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.

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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