, ed. Martin Stevens and Daniel K. Woodward. San Marino,
CA and Tokyo: Huntington Library and Yushudo Co., 1997.
Fisher, John H. "The Intended Illustrations in MS Corpus Christi 61 of Chaucer's Troylus and Criseyde." In
Medieval Studies in Honor of Lillian Herlands Hornstein. Ed. Jess B. Bessinger, Jr., and Robert R.
Raymo. New York: New York University Press, 1976. Pp. 111-119.
Helmbold, Anita. “Chaucer Appropriated: The Troilus Frontispiece as Lancastrian Propaganda,” SAC 30
(2008): 205-34.
Kolve, V. A. Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1984.
Kolve, V. A. Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2009.
Pearsall, Derek. "The Troilus Frontispiece." Yearbook of English Studies 7 (1977): 68-74.
Salter, Elizabeth, and Derek Pearsall. "Pictorial Illustration of Late Medieval Poetic Texts: The Role of the
Frontispiece or Prefatory Picture." In Medieval Iconography and Narrative: A Symposium. Ed.
Flemming G. Andersen, et al. Odense: Odense University Press, 1980. Pp. 100-123.