In addition to Gary's bibliography (thank you, Gary, especially for the
reference to Barasch's book about Giotto, which was news for me!) let me
paste some items from my DBF, leaving aside everything devoted specifically
to the signs of finger count and to their use as a telegraphic sign language:

SITTL Carl
   Die Geba"rden der Griechen und Ro"mer. Leipzig 1890, Repr.
   Hildesheim et al.: Olms, 1970, vi+386 pp.
GRAJEW Felix
   Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Geba"rden in der
   griechischen Epik. Diss. Freiburg i.Br., 1930, 54 pp.
HEUSER Mary Laura
   Gestures and their meaning in early Christian art. Diss.
   Radcliffe College, 1954? 1986?, xvi+242 pp., 87 pp. ill.
CASAGRANDE Gino
   La comunicazione non verbale nella Divina Commedia. In:
   L'Alighieri 14,1 (1973), p.3-22
ROEDER Anke
   Die Geba"rde im Drama des Mittelalters: Osterfeiern, Oster-
   spiele. Mu"nchen: Beck, 1974 (= MTU 49), viii+253 pp.
   [zuvor: Die Geba"rde im lateinischen und volkssprachlichen
   Osterspiel des Mittelalters, Diss. Mu"nchen 1972]
BARASCH Moshe
   Gestures of despair in medieval and early Renaissance art.
   New York: New York UP, 1976, x+162 pp.
COCCHIARA Giuseppe
   Il linguaggio del gesto. Nota introduttiva di Silvana
   Miceli, Palermo: Sellerio, 1977 (= Prisma, 9)
RODRIGUEZ Victor Eloy
   Gestures and physical phrases in medieval Castilian epic
   poetry. Diss. Los Angeles, University of Southern Califor-
   nia, 1977, ii+239 pp.
ROMEO Luigi
   For a Medieval History of Gesture Communication. In: Sign
   Language Studies 21 (1978), p.353-380
SUNTRUP Rudolf
   Die Bedeutung der liturgischen Geba"rden und Bewegungen in
   lateinischen und deutschen Auslegungen des 9. bis 13. Jahr-
   hunderts. Mu"nchen: Fink, 1978 (= Mu"nstersche Mittelalter-
   Schriften, 37), 507 pp.
BENSON Robert G.
   Medieval body language: a study in the use of gesture in
   Chaucer's poetry. Kopenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1980,
   170 pp.
MCCOY L. Frank
   Gestures and their interpretation in the Genesis cycle of
   the Oxford Moralized Bible and selected thirteenth century
   manuscripts. Diss. University of North Carolina at Chapel
   Hill, 1980, iii+378 pp., 24 pp. ill.
SCHMITT Jean Claude
   "Gestus" - "Gesticulatio": Contribution a\ l'e/tude du voca-
   bulaire latin me/die/vale des gestes. In: *La lexicographie
   du latin me/die/val et ses rapports avec les recherches actu-
   elles sur la civilisation du moyen a^ge, Paris 18-21 octobre
   1978, ed. Yves Lefe\vre, Paris: CNRS, 1981 (= Colloques in-
   ternationaux du CNRS, 589), p.377-390
MEO ZILIO & MEJI/A
   Meo Zilio, Giovanni & Meji/a, Silvia:
   Diccionario de gestos: Espan~a e Hispanoame/rica. Bogota/:
   Inst. Caro y Cuervo, 1980-1983, 2 vol.
DAVIDSON Clifford
   The Visual Arts and Drama, with Special Emphasis on the
   Lazarus Plays. In: *Le the/atre au moyen a^ge [Actes du 2e
   colloque de la Socie/te/ internationale pour l'e/tude du
   the/atre me/die/val, Alenc,on, 11-14 juillet 1977], ed. Gari R.
   Muller & Jean Charles Payen, Que/bec: Aurore-Univers,
   1981, p.45-59
COLAS Louise
   Chre/tien de Troyes: Le corps et le geste. In: Europe 642
   (octobre 1982), p.105-113
GARNIER F.
