125 plates. French edition, by Remi Coulon: Paléographie latine. Trèves, etc., 1910 [1908-10]. 125 plates.

See also Steffens's Proben aus Handschriften Lateinischer Schriftsteller [18 facsimile plates], Trier, [1907].

244. THOMPSON, E. M. Handbook of Greek and Latin palæography. London, 1893; 3rd edition, 1906.-[Enlarged edition]: An introduction to Greek and Latin palæography. Oxford, 1912. 250 plates.

Valuable; Wattenbach calls it' das beste Handbuch.'

245. THOYTS, E. E. How to decipher and study old documents. London, 1893; 3rd edition, revised, 1909.

A popular handbook, of little value.

246. WAILLY, NATALIS DE.

2 vols. Paris, 1838.

An elaborate work.

Eléments de paléographie.

247. WALTHER, J. L. Lexicon diplomaticum, abbreviationes vocum in diplomatibus exponens. 3 pts. Göttingen, 1745-47; another edition, Ulm, 1756.

The fullest dictionary of abbreviations.

248. WATTENBACH, WILHELM. Anleitung zur lateinischen Palaeographie. Leipsic, 1869; 4th edition, 1886.

249. * Das Schriftwesen im Mittelalter. Leipsic, 1871 ; 3rd edition, 1896.

250. WRIGHT, ANDREW. Court-hand restored, or the student's assistant in reading old deeds, charters, etc. London, 1776.-10th edition, by C. Trice Martin, 1912.

b. FACSIMILES.

Many of the preceding works contain facsimiles. See also Hardy, Catalogue of Materials (No. 45), vol. iii., 20 plates; and the Epinal Glossary (No. 1483). Facsimiles of Welsh and Irish MSS. will be found in the Series of Welsh Texts edited by John Rhys and J. G. Evans, Oxford, 1887, etc. (The Text of the Bruts from the Red Book of Hergest, The Text of the Book of Llan Dâv, etc., Nos. 1374, 1728, 2674), notably Facsimile of the Black Book of Carmarthen, 1888 ('diplomatic' reproduction

of the same MS., Pwllheli, 1906); and in various other 'books,' like the Book of Leinster, published by the Royal Irish Academy. Most of the following collections are elaborate and expensive. Those published by the English Ordnance Survey (Nos. 256, 258, 260–62) are marred by many inaccuracies. For fuller lists of facsimiles, see Gabriel Meier's Die Fortschritte der Palaeographie mit Hilfe der Photographie, in Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, 1900, xvii. 1-32, 113-30, 191-8, 255-78; [Henri Omont], Listes des Recueils de Facsimilés et des Reproductions de Manuscrits conservés à la Bibliothèque Nationale, in Revue des Bibliothèques, 1903, xiii. 111-178 (also, re-arranged alphabetically by authors, in Bulletin de la Société Française de Reproductions de Manuscrits à Peintures, Paris, 1911; 2nd edition, separately printed, 1912); and Poupardin and Prou, Liste des Recueils de Facsimile de Chartes, in Actes du Congrès International pour la Reproduction des Manuscrits, des Monnaies, et des Sceaux (Brussels, 1905), 217-57. There are also valuable facsimiles of some of the chief literary texts; e.g. that of the Ellesmere Chaucer, 2 vols., Manchester University Press, 1911.

251. Album paléographique [ed. Léopold Delisle]. Société de l'Ecole des Chartes. Paris, 1887. 50 plates.

252. ANDERSON, JAMES. Selectus diplomatum et numismatum Scotia thesaurus. Edinburgh, 1739. 180 plates.

253. Appendix to reports from the record commissioners: engraved facsimiles inserted in the works of the record commission. [London], 1819. 86 plates.

See No. 489.

254. CASLEY, DAVID. Catalogue of the MSS. of the king's library [British Museum]. London, 1734. 16 plates.

255. Catalogue of ancient manuscripts in the British Museum [ed. E. M. Thompson and G. F. Warner]. Pt. ii. London, 1884. 61 plates.

255a. CHROUST, ANTON. Monumenta palæographica. Ist series. 3 vols. Munich, 1902 [1899]-06.-2nd series, pts. i.xiii., 1909-13.

255b. [Collotype facsimiles of Irish manuscripts in the Bodleian library, no. 1:] Rawlinson B. 502; a collection of pieces in prose and verse in the Irish language, ed. Kuno Meyer. Oxford, 1909.

256. Domesday book, or the great survey of William the Conqueror [facsimiles of the parts relating to the various counties, ed. W. B. Sanders]. 33 pts. in 35 vols. Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1861-64.

257. Facsimiles of ancient charters in the British Museum [Anglo-Saxon period, ed. E. A. Bond]. 4 pts. London, 1873-78. 144 plates. Facsimiles of royal and other charters in the British Museum, ed. G. F. Warner and H. J. Ellis. Vol. i., Wm. I.– Rich. I. London, 1903. 50 plates.

258. Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, ed. W. B. Sanders. 3 pts. Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 187884. 121 plates.

