Reading List

First I will start with a couple books and articles dealing with the overview of Byzantine script and manuscript production.

Barbour, Ruth. Greek Literary Hands, A.D. 400-1600.  New York: Clarendon Press, 1981.

Abt, Jeffrey and Margaret A. Fusco. “A Byzantine Scholar's Letter on the Preparation of Manuscript   Vellum.”  Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 28, No. 2 (Autumn, 1989), 61-66.

Milliken, William M.  “Byzantine Manuscript Illumination.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, No. 3 (Mar., 1947), 50-53.

Walker, Alicia.  “Classicizing Imagery and Islamicizing Script in a Byzantine Bowl.”  The Art Bulletin 90, No. 1 (Mar., 2008), 32-53. 

Then I will continue to read further, more in depth articles and books regarding Byzantine script.

Jeffreys, Michael J.  “The Literary Emergence of Vernacular Greek.”  Mosaic 8, no. 4 (Summer 1975), 1-24.

Diller, Aubrey, Studies in Greek Manuscript Tradition, (Amsterdam : A. M. Hakkert, 1983)

Metzger, Bruce Manning, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible : an Introduction to Greek Palaeography, (New York : Oxford University Press, 1981)

Milne, Herbert John Mansfield, Greek Shorthand manuals; Syllabary and Commentary; edited from papyri and waxed tablets in the British museum and from the Antinoe papyri in the possession of the Egypt exploration society, (London, Antrim, N. H., Egypt Exploration Society; [etc., etc.] 1934).

The Libraries of the Byzantine World Wilson, Nigel G Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies; Spring 1967; 8, 1; ProQuest pg. 53

The Function and Evolution of Byzantine Rhetoric Kustas, George L Viator; Jan 1, 1970; 1, ProQuest pg. 55.

The Literary Emergence of Vernacular Greek Jeffreys, Michael J Mosaic; Summer 1975; 8, 4.