11 January

  • Palaeography and Book Circulation
  • Types of Scripts
  • Digital Texts

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18 January

  • Inscriptions and Manuscripts
  • Rustic Capitals and Square Capitals

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25 January

  • Uncial and Half-Uncial
  • Nomina sacra

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1 February

  • Pre- and Early Carolingian Minuscules
  • Describing a manuscript

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8 February

  • Carolingian Minuscule

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  • Augustine, Retractiones, Carolingian minuscule, possibly from Tours, Central France, 820s–840s: London, British Library Harley MS 3012, fol. 2r (lines 3–15: ‘Augustinus. Quomodo … supradixeris.’)
  • Benedict, Rule, Carolingian minuscule, from St Gall, mid-ninth century: St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 914, p. 16 (lines 1–14, ‘Abbas … spargatur’)

15 February

  • The Apparatus Criticus
  • Punctuation

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22 February
No class for reading week
27 February
Passion of Perpetua and Felicity transcriptions due

1 March

  • Protogothic
  • Dealing with Textual Variation

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The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity 5, ‘Post paucos dies … a me contristatus’:

For manuscript descriptions, see Thomas J. Heffernan, The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), Appendix I: Manuscripts and Editions.

8 March

  • Late Carolingian scripts
  • Gothic Textualis
  • Perpetua and Felicity edition due

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15 March

  • Gothic Cursive
  • Group edition draft due

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17 March
Drop date

22 March

  • Gothic Hybrida and Semihybrida

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29 March

  • Humanist Minuscule and Cursive
  • The Beginnings of Print

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5 April

  • Manuscripts in the Early Modern Period
  • Group edition due

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