259. Facsimiles of manuscripts and inscriptions, ed. E. A. Bond, E. M. Thompson, and G. F. Warner. Palæographical Soc. 3 vols. London, 1873-83; 2nd series, 2 vols., 1884-94; indexes, 1901.-Facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, ed. E. M. Thompson and others. New Palæographical Soc. Pts. i.-x. 1903-12. 250 plates.

London,

The two series published by the Palæographical Society contain 465 plates, embracing writings of all ages and of all regions of Europe.

260. Facsimiles of national manuscripts [of England], from William the Conqueror to Queen Anne [ed. W. B. Sanders]. 4 pts. Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1865-68. 341 facsimiles.

261. Facsimiles of national manuscripts of Ireland, ed. J. T. Gilbert. 4 pts. in 5 vols. London, etc., 1874-84. 182 facsimiles. The introductions were also separately printed: Account of Facsimiles of National MSS. of Ireland (London, 1884).

262. Facsimiles of national manuscripts of Scotland [ed. Cosmo Innes]. 3 pts. Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1867-71 272 facsimiles.

262a. JOHNSON, C., and JENKINSON, C. H. English court hand, illustrated chiefly from the public records, 1066-1500. In the press.

Contains many valuable facsimiles.

263. Recueil de fac-similés à l'usage de l'Ecole des Chartes. 4 pts. Paris, 1880-[87]. 100 plates, containing 185 facsimiles.

263a. Rouleau mortuaire du B. Vital, abbé de Savigné, contenant 207 titres écrits en 1122-1123 dans différentes églises de France et d'Angleterre, ed. Léopold Delisle. Phototypic edition. Paris, 1909.

264. SILVESTRE, [J. B.]. Paléographie universelle collection de fac-simile d'écritures de tous les peuples. 4 vols. Paris, 1839-41. Translated by Frederic Madden: Universal palæography. 2 vols. London, 1850.

265. SKEAT, W. W. Twelve facsimiles of old English manuscripts. Oxford, 1892.

266. WESTWOOD, J. O. Facsimiles of the miniatures and ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish manuscripts. London, 1868. 53 plates.

§ 7. SPHRAGISTICS AND HERALDRY.

a. Sphragistics, Nos. 267-76.

b. Heraldry, Nos. 277-95.

a. SPHRAGISTICS.

There are good accounts of this subject in Bresslau's Handbuch (No. 228), ch. xix., and Giry's Manuel (No. 233), ch. ix. See also Nos. 235, 284. There is a long list of works concerning seals in A List of Books and Pamphlets in the National Art Library, South Kensington Museum, illustrating Seals, London, 1886, pp. 46. A recent popular handbook, English Seals, by J. H. Bloom, London, 1906, cannot be commended. It is much to be regretted that the Public Record Office has published nothing of value with reference to the vast collection of seals which it contains,

267. BIRCH, W. DE GRAY. Catalogue of seals in the department of manuscripts in the British Museum. 6 vols. London, 1887-1900. 90 plates.-On some MSS. and seals relating to Wales in the British Museum. Cambrian Archæol. Assoc., Archæologia Cambrensis, 5th series, vi. 273-92. London, 1889.

268. History of Scottish seals. 2 vols. 1905-07. 126 plates.

See also his Seals (Connoisseurs' Library), London, [1907].

Stirling,

269. CHASSANT, ALPHONSE, and DELBARRE, P. J. Dictionnaire de sigillographie, contenant toutes les notions propres à faciliter l'étude des sceaux. Paris, 1860.

270. DEMAY, GERMAIN. Le costume au moyen-âge d'après les sceaux. Paris, 1880.-Inventaire des sceaux [Flandre, 2 vols.; Artois et Picardie, 1 vol.; Normandie, I vol.]. 4 vols. Paris, 1873-81.-Inventaire des sceaux de la collection Clairambault à la Bibliothèque Nationale. Documents Inédits. 2 vols. Paris, 1885-86.

There is a good account of sphragistics on pp. 3-76 of Le Costume; but this work is less important for the study of seals than the Inventaire, 1873-81. See also his Paléographie des Sceaux, Paris, 1881, pp. 73.

Sceaux.

270a. DOUËT D'ARCO, LOUIS. Collection de [France, Archives de l'Empire, Inventaires et Documents.] 3 vols. in 2. Paris, 1863-68.

Elements of sphragistics, vol. i. pp. xvii.-cix.; English seals, i. 110-13, iii. 261-309.

271. GROTEFEND, HERMANN. Ueber Sphragistik. Breslau, 1875. pp. 54.

271a. HOWARD DE WALDEN, Lord [T. E. ELLIS]. feudal lords and their seals, 1301. [London], 1904.

272. LAING, HENRY. Descriptive catalogue of impressions from ancient Scottish seals, A.D. 1094 to the Commonwealth. Maitland Club. Edinburgh, 1850.-Supplement, A.D. 1150 to the eighteenth century, 1866.

Contains 44 valuable plates.

273. LECOY DE LA Marche, ALBERT. Les sceaux. Paris, [1889].

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