Resources

Books:

Altmann, Barbara K. The Love Debate Poems of Christine De Pizan. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1998.

Ashley, Kathleen M. and Wim N. M. Hüsken. Moving Subjects: Processional Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Atlanta, GA: Editions Rodopi, 2001.

Bonniwell, William R. A History of the Dominican Liturgy. New York: J. F. Wagner, 1944.

Cappelli, Adriano. Lexicon Abbreviaturarum. Dizionario Di Abbreviature Latine Ed Italiane Usate Nelle Carte E Codici Specialmente Del Medio-evo, Riprodotte Con Oltre 14000 Segni Incisi Con L’aggiunta Di Uno Studio Sulla Brachigrafia Medioevale, Un Prontuario Di Sigle Epigrafiche, L’antica Numeraz. Romana Ed Arabica Ed I Segni Indicanti Monete Pesi, Misure, Etc. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1912.

Cappelli, Adriano, David Heimann, and Richard Kay. The Elements of Abbreviation in Medieval Latin Paleography. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Libraries, 1982.

Cattin, Giulio. Music of the Middle Ages. Trans. Steven Botterill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Clemens, Raymond, and Timothy Graham. Introduction to Manuscript Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.

Derolez, Albert. The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Drogin, Marc. Medieval Calligraphy Its History and Technique. Montclair: Allanheld & Schram, 1980.

Ferguson, Gary. “Rules for Writing: ‘The Dames De Poissy.'” The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices ed. Thomas M. Carr, pp. 44-58. Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood, 2007.

Gui, Bernard. Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France, vol. 23. Paris, 1876.

Gy, P.M. “Collectaire, rituel, processional.” Revue des sciences philosophiques et theologiques 44 (1960): 441-69.

Hamburger, Jeffrey. “Art, Enclosure and the Cura Monialium: Prolegomena in the Guise of a Postscript.” Gesta 31, 3 Monastic Architecture for Women (1992): 108-134.

Hamel, Christopher De. The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination: History and Techniques. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2001.

Hiley, David. Western Plainchant: A Handbook. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.

Hoppin, Richard H. Medieval Music. New York: W.W. Norton, 1978.

Hughes, Andrew. Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office: A Guide to Their Organization and Terminology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982.

Huglo, Michel. Les Livres de Chant Liturgique. Brepols: Belgium, 1988.

Huglo, Michel. Les Manuscrits Du Processional. München: G. Henle Verlag, 1999.

Humbert of Romans, Opera de Vita Regulari, vol. II, ed. J. J. Berthier. Turin, 1956

Kells, Kathleen E. “Christine De Pisan’s Le Dit De Poissy: An Explanation of an Alternate Life-Style for Aristocratic Women in Fifteenth-Century France.” New Images of Medieval Women: Essays toward a Cultural Anthropology. Ed. Edelgard E. DuBruck. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen, 1989.

Kelly, Thomas Forrest. Capturing Music the Story of Notation. New York: Norton, 2015.

Lee, Paul. Nunneries, Learning, and Spirituality in Late Medieval English Society: The Dominican Priory of Dartford. Suffolk, UK: York Medieval, 2001.

Moreau-Rendu, Suzanne. Le Prieure Royal de Saint-Louis de Poissy. Colmar: Imprimerie Alsatia, 1968.

Naughton, Joan. “From Unillustrated Book to Illustrated Book: Personalization and Change in the Poissy Processional.” Manuscripta 43/44 (1999-2000): 161-87.

Naughton, Joan. Manuscripts from the Dominican Monastery of Saint-Louis de Poissy. Dissertation, The University of Melbourne. Melbourne: Minerva Access, 1995.

Naughton, Joan. “The Poissy Antiphonary in its Royal Monastic Milieu,” La Trobe Library Journal 51-52 (1993): 38-49.

Yardley, Anne Bagnall . Performing Piety: Musical Culture and Medieval English Nunneries. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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

 

Digital sources:

 

Bryn Mawr acquired the processional from Les Enluminures, which also furnished a complete scholarly description of the manuscript and notes on its history and significance, available here.

CANTUS, run by the University of Waterloo, is a searchable database of Latin ecclesiastical chant from manuscripts and early printed works. An entry for the processional is in progress.

Several editions of the Liber Usualis, including the 1957 and 1961 volumes, are available for use and download online.

The Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis project (SIMSSA) explores digital technologies that read and search medieval scores. Its Liber Usualis page allows users to search for musical passages in the 1961 edition of the Liber Usualis.

Another late-Gothic Poissy processional is available in full on this site, from Reed College Special Collections, Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library. It offers a useful comparison with the Bryn Mawr manuscript.

Joan Naughton’s dissertation, Manuscripts from the Dominican Monastery of Saint-Louis de Poissy, (cited above) is an invaluable resource on manuscripts from Poissy. It is available in full through the University of Melbourne’s library.

 

Some broader online resources for the study of medieval manuscripts:

 

The DMMap is an interactive map of digitized manuscripts around the world.

Sexy Codicology is a wonderfully-named blog that updates regularly with news on the study, and particularly the digital study, of medieval manuscripts.

Good, although incomplete, lists of digitized medieval manuscripts are available through:

The library of the University of Tennessee, Martin

Siân Echard, Department of English, University of British Columbia

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the UCLA. (Work on this project stopped in 2013, but the existing catalogue is still active.)

Students in the Philadelphia area may be especially interested to read about the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, which combines digital studies and manuscript studies.

 

Bonus:

 

Finally, if you find yourself really tired of the Middle Ages and of non-fiction, check out Honore de Balzac’s “The Merry Tattle of the Nuns of Poissy,” available here and for download along with Balzac’s anthology of Droll Stories Collected from the the Abbeys of Touraine.