Publications

Books and catalogues

• Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of University College, Oxford (in preparation: Oxford, 2026)
  
• Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY, 2024)
• The McCarthy Collection, III: French Miniatures (London, 2021) [PDF of Introduction]
• The McCarthy Collection, II: Spanish, English, Flemish and Central European Miniatures (London, 2019)
• 500 Years: Treasures from the Library of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (London, 2017)
• Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of The Queen's College, Oxford (Oxford, 2016)
• Books of Hours / Livres d'Heures (London, 2014) [PDF]
• [With Kristen Collins and Nancy K. Turner] The St. Albans Psalter: Painting and Prayer in Medieval England (Los Angeles, 2013)
• 'Supplement to the Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library', Huntington Library Quarterly, 72 no. 4 (2009), pp.1–101. [PDF]
• Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of T. R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Oxford, 2001).
• A Second Selection of Illuminated Manuscripts from c.1000 to c.1522: The Property of Mr J. R. Ritman, Sold for the Benefit of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam [auction catalogue, Sotheby's] (London, 2001).
• Western Manuscripts and Miniatures [auction catalogue, Sotheby's] (2001).
• Western Manuscripts and Miniatures [auction catalogue, Sotheby's] (2000).
• Illuminated Manuscripts, Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Blumka Gallery, New York, January–February, 1999 (London, 1998).

Articles and chapters

• ‘Fragments from the So-Called St Geneviève Bible’, Libri & Documenti [in press, 2025]
• ‘Leaves from a Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Bible’, Bodleian Library Record, 35.1–2 (‘2022’ [2024]), pp. 198–203
• [With Beatrice Alai] 'Cuttings from an Illustrated Twelfth-Century French Manuscript Bible at the Getty Museum and the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett', Getty Research Journal (in press, April 2024)
• 'The Provenance of the Manuscript', in Liber Astrologiae: Abū Ma'shar Treatise, ed. by Manuel Moleiro (Barcelona: Moleiro, 2023), pp.363–69
• 'The Provenance of the Manuscript', in Mattioli's Dioscorides, Illustrated by Cibo: [London, BL,] Add. Ms. 22332 (Barcelona: M. Moleiro, 2021), pp.451–53
• 'Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of Captain Jack Ball', in Beyond Words: New Research on Manuscripts in Boston Collections, ed. by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and others (Toronto: PIMS, 2021), pp.283–300, 349–50
• 'Illuminating the Past', in Taste, Trade and Europe: National Trust Historic Houses and Collections Annual 2019 (National Trust, in association with Apollo, 2019), pp.23–28
• 'The Use of Price-Codes (and Associated Marks) in Provenance Research', in [Ian Jackson], Chamberpot and Motherfuck: The Price-Codes of the Book-Trade (Narberth, 2017), pp.61–83
• 'Medieval Origins Revealed by Modern Provenance: The Case of the Bywater Missal', Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, 1 no.2 (2016), pp.273–92 [PDF available online]
• [short catalogue entry in] Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections (Boston, 2016), no.79 p.103
• [With Richard C. Hoffman] 'The Haslinger Breviary Fishing Tract, Part I', The American Fly Fisher, 42 no.2 (Spring 2016), pp.2–8
