Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Gr 1
This bibliography was compiled by Sarah Burke, William Stoneman and Nadia Kavrus-Hoffman.
Please be advised that some links may require Harvard ID and PIN.
HOLLIS
Edgar J. Goodspeed, “The Harvard Gospels,” American Journal of Theology 10.4 (1906), pp. 687-700.
Description of physical properties and provenance. Includes a collation of the text. HOLLIS
Caspar René Gregory, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1908. MS cited p. 71 and p. 261 as no. 666.
Available online (Link). HOLLIS
Charles Brewster Randolph, “The Sign of Interrogation in Greek Minuscule Manuscripts,” Classical Philology 5.3 (1910), 309-319.
One of many manuscripts examined. Available online (Link). HOLLIS
Edgar J. Goodspeed, Greek Gospel Texts in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1902-1918. MS cited pp. 171-186.
According to Clark, Goodspeed provides “description, collation, facsimile of 6r with headpiece and Mt 1:1-3a.” HOLLIS
Henry Preserved Smith, “Biblical Manuscripts in America,” Journal of Biblical Literature 44 (1925), pp. 188-189. MS cited p. 188.
Brief mention. Available online (Link). HOLLIS
Emilie Boer, Description of Greek MSS (MS Gr 1-14F, MS Gr 100, MS Riant 53) in the Possession of Harvard University Library. 1928.
Unpublished. Brief physical description (in Latin). HOLLIS
Seymour de Ricci, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, I. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-1940. (Reprint 1961). MS cited p. 971.
Brief description. HOLLIS
Kenneth Willis Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 1937. MS cited pp. 107-109.
Full description of all aspects of manuscript, including text, binding, decoration, script and provenance. Includes an index of contents and further bibliography. HOLLIS
William H.P. Hatch, Facsimiles and Descriptions of Minuscule Manuscripts of the New Testament (Cambridge, Mass., 1951), 176 and pl. 52 (attributes MS to s.xii).
Kurt Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments. Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung, Bd. 1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1963. MS cited p. 96, no. 666. HOLLIS
Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections; An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann. Ed. Gary Vikan. Art Museum, Princeton University: Princeton University Press, 1973. MS cited pp. 188-189, no. 53.
Description of bindings, decoration, condition and provenance. Discussion of related Evangelist portraits. Fig. 98 reproduces fol. 94v (Mark). HOLLIS
Hugo Buchthal and Hans Belting, Patronage in Thirteenth-Century Constantinople: An Atelier of Late Byzantine Book Illumination and Calligraphy (Washington DC, 1978), 95 and pl. 89.
Boris L. Fonkič, “Scriptoria bizantini: Risultati e prospettive della ricerca,” Rivista di studi bizantini e neoellenici 17-19 (1980-82): 73-118 at 113.
Robert S. Nelson and John Lowden, “The Palaeologina Group: Additional Manuscripts and New Questions,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 45 (1991): 59-68 at 60 n. 12.
Irmgard Hutter, “Schreiber und Maler der Palaiologenzeit in Konstantinopel,” in Praktika tou 6’ Diethnous Symposiou Ellenikes Palaiographias (Drama, 21-27 Septembriou 2003), ed. Basiles Atsalos and Nike Tsirone, 3 vols. (Athens, 2008), 1:159-90 at 164 n. 23.
Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffman, “Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Collections of the United States of America: Part V.1: Harvard University, The Houghton Library,” Manuscripta 54.1 (2010): 64-147. HOLLIS (Link)
MS cited pp. 69-81 and Fig. 1 (reproducing f. 99 [detail]).
Complete scholarly description.
