Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Ger 44
This bibliography was compiled by Johanna Rodda, Markus Stock, Julia Schlozman and William Stoneman.
Please be advised that some links may require Harvard ID and PIN.
HOLLIS Record
W.H. Bond and C.U. Faye. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962. MS cited p. 232.
A very brief description of the manuscript, with a note on provenance. Available online (Link). HOLLIS
Kurt Ruh. ‘Hoheliedauslegung Meliora sunt ubera tua vino’. Die Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon 4 (1983): cols. 88-90. (without this manuscript). Gives a short summary of the text based on one of the other manuscripts in the tradition. HOLLIS
Christoph Gerhardt und Nigel F. Palmer. Die ‘Fünfzehn Zeichen vor dem Jüngsten Gericht’ in deutscher und niederländischer Überlieferung, Catalogue, 2000.
Listed as ‘Hoheliedauslegung Meliora sunt ubera tua vino’ under K 26 (without this manuscript). Online (Link)
Gisela Kornrumpf. Salomonische Schriften, B. ‘Cantica canticorum’. Die Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon vol. 11, ed. Burghart Wachinger et al. (2004): cols. 1364-1367. Meliora sunt cited col. 1365 (Nr. 10) (without this manuscript). HOLLIS
This manuscript is not included in a list of German translations of and commentaries on the Song of Songs.
Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner. Die Bildung der Dominikanerinnen in Süddeutschland vom 13. bis 15. Jahrhundert. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. HOLLIS
Does not mention MS Ger 44, but discusses a reference to another manuscript in the tradition which is listed as a Tischlesung (a refectory reading) in a medieval catalog from the Katharinenkloster, Nürnberg. Available online. Link
Johanna Rodda und Markus Stock. “Wissen söllen alle säligen: A Manuscript of the ‘Hoheliedauslegung’ Meliora sunt ubera tua vino’ at Houghton Library, Harvard University.” Oxford German Studies 39.1 (2010), 1-15. HOLLIS
Gives a description of the physical layout of the manuscript, an overview of the other manuscripts in the tradition, and a summary of the text.
Handschriftencensus: Eine Bestandsaufnahme der handschriftlichen Überlieferung deutschsprachiger Texte des Mittelalters. (website) Accessed 19 November 2009.
Listed in a census of medieval German manuscripts. Found under “Gesamtverzeichnis Handschriften, Cambridge, Mass.” Internet Link
Cross-reference under “Gesamtverzeichnis Autoren/Werke, Hoheliedauslegung Meliora sunt ubera tua vino.” Internet Link