• 'The Provenance of The Hours of Marie de' Medici' and 'Summary Description', in The Flemish Book of Hours of Marie de' Medici: MS. Douce 112, Bodleian Library, Oxford; Commentary to the Facsimile Edition (Graz, 2011), pp.315–43
• 'The Provenance of the Harley Splendor Solis' and 'Appendix', in Splendor Solis: Harley MS. 3469 (Barcelona, 2011), pp.91–101, 171
• 'UCLA Rouse MS 32: The Provenance of a Dismembered Italian Illuminated Book of Hours Illuminated by the Master of the Brussels Initials', in Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users: A Special Issue of Viator in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse (Turnhout, 2011), pp.279–91
• 'An Unnoticed Photograph at Houghton Library; or, Unknown Leaves from the Library of Raphael de Marcatellis', in Piecing Together the Picture: Fragments of German and Netherlandish Manuscripts in Houghton Library, edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Harvard Library Bulletin, 21 nos.1-2 (Spring-Summer 2010), pp.143–51
• 'London, British Library, Yates Thompson MS. 10' and 'The Provenance of the Manuscript', in Apocalypsis Yates Thompson (MS. 10): Libro de estudios / Apocalypse Yates Thompson: Book of Studies (AyN Ediciones and The British Library, 2010), pp.27–46
• 'Codicological Clues to the Patronage of Stowe MS. 39: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Nun's Book in Middle English', Electronic British Library Journal [www.bl.uk/eblj/] (2009), article no.5
• 'Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 120: Overlooked and New Observations', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 13 no. 3 (2008, for 2006), pp.289–99
• 'Contents and Codicology', in The St Albans Psalter (Albani Psalter) (Simbach am Inn, 2008), pp.41–156
• 'Cantare le fede: Il Salterio di St. Albans', Alumina: Pagine Miniate, 22 (2008), pp.18–25
• 'La storia del Ms. Yates Thompson 29', 'Il contenuto del Ms. Yates Thompson 29' and 'Scheda descrittiva del manoscritto', in Il libro d'ore di Bonaparte Ghislieri, edited by Massimo Medica (Modena, 2008), pp.209–34, 235–40, and 241–47
• 'A Franciscan Bible Illuminated in the Style of W. de Brailes', Electronic British Library Journal (2007), article no.8
• 'Storia del codice: Il Codice Yates Thompson 36 dal XV al XX secolo', and 'Scheda codicologica', in La Divina commedia di Alfonso d'Aragona re di Napoli (Manoscritto Yates Thompson 36, Londra, British Library); Commentario I, edited by Milvia Bollati (Modena, 2006), pp.139–58, 187–8 [PDF of original English text]
• [With Thomas Kren] 'Reconstruction of the Hours of Louis XII', in A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII, edited by Thomas Kren (Los Angeles and London, 2005), pp.91–4
• 'In Search of Lost Miniatures', in Halina Tchórzewska-Kabata (ed.), Odnaleziona Miniatura z Psałterza Potockich / A Newly-Found Miniature from the Potocki Psalter (Warsaw, 2005) pp.12–13 (Polish) and 19–20 (English)
• 'Index V: Iconography', in N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. V, Indexes and Addenda, edited by A. G. Watson and I. C. Cunningham (Oxford, 2002), pp.224–44
• 'A Re-Examination of the Date of an Eleventh-Century Psalter from Winchester (British Library, MS Arundel 60)', in Brendan Cassidy and Rosemary Muir Wright, eds., Studies in the Illustration of the Psalter (Stamford, 2001), pp.42–54
• 'Notable Accessions: Western Manuscripts', Bodleian Library Record, 17 (2000), pp.45–50
• 'Notable Accessions: Western Manuscripts', Bodleian Library Record, 16 (1998), pp.271–3

