Annotated Bib

    Bishop, Terence Alan Martyn. “English Caroline Minuscule” / By T.A.M. Bishop. n.p.: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1971., 1971. Print.
Included several looks at different examples of caroline minuscule. Some early but mostly more recent examples of how it’s evolved. It wasn’t the most useful source but it did provide a look with how regular lowercase text really is very similar to caroline minuscule. Which helped me understand what other texts were saying about them being similar but to actually see it was totally different. I was able to then align the two on one page to show the audience my findings.

    Claassens, G. H. M., and Werner Verbeke. Medieval Manuscripts in Transition:
Tradition and Creative Recycling. Leuven: Leuven UP, 2006. Print.
Provides an in depth look at the contextual influence of the time during the medieval and middle ages. What I got from this book was a better idea that even though there was such a raise in Christianity, that the influence of the Pagan Roman religion was still present and had an influence shaping the content of the type, as well as, the type itself. For instance, there is a chapter about Eros, the God of love being modified for a Christian audience to better suite the time. Just as the manuscript lettering seems to closely relates to Roman Rustic writing.

    Drogin, Marc. Medieval Calligraphy:Its History and Technique. New York: Dover Publications, 1989. Print.
While this was more of a how-to book, when I first picked it up, I stuck with it because of the the fact that it covered so many of the study topics that I would need to know for Project 1 since it covered type style from the fourth thru fifteenth centuries. However, there were facts that I used about Carolingian Minuscule, Roman Rustic writing and even some about gothic. The thing that really helped were the pictures of each typestyle. Which includes a step by step guide on how to replicate the typestyles. This was helpful in breaking down the characteristics of the typefaces.
Things like, stroke weight and serifs. 

    Dumville, D. N. English Caroline Script And Monastic History : Studies In Benedictinism, A.D. 950-1030 / David N. Dumville. n.p.: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell, 1993., 1993. Print.
Provided a very detailed look at the English zeitgeist during the tenth century. Including how the rule of St. Benedict influenced the different forms that were later developed out of Charlemagne’s initial ordering of the typeface. Which included the English reform that lead away from the use of the initial blackletter that were more difficult to produce and read.

    Hattaway, Michael. Ioppolo, Grace. "Early Modern Handwriting." New Companion To English Renaissance Literature & Culture (2010): 177. Print.
This was another collection book with different papers by different experts on the subject of early handwriting. It was interesting because for the life of me it was difficult to understand and seemed more meant for other experts in the field. However, some thing that I found interesting was one section by Grace Ioppolo. Which discussed the way handwriting plays a role in what kind of typestyle would be used for a given text. With the idea that a single text could be written in multiple typestyles as what would be  deemed appropriate for said document.

    Madan, Falconer. Books in Manuscript: A Short Introduction to Their Study and Use,
with a Chapter on Records. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner &, 1893. Print.
This is the creme de la creme source. I actually just stumbled on this source while
looking for another book. It spoke to me. Upon reading through it, it’s filled with
everything including manuscript information. It has a history on the different writing
materials, the history of writing itself. As well as, famous manuscripts. It’s my go to
source for kind of an overall brief on early writing history. The amazing thing is that the
book looks so old, tattered and worn out, being published in 1893, but it’s filled with so
much good information.

    Scott, Kathleen L. Tradition and Innovation in Later Medieval English Manuscripts.
London England: British Library, 2007. Print.
This source discusses and takes a close look at Medieval Manuscripts, with careful
attention paid towards the fifteenth century. Which was a time when primarily religious
tales were written down. Many of which were Christian stories, which this source
primarily focuses on. Many of the manuscripts contained different pieces of artwork that
would pertain to the content of the manuscript. Which is why I selected it for a source, I
want to use some of the images in it to show how the type, which seems so regal and
elegant works perfectly with the artwork.

    Shaw, David J. "Notes On Some French Textura Gothic Types Of The Late Fifteenth
And Early Sixteenth Centuries." Hellinga: Festschrift/Feestbundel/Mélanges. 441-446.
Amsterdam: Isreal, 1980. Print.
This text was from the book: The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance which was a collection of different papers on Sixteenth-Century typefaces. I initially picked up this book because I saw that this paper by David Shaw had to do with Textura Gothic type. Up to the point that I had picked it up, I had yet to find a good source which at that point even included Gothic type by it’s other name of textura. However, this would not be one of those sources. This paper talked about the importance of different letter cutters during the French Renaissance and include some allusion to which typefaces they used. However, the fact that textura was being used in Europe during the fifteenth century was import because it showed that it was not only limited to a small concentration of the continent.

Pictures Finally

Finally I'm sitting in class and the pictures that I've had on my phone for practically the whole semester are able to upload. I realized there were some images that I didn't even write about because I wouldn't able to upload them. So this post is gonna be a mashing of images.
I've got a box of cigarettes from India. My buddy got them awhile and I couldn't help but notice the type on the box itself. So simple. Yet so beautiful. Looking at it again now I have a better understanding of the serifs themselves.
Then I have the sign outside City Lights in North Beach. A bookstore had to have some eye-catching type outside of it.
Then the final one which I just love graffiti art was a Banksy inspired piece in North Beach which I always love the way the type looks so handwritten when it comes to Banksy style art.