Grades: Your final grade will be based on your performance on the reading recited in the class (60%) and your written work for the Keio Cartulary Roll project (40%).  Most important for the in-class work is the amount of effort put into learning the scripts.  If you have questions about your performance, please see me.

All readings are to be completed before the week for which they are assigned.

IMS=Introduction to Manuscript Studies

MB=Michelle Brown. A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600

Week 1 (Friday, September 2, First Class)

Introduction.  Syllbus, Keio Transcription Project. Tools of the paleographer. Abbreviations.

Week 2 (Monday, September 12) Abbreviation, Intro to English Hands (Secretary, Anglicana).

Reading: IMS, Chapters 1-4; Chapter. Review Introduction in Cappelli (in English). Quiz on abbreviations (IMS, pp. 91-93).

Week 3 (Monday, September 19): Hierarchy of Scripts, Uncial, Half-uncial

Reading: MB p. 14-31.

View: Beinecke MS 440; Beinecke MS 342;

Week 4 (Monday, September 26): Insular Hands, Punctuation

Reading: MB p. 48-57; IMS p. 138-139 (Insular Minuscule); 82-91; 161-165 (Bastard Anglicana Script). First English Charter on Keio Chartulary (begins: For as muche as the sayde John. . . . )

Week 5 (Monday, October 3, Rosh Hashanah) Regional Hands

Reading: Beneventan; Visigothic; Luxeuil, German Minuscule. MB p. 32-33; 42-47; 118-119. IMS p. 135-137;140-141;151-152. Prepare Beinecke MS 528, verso, column b (begins “magic. . . “). Compare Beinecke MS 1151 with IMS p. 140.

View: Beinecke MS 447; Beinecke MS 481.3 (Visigothic): Beinecke MS 193; Beinecke MS 481.2; (Luxeuil): Beinecke MS 1157; Marson MS 112; Beinecke MS 1126 (identify?); Beinecke MS 1023; Beinecke MS 484.15; Beinecke MS 528 (Beneventan).

Week 6 (Monday, October 10, Columbus Day) Caroline

Reading: Skim (don’t read) Panofsky’s panofsky-renaissance-and-renascences article.

View: Beinecke MS 808; Beinecke MS 413; Beinecke MS 389; Marston MS 151; Beinecke MS 402; Beinecke MS 442; Read next four lines of Latin in Keio Roll.

Week 7 (Monday, October 17): Proto-Gothic

Reading: IMS, p. 145-150. MB, p. 72-79.

View: Beinecke MS 414; Beinecke MS 775; Beinecke MS 643; Beinecke MS 625; Beinecke MS 1038.

Week 8 (Monday, October 24) Gothic

Reading: MB, p. 80-115; IMS, p. 153-173.

View: Beinecke MS 604; Beinecke MS 439; Beinecke MS 433; Beinecke MS 455; Beinecke MS 125; Beinecke MS 407

Week 9 (Monday, October 31, Halloween) Gothic (con’t)

Reading: IMS, pp. 222-239 (Charters); 250-258 (Rolls and Scrolls); pp. 129-134 (Manuscript Description). Review: Shailor Catalog Description, Beinecke MS 407

View:

Week 10 (Monday, November 7, Roll Event, Ege Event (November 10)): Guest Lecture Prof. Emeritus Toshi Takamiya, Keio University.

Reading:

Week 11 (Monday, November 14) Inks, Pigments, Binding

Reading: Traveling Scriptorium to visit class.  Re-read chapters on mss production in IMS.

November Recess

Week 12 (Monday, November 28) Humanism

Reading: MB, p. 126-135; IMS, p. 174-178.

View: Early Humanist: Beinecke MS 428; Marston MS 59. Humanist: Beinecke MS 438; Beinecke MS 284; Beinecke MS 409 (Hebrew); Marston MS 39; Marston MS 247; Osborn a50.

Week 13 (Monday, November 5, Last Class)

For this last class please be prepared to present on the topics you have been researching for the Keio University Scroll project.  You will need to delegate so that each person in each of the groups presents some part of the material.

Reading: