| Preface | 7 |
| Editors' Note | 11 |
| 1 | Latin Palaeography since Traube. Inaugural Address in the Chair of Palaeography, University of London | 17 |
| 2 | Names of Scripts - a Plea to all Medievalists | 39 |
| 3 | Aspects of Palaeography | 47 |
| I | What is Palaeography? | 47 |
| II | Palaeography: an Overview | 51 |
| III | Palaeography: Latin and Western European Vernacular | 60 |
| IV | Punctuation | 79 |
| 4 | Northumbria and the Book of Kells | 97 |
| 5 | The Distribution and Significance of Membrane prepared in the Insular Manner | 125 |
| 6 | An Historical Introduction to the Use of Classical Latin Authors in the British Isles from the Fifth to the Eleventh Century | 141 |
| 7 | Tradition, Imitation and Invention in Insular Handwriting of the Seventh and Eighth Centuries | 179 |
| 8 | The Irish Element in the Insular System of Scripts to c. AD 850 | 201 |
| 9 | The Oldest Irish Manuscripts and their Late Antique Background | 221 |
| 10 | The St. Ninian's Isle Silver Hoard: The Inscriptions | 245 |
| 11 | The Detection of Faked Literary Manuscripts | 253 |
| I | Introduction | 253 |
| II | Points for Examination | 255 |
| Notes to the Text | 263 |
| Editors' Supplementary Bibliography | 291 |
| Bibliography of the Writings of T. J. Brown | 293 |
| Illustrations | 297 |
| Glossary | 345 |
| CLA Concordance of Manuscripts | 347 |
| Index of Manuscripts | 353 |
| General Index | 359 |