Key for the identification of doctors' gowns
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Atchley, EG Cuthbert, "The Hood as an Ornament of the Minister" (1900) iv Transactions of the St Paul's Ecclesiological Society
Baker, T History of St John's College, Cambridge ed JEB Mayor (Cambridge, 1869) pt II
Baty, T, Academic Colours (Kinkyusha Press, Tokyo, 1934)
Beaumont, Edward, Ancient Memorial Brasses (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1913)
Beck, William, The Draper's Dictionary (The Warehousemen and Drapers Journal, London, 1886)
Buxton, LHD & Gibson, Strickland, Oxford University Ceremonies (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1935)
Cambridge Robes for Doctors and Graduates (1909, addenda 1921, 1923, 1928) (AG Almond Ltd, Cambridge)
Clark, A, Register of the University of Oxford (OHS vol x, 1887) vol ii 1571-1627
Clarke, EC, "English Academic Costume" (1893) i Archaeological Journal 202
"College Caps and Doctors' Hats" (1904) lxi Archaelogical Journal 33-73
Clinch, George, English Costume from Prehistoric Times to the end of the Eighteenth Century (Methuen & Co, London, 1909)
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Daly, Lowrie, The Mediæval University, 1200-1400 (Sheed and Ward, New York, 1961)
Druitt, Herbert, A Manual of Costume as illustrated by Monumental Brasses (Alexander Morny Ltd, London, 1906) ch II
Franklyn, Charles, "Academical Dress- a brief sketch from the twelfth to the twentieth century, with especial reference to doctors" in (1946-7) 9(2) Oxford 78. Reprinted from The Medical World vol lvi no 24, pp 465-8
Academical Dress from the Middle Ages to the Present Day including Lambeth Degrees (privately printed by WE Baxter Ltd, Lewes, 1970)
Reprinted from The Oxford Magazine, 6 and 13 February 1930
Gascoigne, T, "Loci e Libro Veritatum" or Selections from Dr T Gascoigne ed JE Thorold Rogers (Oxford, 1881)
Gibson, Strickland (ed), Statuta Antiqua Universitis Oxoniensis (1931)
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Haycraft, Frank, The Degrees and Hoods of the World's Universities and Colleges eds Frederick Rogers, Charles Franklyn, George Shaw, Hugh Boyd (5th rev ed privately published by WE Baxter Ltd, Lewes, Sussex, 1972, first published 1923)
Herr, Friedrich, The Mediæval World (Mentor, New York, 1963)
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Janet, Mayo, A History of Ecclesiastical Dress (Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc, New York, 1984)
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Lockmiller, David, Scholars on Parade (Macmillan, Toronto, 1969)
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Mullinger, JD, A History of the University of Cambridge (1873-1911) vol ii
New Catholic Encyclopaedia (The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 1967)
Ordinances of the University of Cambridge (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1958) Statute B Chapter VI
Rait, Robert, Life in the Mediæval University (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1918)
Rashdall, Revd W Hastings, The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1895)
Robinson, Rev'd Fr NF, "The pileus quadratus: An enquiry into the relation of the priest's square cap to the common academical catercap and to the judicial corner-cap" (1901) 5 Transactions of the St Paul's Ecclesiological Society 1-16
"The Black Chimere of Anglican Prelates"(1900) 4 Transactions of the St Paul's Ecclesiological Society
Rogers, Frederick, The Story of University Degrees and Academical Dress (The Sutton Press, 1952)
Salter, HE, Registrum cancellarii (OHS, vol xcii, 1932) vol i
Shaw, George, Academical Dress of British and Irish Universities (Phillimore & Co Ltd, London, 1995)
Cambridge University Academical Dress (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, c.1991)
Sinclair, Sir Keith, A History of the University of Auckland 1883-1983 (Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1983)
Smith, Hugh and Sheard, Kevin, Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (AA Balkema, Cape Town, 1970)
Statuta Universitis Oxoniensis (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1960)
Statutes of the Colleges of Oxford, printed for the Royal Commission (1853)
Stokes, Revd HP, Ceremonies of the University of Cambridge (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1927)
Thorne, SE, "The Early History of the Inns of Court with Special Reference to Gray's Inn" (1959) 50 Graya 86
Venables, DR and Clifford, RE, Academic Dress of the University of Oxford (2nd ed Oxford, 1966, first published 1957)
Walter, Christopher, Art and Ritual of the Byzantine Church (Varirum Publications Ltd, London, 1982)
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Wells, Joseph, The Oxford Degree Ceremony (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1906)
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