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Medieval Studies—Sources & Source collections

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Introduction aux sources de l'histoire medievale (D117.C23313 1997, Lane Rm). The first section has also been published separately as Manuel des etudes medievales: typologie des sources, historique, grandes collections (D113.C34 1997, Stacks). Prof. Caenegem's typology section should be supplemented by relevant fascicles in Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental, 1972- (Z6203.T95, Lane Rm). Some of the volumes have updates, Mises a Jour, or new editions. Most volumes of the set do not have separate catalog records in Socrates. Another recent guide covering sources and reference works is Berlioz et al. (1994) Identifier sources et citations (CB351.B4, Lane Rm). In a similar vein as a practical guide to interpreting sources, though more limited in its scope, is Kaske (1988) Medieval Christian Literary Imagery: A Guide to Interpretation (Z6203.K38, Lane Rm). Mantello and Rigg (1996) Medieval Latin: an introduction and bibliographical guide (PA2802.M43, Lane Rm) largely supersedes McGuire (1977) Introduction to Medieval Latin Studies, 2 ed (PA2816.M24, Lane Rm) as the standard, indispensable handbook for Medieval Latin. David Knowles writes about the history of the Bolandists, Maurists, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, and Rolls Series (Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi scriptores) in Great Historical Enterprises, and there is much fascinating information about the scholars that created the great collections in the three volumes of Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies in the Formation of a Discipline (D116.5.M43, Lane Rm). The chapter on Georg Waitz describes how the disciple of Leopold von Ranke played a major role in establishing the modern standard of critically-edited Medieval texts after joining Georg Pertz at the MGH. Later in his career he collaborated on the great bibliographical project Quellenkunde der deutschen Geschichte, whose revision is listed in the section General Bibliographies and Other Guides.

There are also reference books designed for students which typically cover both source collections and works of reference; these include Powell (1992) Medieval Studies: an introduction, 2 ed. (D116.M4); Pacaut (1968) Guide de l'étudiant ... (Z6203.P25); Halphen (1952) Initiation aux études ..., 3 ed (Z6203.H2); Boscolo (1975) Fonti della storia medioevo (D116.B58); and Quirin (1985) Einfuehrung in das Studium ..., 4 ed., D118.Q5. A revised, abbreviated English language version of Quirin's overview of sources (pp.243-52) is Bak (1987) Medieval Narrative Sources: A Chronological Guide, (Z6203.B33); see especially his "Major Bibliographies of Narrative Sources," pp. xv-xviii).

Standard Abbreviations

• "Elenchus abreviationum." 47 pp. Bound as the second fascicle in vol. 1 of Compendium auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi (500-1500): C.A.L.M.A. SISMEL, 2000-. PA8001 .C66 Lane Rm.
• "Abkürzungsverzeichnis", Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon. 1990-1998.
• Repertorium Fontium . . . Fontes. Vol. 2, pp. 3-87 list of abbreviations for collections of narrative sources. Z6203.R426 1962
• Mantello and Rigg. 1996. Medieval Latin: an introduction and bibliographical guide PA2802.M43
• Bak. 1987.Medieval Narrative Sources: A Chronological Guide. Pages. xiii+: a selective list covering only the major collections. Z6203.B33
• Crosby. 1983.Medieval Studies: a bibliographical guide. Z5579.5.C76 1983. It's name index can help identify works and sets referred to by names of editors not used or outside the scope of the Repertorium Fontium.
• Index scriptorum novus mediae latinitatis, 1973, vii+. PA2893.F7
• Dictionary of Old English: abbreviations for Latin source and bibliography of editions. PE279.D53 1992
• Dictionary of bibliographic abbreviations found in the scholarship of classical studies and related disciplines. PA99.W44 1983

Contents of Collections

See the page Authors and Texts.

Potthast's Bibliotheca historica medii aevi . . ., Z6203.P87, is the standard reference guide to the contents of published source collections, and has been largely replaced by Repertorium fontium ..., 1962+, in the Lane Room. The Repertorium covers the period from 400 to 1500; Volume 1, Series collectionum , plus supplement for 1962-72, is complete, as are a number of volumes of the Fontes , listing individual authors and works through fasc. 10/4. Fontes Sj-Sz. Individual primary source collections also have their own lists and indexes: Monumenta Germaniae Historica Gesamtverzeichneis, Z6203.M66 1992, annotated with Stanford call numbers; there is also a complete listing at the MGH site. Many volumes are on the web via the Brepols portal. There is a publications list for the first 103 volumes of the Collection de Documents Inédits sur l'Histoire de France (DC3.C5) annotated with library holdings. Few volumes have Socrates catalog records, mostly those cataloged separately. The online version of Corpus Christianorum (a.k.a. Library of Latin Texts) includes a guide listing all texts in the web edition. For Migne there are several indexes for the Patrologia Latina* and Patrologia Graeca** . Pour lire les Peres de l'Église, BR1706.P4 1988, STACK, is a guide to Sources Chretiennes including brief biographical and historical information.

Cartularies

• Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France. Cartulaires et recueils de chartes. Paris, Impr. nationale, 1839-94.
  Physical Description: 16 v. 29 cm.
• Davis. 1958. Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain. Z2018.D3, Info Center.
• Stein. 1907. Bibliographie générale des cartulaires français ou relatifs à l'histoire de France. Z2178 .S85, Lane Rm.
• Vérité. 2003. Répertoire des cartulaires français : Provinces ecclésiastiques d'Aix, Arles, Embrun, Vienne, Diocèse de Tarentaise / publié par Isabelle Vérité ... [et al.] ; avec la collaboration d'Olivier Guyotjeannin ... [et al.]. CNRS.

NOTES

* PL on the web provides fulltext searching of the entire set, i.e., the original 221 volumes. There may still be times when the student wishes to consult the older, printed indices; for detailed information see Berlioz (1994) Identifier sources et citations, pp. 279-94, CB351.B4. Volumes 218-221 of PL are extensive chronological, biographical, statistical, geographical and other sorts of indices for the main set; the Supplement, 1958-1974, has its own index. There are Elucidation in 235 tabulas, 1952, BR60.P38 suppl.1952 (keyword index); Conspectus auctorum, 1965, BR60.P38 suppl.1965. Corrections concerning texts in PL are found in Glorieux (1952) Pour revaloriser Migne, BR60.P38 suppl.1952. A complete copy of PL is shelved in the Medieval Studies Room Room 351D, Green Library; a second copy with some missing volumes is shelved in Stacks.

** Indexes for PG are found in Cavallera (1912) Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Graeca. Indices, BR60.P4 suppl.1960; and in Author Index of Byzantine Studies (name index only).

*** On Mansi, see Henri Quentin, Jean Dominique Mansi et les grandes collections concilaires (Paris, 1900).

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