   Le language de l'image au Moyen Age, vol. I: Signification
   et symbolique; vol. II: Grammaire des gestes. Paris: Le 
   Le le/opard d'or, 1982 & 1988
DAVIDSON Clifford
   Gesture in Medieval Drama with Special Reference to the
   Doomsday Plays in the Middle English Cycles. In: EDAM
   Newsletter 6,1 (1983), p.8-17
LAMEDICA Nico
   Oratori, filosofi, maestri di sordomuti. Per una storia
   degli studi sul gesto fra età antica e moderna, Cosenza:
   Pellegrini, 1984 (= Costellazioni, 2), 188 pp.
ME/NARD Philippe
   Les gestes et les expressions corporelles dans la Chanson
   de Roland: les attitudes de commandement et de de/fi. In:
   *Guillaume d'Orange and the Chanson de geste [Essays presen-
   ted to Duncan McMillan in celebration of his seventieth
   birthday...], ed. Wolfgang Van Emden & Philipp E. Bennet &
   Alexander Kerr, Reading: Soc. Rencesvals, 1984, p.85-92
SCHMITT Jean Claude
   Gestures. Chur et al.: Harwood Acad. Publ., 1984 (= History
   and Anthropology, 1.1), ii+237 pp.
GINSBERG Warren
   'E chinando la mano a al sua faccia': A Note on Dante,
   Brunetto Latini, and Their Text. In: Stanford Italian Review
   5,1 (1985), p.19-22
KRAEMER Christiane K.
   Die Geba"rden in der Mittelhochdeutschen Heldenepik. Cf.
   Dissertations Abstracts International 45,8 (Febr. 1985),
   2520A
MACCORNACK Katharine
   The Bayeux Tapestry: Does It Follow the French Oral Epic?
   In: Constructions [Stanford, Calif.] 1985, p.95-103
ROTHSCHILD Judith Rice
   Manipulative Gestures and Behaviors in the Lais of Marie de
   France. In: *The Spirit of the Court. Selected Proceedings
   of the Fourth Congress of the International Courtly Litera-
   ture Society (Toronto 1983, ed. Glyn S. Burgess et al.,
   Dover (N.H.): Brewer, 1985, p.283-288
SCHMITT Jean Claude
   Entre le texte et l'image: les gestes de la prie\re de
   Saint Dominique. In: *Persons in Groups: Social Behavior as
   Identity Formation in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
   [Papers of the 16th Annual Conference of the Center for
   Medieval & Early Renaissance Studies...], ed. Richard C.
   Trexler, Binghamtom (N.Y.): medieval & renaissance texts &
   studies, 1985 (= MRTS 36), p.195-220
VATTERONI Sergio
   Il gesto del dolore e il gesto dell'offesa nella Chanson de
   Roland. In: Studi Mediolatini e Volgari 31 (1985),
   p.193-203
WARREN Glenda
   True and False Gestures in Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose.
   In: Iris [Graduate Journal of French Critical Studies,
   Madison (Wi.)] 2,1 (1986), p.29-37
ZUMTHOR Paul
   Jongleurs et diseurs. Interpre/tation et cre/ation poe/tique
   au moyen a^ge. In: Medioevo Romanzo 11,1 (1986), p.3-26
*BEWEGUNGEN
   Bewegungen in Mittelalter und Renaissance: Ka"mpfe, Spiele,
   Ta"nze, Zeremoniell und Umgangsformen [ed. August Nitschke],
   Du"sseldorf: Schwann, 1987 (= Historisches Seminar, 2), 176
   pp.
BIEDERMANN Gottfried
   Vom Wandel antiker Gesten im Mittelalter. In: Pantheon 45
   (1987), p.21-27
WEST-BURDETTE Beverly
   Gesture, Concrete Imagery and Spatial Configuration in the
   'Cantar de mio Cid'. In: La Coronica 16,1 (1987), p.55-66
ESTRIN Barbara L.
