How to correctly reference manuscripts

Seeing as this blog is all about manuscripts and using them for your research, I thought I might show you how to read that tangle of numbers and letters and often foreign-language words that might crop up in a book, article or blogpost and how to correctly generate that style of reference too. 

PSA

Hello all,

I am thinking of, at least temporarily, mothballing this blog. I.e. it will remain up as a resource for everyone to use but I will at least temporarily stop updating it.

Mostly this is because I have no real idea of how useful it is for people. Blogger stats tell me how many individuals visit, but not how many actually actively use this site.

So, if you use or like to read this blog and would like to see more posts in the future, please can you comment here.

Thanks!
~Miriam

Miscellany and Tristan Romance (BL Add. MS 11619)

Tristan in the bath, f. 6v.

Colloquial name(s): Part 1: Miscellany; Part 2: drawings illustrating the Tristan romance
Official name(s): British Library Additional MS 11619

Date: Part 1: 2nd half of 13th C or 1st quarter of 14th C; Part 2: 2nd or 3rd quarter of 13th C
Origin: Part 1: England or France; Part 2: London (?), S.E. (?) England

Online facsimile available via: British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

Ordo missalis secundum consuetudidem romane curie (Vatican, BAV, Pal. lat. 504)

The Nativity, including a wise man and an angel, f. 24v.

Colloquial name(s): Ordo missalis secundum consuetudidem romane curie

Official name(s): Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Palatini latini 504

Date: 14th Century (source), third quarter of 14th Century (judging by costume)

Origin: unknown

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital

Französische Bibel (Vatican, BAV, Pal. lat 1957)

Ruth gleans wheat in Boaz's field, f. 53v.

Colloquial name(s): Französische Bibel

Official name(s): Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Palatini latini 1957

Date: early 14th Century (source)

Origin: N.E. France (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital

Sammelhandschrift (Vatican, BAV, Pal. lat. 927)

Adam, Seth and Enos, f. 18r.

Colloquial name(s): Sammelhandschrift

Official name(s): Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Palatini latini 927

Date: 12th Century (source)

Origin: Verona, Italy (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

Lectionarium epistolarum missae ex Vetere et Novo Testamento, per anni circulum (Vatican, BAV, Pal. lat. 497)

Jesus enters Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, f. 31r.

Colloquial name(s): Lectionarium epistolarum missae ex Vetere et Novo Testamento, per anni circulum

Official name(s): Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Palatini latini 497

Date: 12th Century (source)

Origin: unknown (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

Moralia sive Expositio in Iob (lib. I-XVIII) (Vatican, BAV, Pal. lat. 251)

Job's complaint and the visit of his three friends who comfort him, f. 53r.

Colloquial name(s): Moralia sive Expositio in Iob (lib. I-XVIII)

Official name(s): Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Palatini latini 251

Date: c. 1170-75 (source)

Origin: Frankenthal, Pfalz, Germany (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

Kalendarium, Psalterium (Vatican, BAV, Pal. lat. 39)

David accompanied by musicians, f. 44v.

Colloquial name(s): Kalendarium, Psalterium (in English: Calendar, Psalter)

Official name(s): Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Palatini latini 39

Date: second quarter (calendar) and second third (psalter) of 11th Century (source)

Origin: Lorsch, Germany (calendar) and Alsace (?), France (psalter) (source)

Online facsimile available via: Bibliotheca Laureshamensis Digital

Biblia: Testamentum vetus (Vatican, BAV, Pal. lat. 3 & 4)

Joshua with a scroll.
 BAV, Pal. lat. 3, f. 68r.

Colloquial name(s): Biblia: Testamentum vetus (pars prior) and Biblia: Testamentum vetus (pars altera) - in English, the Old Testament (first part) and the Old Testament (second part)

Official name(s): Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Palatini latini 3 and Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Palatini latini 4

Date: second half of 11th Century or 1080/1090 (source and source)

Origin: central Italy (source and source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital for BAV, Pal. lat. 3 and BAV, Pal. lat. 4 via HeidICON for BAV, Pal. lat. 3 and BAV, Pal. lat. 4

Willehalm von Orlens (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 323)

Willehalm swears to stave Amelie until she hears him, f. 87v.

Colloquial name(s): Willehalm von Orlens

Official name(s): Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Codices Palatini germanici 323

Date: 'workshop of 1418', c. 1420 (source)

Origin: Strasboug (Straßburg), France (historically Germany) (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

Ortnit, Wolfdietrich (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 365)

Ortnit the knight rides at the dragon, f. 1v.

Colloquial name(s): Ortnit, Wolfdietrich

Official name(s): Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Codices Palatini germanici 365

Date: 'workshop of 1418', c. 1420 (source)

Origin: Straßburg (Strasbourg), France (historically Germany) (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

Rosengarten zu Worms, Lucidarius (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 359)

Rüdiger and Gernot fight, f. 39r.

Colloquial name(s): Rosengarten zu Worms, Lucidarius

Official name(s): Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Codices Palatini germanici 359

Date: 1420 (source)

Origin: Straßburg (Strasbourg), France (historically Germany) (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

Weltchronik (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 336)

Saul dies during a battle, f. 32r.

Colloquial name(s): Weltchronik
Official name(s): Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Codices Palatini germanici 336

Date: c. 1420 (source)
Origin: Passau(?), Bavaria, Germany (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

Spiegel menschlicher gesuntheit (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 432)

The marriage of Saras and Tobias, f. 10r.

Colloquial name(s): Spiegel menschlicher gesuntheit (Mirror of Human Happiness)

Official name(s): Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Codices Palatini germanici 432

Date: 1420-30 (source)

Origin: Mittelrhein (Middle Rhine), Germany (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

Elsässische Legenda Aurea (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 144)

Matthew preaches to the Moors, f. 120v.

Colloquial name(s): Elsässische Legenda Aurea (The Alsace Golden Legend, The Alsatian Golden Legend)

Official name(s): Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Codices Palatini germanici 144

Date: 1419 (source)

Origin: Straßburg (Strasbourg), France (historically Germany) (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

Eneas (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 403)

Dido says goodbye to Eneas, f. 44v.

Colloquial name(s): Eneas

Official name(s): Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Codices Palatini germanici 403

Date: 1419 (source)

Origin: Straßburg (Strasbourg), France (historically Germany) (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

Die 24 Alten (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 27)

The third elder speaks to a queen who shows her stigmata, f. 8v.

Colloquial name(s): Die 24 Alten (The 24 Elders)

Official name(s): Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Codices Palatini germanici 27

Date: 1418 (source)

Origin: Straßburg (Strasbourg), France (historically Germany) (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

Lieder, Briefe und Reden (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 329)

Historiated initial containing a queen holding a scepter, f. 1r.

Colloquial name(s): Lieder, Briefe und Reden (Songs, Letters and Speeches)

Official name(s): Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Codices Palatini germanici 329

Date: 1414/15 (source)

Origin: Steiermark (Styria), Austria (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

Der Meide Kranz (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 14)

Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, flanked by six female allegories
 of the arts and sciences, come to a contest, f. 2v.

Colloquial name(s): Der Meide Kranz

Official name(s): Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Codices Palatini germanici

Date: 1407 (source)

Origin: Bavaria (Bayern), Germany (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON