I've been looking at the Ductus Paleography software.
It covers one or two scripts (National Hands II: Merovingian B Minuscule and Corbie AB Minuscule, anyone?) in each Session in the course, with Gothic scripts covered in two Sessions (yay, go Gothic script!)
Each session is a screen or two of summary. Click on the manuscript pages to be transcribed to get paleographical summaries of them, and be able to magnify them.
And a wacking great list of books to be referenced as part of each session.
I've built the required book list for the two Gothic Scripts Sessions - it's now my "Paleography Book Wish List". It's fun window shopping books!
Since I'm intending (or already am?) making a serious study of the Gothic scripts this doesn't bother me. I'll get the books eventually. And I imagine that most of the books would cover the rest of the course as well. Although a small part of me is going "Yowsers!".
Professor Muir does mention in the introduction that Greetham's Textual Scholarship: An Introduction and Bischoff's Latin Palaeography, are the bare minimum, so I could get away with just those.
He also mentions
" The program has an embryonic electronic library that when fully developed will offer synopses of a corpus of essential articles for users working either independently or in an environment where a wide range of paleographical reference material is not readily available......updates regularly available".
I'm so looking forward to this!
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