   The Lady's Gestures and John Donne's Gestes. In: Forum for
   Modern Language Studies 24,3 (1988), p.218-233
MAIER-EICHHORN Ursula
   Die Gestikulation in Quintilians Rhetorik. Frankfurt a.M.
   et al.: Lang, 1989 (= Europa"ische Hoschschulschriften,
   15, 41), 162 pp. [Diss. Mu"nchen, 1986]
LO"FFLER Walter
   Haltung und Bewegung als Ausdruckssprache bei Michelangelo.
   Das Vokabular und seine Verwendung, Diss. Tu"bingen, 1987,
   v+251 pp.
BARTOSZ Antoni
   Fonction du geste dans un texte romanesque médiéval:
   Remarques sur la gestualité dans la première partie d'Erec.
   In: Romania 111,3-4 (1990), p.346-360
*CORONATIONS
   *Coronations: medieval and early modern monarchic ritual
   [Conf. Toronto, Febr. 1985] Berkeley: Univ. of California
   Press, 1990, viii+257 pp.
   [u.a. mit einem Beitrag von E. Hoffmann, Gesture in the
   coronation ceremonies of medieval Poland]
SCHMITT Jean Claude
   La raison des gestes dans l'Occident me/die/val. Paris:
   Gallimard, 1990 (= Bibliothe\que des histoires), 432 pp.
   dt. Die Logig der Gesten im europa"ischen Mittelalter,
   Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1992, 419 pp.
*A CULTURAL HISTORY
   A Cultural history of gesture: from antiquity to the
   present day. Ed. by Jan Bremmer, Cambridge et al.: Polity
   Press, 1991, xiv+268 pp.
GRIFFIN Jocelyn C.
   Pointing gestures in medieval miniatures: a study based on
   illustrated manuscripts of the Terence comedies. Diss. New
   York University, 1991, viii+219+xxix pp.
SCHUBERT Martin J.
   Zur Theorie des Gebarens im Mittelalter. Analyse von nicht-
   sprachlicher A"usserung in mittelhochdeutscher Epik: Rolands-
   lied, Eneasroman, Tristan. Ko"ln: Bo"hlau, 1991 (= Ko"lner
   Germanistische Studien, 31), ix+247 pp.
GUNDERSHEIMER Werner
   Clarity and Ambiguity in Renaissance Gesture: The Case of
   Borso d'Este. In: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance
   Studies 23,1 (1993), p.1-17
SCHLEIF Corine
   Hands that appoint, anoint and ally: late medieval donor
   strategies for appropriating approbation through painting.
   In: Art History 16 (1993), p.1-32
LEYSER Karl
   Communications and power in medieval Europe: the Carolingian
   and Ottonian centuries. London/Rio Grande (Ohio): Hambledon
   Press, 1994, xvii+244 pp.
   [mit einem Kapitel Ritual, ceremony and gesture: Ottonian Ger-
   many]
FONTAINE Guylaine
   Du 'conseil des muetz' au 'taire parler': le langage du
   geste chez Rabelais et Montaigne. In: Renaissance and
   Reformation 19,1 (1995), p.21-38
LYNCH Andrew
   Gesture and Gender in Malory's La Morte d'Arthur. In:
   *Arthurian Romance and Gender - Masculin / Fe/minin dans le
   roman arthurien - Geschlechterrollen im mittelalterlichen
   Artusroman, ed. Friedrich Wolfzettel, Amsterdam: Rodopi,
   1995 (= Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und
   Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 10), p.285-295
TORRES Milagros
   Erotismo mesonil en El meso/n de la Corte y La noche toleda-
   na de Lope de Vega: De la palabra al gesto. In: *Erotismo
   en las letras hispa/nicas: Aspectos, modos y fronteras, ed.
   Lopez Baralt, Luce & Marquez Villanueva, Francisco, Mexico
   City: Colegio de Me/xico, Centro de Estudios Lingu"i/sticos y
   Literarios, 1995, p.439-459

Griffin 1991 could also be of tangential interest for those of us who were
recently discussing on MedTextL the 'maniculae' (little hands) on the
margins of medieval manuscripts.

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