SELECTED READINGS

General

• Avrin, Leila, Scribes, Script and Books: The Book Arts from
  Antiquity to the Renaissance (London: The British
  Library, 1991)
  
  
• Backhouse, Janet, The Illuminated Manuscript (London:
  Phaidon Press Limited, 1979)
  
  
• Backhouse, Janet, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of
  Manuscript Painting (Toronto: University of Toronto
  Press, 1997)
  
  
• Brown, Michelle P., Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts:
  A Guide to Technical Terms (Los Angeles: J Paul Getty
  Museum, 1996)
  
  
• Camille, Michael, Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval
  Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992)
  
  
• De Hamel, Christopher, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts,
  (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1997)
  
  
• Janson, H.W., Apes and Ape Lore in the Middle Ages and the
  Renaissance (London: Warburg Institute, 1952)
  
  
• Randall, Lillian, Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts
  (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966)

Islamic and Jewish Manuscripts

• Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair, Islamic Arts (London:
  Phaidon, 1997)
  
  
• Kogman-Appel, Katrin, Jewish Book Art Between Islam and
  Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval
  Spain (Boston: Brill, 2004)
  
  
• Dobbs, Jerrilynn D, ed., Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain
  (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992)

Making of Manuscripts

• Alexander, Jonathan, J.G., Medieval Illuminators and their
  Methods of Work (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992)
  
  
• De Hamel, Christopher, Scribes and Illuminators (Toronto:
  University of Toronto Press, 2002)

Psalters

• Geddes, Jane, “The St. Albans Psalter: The abbot and the
  anchoress,” in Christina of Markyate: A twelfth-century holy
  woman, ed. Samuel Fanous & Henrietta Leyser (New York:
  Routledge, 2004)
  
  
• Sandler, Lucy Freeman, The Peterborough Psalter in Brussels and
  Other Fenland Manuscripts (London: Harvey Miller, 1974)
  
  
• Mellinkoff, Ruth, The Horned Moses in Medieval Art and
  Thought (Los Angelos: University of California Press, 1970)

Women and the Book

• Erler & Kowaleski, eds., Women and Power in the Middle
  (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1988)
  
  
• McCash, June, ed., The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women
  (Athens, GA: London, 1966)