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Professor Nigel J. Morgan    

HEAD OF RESEARCH PARKER LIBRARY MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS PROJECT CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
Throughout Professor Morgan's career his publications have concentrated on English and French medieval illuminated, devotional and liturgical manuscripts. Professor Morgan is currently Research Manager of a manuscripts project at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, is to revise the catalogue, provide full bibliographic documentation, and to completely digitise the medieval manuscripts of the College Library, founded by the sixteenth-century Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker. This involves study of the complete historical range of manuscript production from the sixth to the sixteenth century.

Work in Progress

1. English Benedictine Calendars after 1100. The completion of the work for the Henry Bradshaw Society by Francis Wormald who completed two volumes; two are to come.
2. English Benedictine Litanies after 1100 for the Henry Bradshaw Society.
3. Catalogue of the Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum and College Libraries of Cambridge. Collaborative project with Drs. Paul Binski, Martina Meuwese, Elizabeth New, Stella Panayatova, Hanna Vorholt and Andrea Wurm.
4. Catalogue of the Manuscripts in Corpus Christi College Library, Cambridge. Collaborative project with Drs. Neil Coates, Christine Feld and Rebecca Rushforth.
5. 'Psalter Illustration in the Thirteenth Century; Research 1939-2005': introductory essay (25,000 words) to the reprint edition of G. Haseloff, Die Psalterillustration im 13 Jahrhundert. Studien zur Buchmalerei in England, Frankreich und den Niederländen, Kiel, 1938.

Select Publications

Books

  • ed. P. Lasko and N.J. Morgan, Medieval Art in East Anglia 1300-1520, Exhibition Catalogue, Castle Museum, Norwich, 1973.
  • R.Marks and N.Morgan,The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting 1200-1500, New York, 1981 (repr. 1996).
  • N.J. Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts 1190-1250, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, IV Part 1, London, 1982.
  • N.J. Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts 1250-1285, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, IV Part 2, London, 1988.
  • N.J. Morgan, The Lambeth Apocalypse, Commentary for the Facsimile Edition, London, 1990 (chapter on Codicology/Palaeography by M. Brown).
  • N.J. Morgan and S. Lewis, The Gulbenkian Apocalypse, Commentary for the Facsimile Edition, Barcelona, 2002, chapters by N. Morgan on Historical Context; Apocalypse Illustrations; Style, Dating and Provenance; Description of Illustrations with edition and translation of the text. Chapter on Codicology and Palaeography by M. Brown and A. Nascimento. Chapter on the Commentary Illustrations and their Description by S.Lewis.
  • ed. N.J. Morgan, Prophecy, Apocalypse and the Day of Doom, Proceedings of the 2000 Harlaxton Symposium, Harlaxton Medieval Studies XII, Donington, 2004.
  • D. McKitterick, N. Morgan, I. Short and T. Webber, The Trinity Apocalypse (Trinity College, Cambridge MS R.16.2), Commentary volume for the Facsimile Edition, Luzern, 2004; chapters by N. Morgan on Illustrated Apocalypses of mid-thirteenth century England - Historical Context, Patronage and Readership; Style, Dating and Place of Production; Iconography; Description of the Illustrations (also published in a version by British Library Publications, London/Toronto, 2005).
  • R. Alcoy, N. Morgan and H. Reinhardt, The Anglo-Catalan Psalter, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France lat. 8846, Commentary for the Facsimile Ed., Barcelona, 2006.
  • N.J. Morgan, The Douce Apocalypse, Oxford, 2006.
  • The History of the Book in Britain, vol. 2, 1100-1400, co-editor with Professor Rodney Thomson of the University of Tasmania; I have contributed two chapters on ‘Liturgical Books and Private Prayer Books’ and 'Techniques of Illumination' (in the press).

Recent Publications and in Press

Iconography

  • 'Texts, Contexts and Images of the Orders of the Angels in Late Medieval England', Glas, Malerei, Forschung. Internationale Studien zu Ehren von Rüdiger Becksmann, Berlin, 2004, 211-20.
  • ‘Pictured Sermons in Thirteenth Century England’, Essays in Honour of Jonathan Alexander, ed. G. Guest, E. Inglis, London/New York, 2006, 323-40.

Illuminated Manuscripts

  • ‘Some French Interpretations of English Illustrated Apocalypses c. 1290 -1330’, in England and the Continent in the Middle Ages: Studies in Memory of Andrew Martindale, Proceedings of the 1996 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. J. Mitchell, Harlaxton Medieval Studies,VIII, Stamford, 2000, 137-56.
  • ‘A Model Sheet of Apocalypse Drawings, the Fifteenth Century Netherlandish and German Manuscript Apocalypses, and the Early Block Books’ in New Offerings, Ancient Treasures: Studies in Medieval Art for George Henderson, ed. P. Binski and W. Noel, Stroud, 2001, 389-414.
  • ‘Patrons and Devotional Images in English Art of the International Gothic c. 1350-1450’, Reading Texts and Images. Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage in Honour of Margaret Manion, ed. B. Muir, Exeter, 2002, 93-121.
  • ‘The Decorative Ornament of the Text and Page in Thirteenth Century England: Initials, Border Extensions and Line Fillers’, English Manuscript Studies, 10, 2002, 1-33.
  • ‘An SS Collar in a Devotional Context’, in The Lancastrian Court, Proceedings of the 2001Harlaxton Symposium, ed. J. Stratford, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, XIII, Donington, 2003, 147-62.
  • 'Gendered Devotions and Social Rituals: The Aspremont Psalter - 'Hours' and the Image of the Patron in Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth-Century France', Melbourne Art Journal, 6, 2003, 5-24.
  • 'The Torments of the Damned in Hell in Texts and Images in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries', Prophecy, Apocalypse and the Day of Doom, Proceedings of the 2000 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. N.J. Morgan, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, XII, Donington, 2004, 250-60.
  • ‘Patrons and their Devotions in the Initials of Thirteenth Century English Psalters’, The Illuminated Psalter, Internationales Kolloquium zur Buchmalerei, 1999, ed. F.O. Büttner, Turnhout, 2005, 309-22.
  • The Cambridge Illuminations - Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections, ed. P. Binski and S. Panayotova (30 catalogue entries and three introductory essays by Morgan)
  • ‘The Bohun Apocalypse’, Studies in Honour of Lucy Freeman Sandler, ed. K. Smith, NewYork, 2007 (in the press).
  • 'A French Franciscan Breviary in Lisbon and the Breviaries of Jean Pucelle and his Followers', in Études pour François Avril, ed. E. König and M. Hoffmann, Turnhout, 2007 (in the press).

Liturgy, Devotion and Religious Practice in Late Medieval England

  • ‘Texts and Images of Marian Devotion in English Twelfth Century Monasticism’, in Monasticism and Society, Proceedings of the 1994 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. B. Thompson, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, VI, Stamford, 1999, pp.117-136.
  • ‘Some missing leaves from the Buckland Missal’, The Bodleian Library Record, 17, 2001, 269-75.
  • 'The Introduction of the Sarum Calendar into the Dioceses of England in the Thirteenth Century', in Thirteenth Century England VIII, Proceedings of the Durham Conference 1999, ed. M. Prestwich, R. Britnell and R. Frame, Woodbridge, 2001, 179-206.