A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 by Michelle P. Brown Provides a synopsis of each of the major phases of development, a bibliography at the beginning of each section, and comments on regional and chronological diffusion where appropriate. Each plate is accompanied by a facing page of commentary giving a brief description of the manuscript and its script, followed by a transcription of the text.

Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Bernhard Bischoff; Dáibhí Ó Cróinín A comprehensive account of the history of Latin script. It also contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance, which outlines the history of book illumination.

The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books by Albert Derolez A survey of all book scripts in use in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530 (with the exception of Humanistic script).