Reviews

• Victoria & Albert Museum, 'Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings at the V&A', exhibition reviewed in The Burlington Magazine, CLXIII no. 1424 (2021), pp.1058–60
• David Pearson, Provenance Research in Book History: A Handbook (2nd edn., Oxford, 2019), reviewed in The Book Collector, 68 (2019), pp.574–6
• Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (London, 2016), reviewed in The Library, 18 (2017), pp.345–6
• Anne Margreet W. As-Vijvers, Tuliba Collection: Catalogue of Manuscripts and Miniatures from the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Hilversum, 2014), reviewed in Rare Books Newsletter, 104 (November 2016), p.22
• Wendy Scase (ed.), The Making of the Vernon Manuscript: The Production and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. a. 1 (Turnhout, 2013), reviewed in Rare Books Newsletter, 97 (August 2014), pp.16–17 [PDF]
• Virginia Reinburg, French Books of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600 (Cambridge, 2012), reviewed in The Catholic Historical Review, 99 no.2 (2013), pp.320–21
• Kathryn A. Smith, The Taymouth Hours: Stories and the Construction of Self in Late Medieval England (London, 2012), reviewed in Rare Books Newsletter, 95 (Summer, 2013), pp.26–27
• Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination, ed. by McKendrick Scot, John Lowden & Kathleen Doyle, with Joanna Frońska and Deirdre Jackson. (London, 2011), reviewed in Rare Books Newsletter, no.93 (Autumn, 2012), p.25
• Paul Binski and Patrick Zutshi with the collaboration of Stella Panayotova, Western Illuminated Manuscripts: A Catalogue of the Collection in Cambridge University Library (Cambridge, 2011), reviewed in Rare Books Newsletter, 92 (Summer, 2012), pp.16–18
• Rowan Watson, Western Illuminated Manuscripts: A Catalogue of Works in the National Art Library from the Eleventh to the Early Twentieth Century, with a Complete Account of the George Reid Collection (London, 2011), reviewed in AMARC Newsletter, 58 (2012), pp.19–22
• R. C. Alston, Inventory of Sale Catalogues of Named and Attributed Owners of books Sold by Retail or Auction 1676-1800: An Inventory of Sales in the British Isles, America, the United States, Canada and India (2010), reviewed in Rare Books Newsletter, 91 (special issue, 2012), pp.2–3
• The Medieval Book: Glosses from Friends & Colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by James H. Marrow et al. (2010), reviewed in Rare Books Newsletter, 90 (Winter, 2011)
• Christopher de Hamel, Gilding the Lilly: A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts at the Lilly Library (2010), reviewed in Rare Books Newsletter, 90 (Winter, 2011)
• B. C. Barker-Benfield, ed., Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 13: St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, reviewed in Rare Books Newsletter, 85 (Winter, 2009)
• Kathleen L. Scott, Tradition and Innovation in Later Medieval English Manuscripts (London, 2007), reviewed in Rare Books Newsletter, 83 (Summer, 2008), pp.16–17
• R. M. Thomson, Books and Learning in Twelfth-Century England: The Ending of 'Alter Orbis' (Walkern, 2006), reviewed in Rare Books Newsletter, 82 (Winter, 2008), p.27
• Neil R. Ker, Fragments of Medieval Manuscripts used as Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings, with a Survey of Oxford Binding c. 1515–1620 (Oxford, 2004), reviewed in The Library, 7 (2006), pp.459–61
• Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova, eds., The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West (Cambridge, 2005), reviewed in Rare Books Newsletter, 76 (Winter 2005), pp.63–4
• Pamela Robinson, Catalogue of Dated & Datable Manuscripts c.888–1600 in London Libraries (London, 2003), reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, 4 June 2004, p.24
• Gregory T. Clark, Made in Flanders: The Master of the Ghent Privileges and Manuscript Painting in the Southern Netherlands in the Time of Philip the Good (Turnhout, 2000), reviewed in Manuscripta, vols 45/46 for 2001/2002 (2003), pp.171–5
• A. S. G. Edwards, ed., Decoration and Illustration in Medieval English Manuscripts, English Manuscript Studies, 10 (London, 2002), reviewed in The Library, series 7, vol.4 (2003), pp.304–6
• The Benedictional of St Æthelwold, a Masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon Art: A Facsimile, with an introduction by Andrew Prescott (London, 2002), reviewed in The Burlington Magazine, 145 (2003), p.461
• Kristine Haney, The St. Albans Psalter: An Anglo-Norman Song of Faith (New York, 2002), reviewed in Medium Ævum, 72 (2003), pp.310–11
• M. C. Seymour, ed., The Defective Version of Mandeville's Travels, Early English Text Society, Original Series, 319 (Oxford, 2002), reviewed in The Library, series 7, vol. 4 (2003), pp.178–9
• Kathleen Scott, ed., An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry III c.1380–c.1509: The Bodleian Library, Oxford, Fascicle III: MSS e Musaeo–Wood (London, 2002), reviewed in The Burlington Magazine, 145 (2003), p.461
• Susie Nash, Between France and Flanders: Manuscript Illumination in Amiens (London, 1999), reviewed in The Library (2001), pp.179–80
• Alan Coates, English Medieval Books: The Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal (Oxford, 1999), reviewed in Journal of the History of Collections, 12 (2000), p.144
• Christopher de Hamel, Horae Beate Mariae Virginis (CD-ROM), reviewed in The Art Newspaper (2000)
• Lilian M.C. Randall, et al., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, III: Belgium, 1250–1350 (Baltimore, 1997), reviewed in Medium Ævum, 69 (2000), pp.343–5
• Michelle P. Brown and Scot McKendrick, eds., Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters: Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse (London, 1998), reviewed in The Library, 21 (1999), pp.153–5