Recommended Books

Alexander, Jonathan, Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work, Yale University Press, New Haven 1992.

Backhouse, Janet, The Illuminated Page: 10 Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1998. 

Brown, Michelle, Understanding Illuminating Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms, The J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library Board, London, 1994.

De Hamel, Christopher, Scribes and Illuminators: Medieval Craftsman Series, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1992.

De Hamel, Christopher, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, Phaidon, London, 1986.

De Hamel, Christopher, The British Library guide to Manuscript Illumination – History and Techniques, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2001.

Drogin, Marc, Medieval Calligraphy – It’s History and Technique, Dover Publications Inc. New York, 1980.

Jackson, Donald, The History of Writing, Taplinger Publishing Co., New York, 1981.

Johnston, Edward, Writing & Illuminating & Lettering, Pitman & Sons, London, 1932.

Lamb, C.M., Ed., The Calligrapher’s Handbook, Faber & Faber, London, 1968.

The Craftsman’s Handbook “Il Libro dell’Arte” Cennino d’Andrea Cennini,Translated By Daniel Thompson, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1960.

Theophilus On Divers Arts, The Foremost Medieval treatise on Painting, Glassmaking and Metalwork, Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1979.

Thompson, Daniel, The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1956.

Thompson, D.V., translator. De Arte Illuminandi: The Technique of Manuscript Illumination,Yale University Press, New Haven, 1933.

Walther, Ingo & Wolf, Norbert, Masterpieces of Illumination: The World's Most Famous Manuscripts 400 To 1600,Taschen America LLC, 2005.

Watson, Rowan, Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Makers, V&A Publications, London, 2003.

Wilson, Elizabeth, Bibles and Bestiaries : A Guide to Illuminated Manuscripts, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 1994.

Wong, Frederick, The Complete Calligrapher,: Watson-Guptill, New York 1980.