William Morris Archive
Poetry
Prose
Nonfiction
Translations
Drama
Book Arts
Calligraphy
INTRODUCTION
CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPTS
Aeneid
, calligraphic trial, Society of Antiquaries, Book I, lines 34-89, f. 1 and verso
Lancelot of the Lake, MS 905.4, vol. 1, ff. 1-76
Lancelot of the Lake, MS 905.3, vol. 2 ff. 1-307
The Tale of Haldor, the Son of Snorri the Priest,"unfinished calligraphic manuscript,
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection
Egil's Saga, Society of Antiquaries Soc. of A. MS. 907, 1873-74
The Story of Halfdan the Black, Morgan Library MA 3471
The Story of King Harald, Morgan Library MA 3471
The Tale of Thorstein and the Story of Gunnlaug fragment, Bodleian Library misc. e. 233/1
The Story of Frithiof, fragment, Morgan Library MA 1494
Odes of Horace, Bodleian Library, Oxford
Odes of Horace, Cheltenham Library, Song 12
Image from the Rubaiyat (1872)
Rubaiyat, Bodleian Library, Oxford Don f. 3
Rubaiyat, Cheltenham Library
The Story of the Men of Weaponfirth, Cheltenham Library
Virgil, 2 ff. Latin text
Ynglings Saga, variants, Society of Antiquaries Soc. of A. MS. 906, with marginal drawings by Philip Webb and C. F. Murray
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS
A Book of Verse
Catalogue of Morris's Books
Illustrations for the
Aeneid
by Edward Burne-Jones, Morgan Library
Braesel, Michaela."The Influence of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts on the Pre-Raphaelites and the Early Poetry of William Morris."
JWMS
15.4 (Summer 2004): 41-54.
Braesel, Michaela.
"William Morris and 'Authenticity.'"
Reading Matters
Vol. 15, Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres. [Discusses his early calligraphic designs, including "The Story of the Iron Man" from the Grimm Brothers]
Goodwin,
K. L.
Preliminary
Handlist of Manuscripts and Documents of William Morris.
Provides locations for Morris manuscripts
Whitla, William. "'Sympathetic Translation' and the 'Scribe's Capacity': Morris's Calligraphy and the Icelandic Sagas."
Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies
10 (Fall 2001): 27-108. See Appendix A: "William Morris's Calligraphic Manuscripts," 80-95 for a list of locations and features of these manuscripts.