Teaching with Medieval Books in Special Collections

The following modules on medieval manuscripts and early printed books are available online through The Book: Histories Across Time and Space on EdX through HarvardX:

• Making and Meaning in the Medieval Manuscript
• Scrolls in the Age of the Book
• The Medieval Book of Hours: Art and Devotion in the Later Middle Ages
• Books in the Medieval Liturgy
• The Book: Print and Manuscript in Western Europe, Asia and the Middle East (1450-1650)

The following courses from Rare Book School at the University of Virginia focus on early printing or manuscripts. Reading lists are available online:

• H-10. The History of the Book, 200–2000
• H-30. The Printed Book in the West to 1800
• M-10. Introduction to Paleography, 800–1500
• M-20. Seminar in Western Codicology
• M-50. Introduction to Illuminated Manuscripts
• M-55. The Book of Hours, 1250–1550
• M-70. The Handwriting & Culture of Early Modern English Manuscripts
• M-85. Introduction to Islamic Manuscripts
• M-90. Advanced Seminar in Medieval Manuscript Studies
• M-95. The Medieval Manuscript in the Twenty-First Century

Texas A&M University offers an annual workshop on the operation of a hand press. Further information can be found here:

• Book History Workshop