Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Gr 17
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
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 pp. 233-4.
Brief description of manuscript’s contents, physical properties, and provenance. HOLLIS
Nigel Wilson, “The Manuscripts of Theophrastus,” Scriptorium 16 (1962): pp. 96-99. MS cited p. 99. HOLLIS
The Houghton Library, 1942–1967: A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library [distributed by Harvard University Press], 1967. MS reproduced on p. 21.
HOLLIS
Reproduction without call number.
Dieter Harlfinger and Diether Reinsch, “Die Aristotelica des Parisinus Gr. 1741: zur Überlieferung von Poetik, Rhetorik, Physiognomonik, De signis, De ventorum situ,” Philologus 114 (1970), pp. 28-50. MS cited pp. 45-48, with a stemma on p. 48.
Description of physical properties and related manuscripts. HOLLIS
Dieter Harlfinger, review of Album de paléographie grecque, by M. Wittek, in Gymnasium 77 (1970): pp. 429-31. HOLLIS
Simone Follet, “Contributions a l'histoire de deux manuscrits de Philostrate,” Revue d'histoire des texts 5 (1975), pp. 1-7. MS cited p. 5.
Brief description of provenance. HOLLIS
Paul Moraux, Aristoteles Graecus: d. griech. Ms. d. Aristoteles, I. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1976. MS cited pp. 110-117.
Detailed description of the contents and provenance of each section of the manuscript. HOLLIS
Benedict Einarson, “The Manuscripts of Theophrastus’ Historia Plantarum,” Classical Philology 71.1 (1976), pp. 67-76.
Manuscript cited throughout as “H.” Placed in a stemma, p. 67. HOLLIS
Martin Sicherl, Handschriftliche Vorlagen der Editio princeps des Aristoteles: [Franz Dirlmeier zum 70. Geburtstag in Dankbarkeit u. Verehrung]. Mainz: Akademie der Wiss. u. d. Literatur, 1976. Reproduced in Martin Sicherl, Griechische Erstausgaben des Aldus Manutius: Druckvorlagen, Stellenwert, kultureller Hintergrund. Paderborn: F. Schöningh, 1997, pp. 31-113.
Description of contents, script, and comparison to related manuscripts. Fig. 3 reproduces f. 111v. HOLLIS
Martin Sicherl, Johannes Cuno: e. Wegbereiter d. Griech. in Deutschland: e. biograph.-kodikolog. Studie. Heidelberg: Winter, 1978. MS cited pp. 183-188.
Description of physical properties in the context of a discussion of the humanist Johannes Cuno (previous owner). HOLLIS
Nigel Wilson, “The Book Trade in Venice Ca. 1400-1515.” In Venezia, Centro Di Mediazione Tra Oriente E Occidente, Secoli XV-XVI: Aspetti E Problemi, II, pp. 381-397. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1977. MS cited pp. 392-393.
Brief description of manuscript’s contents within a discussion of the printing of Greek texts in Italy. HOLLIS
Paul Canart, “Démétrius Damilas, alias le ‘Librarius Florentinus,’” Rivista di studi bizantini e neoellenici 14-16 (1977-1979), pp. 281-347.
Placed in a stemma of the Physiognomonica, p. 294. Discussed in footnote 4, p. 297. HOLLIS
Griechische Handschriften und Aldinen. Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel: 16. Mai-29. Juni 1978. MS cited pp. 125-129, with plate 48b reproducing f. 111v.
Brief mention. HOLLIS
Roger E. Stoddard, Marks in Books, Illustrated and Explained. Cambridge, Mass: Houghton Library, 1985, MS included as pl. 2. HOLLIS
Reproduction of ff. 56v-57 demonstrating the manuscripts use as “part of the copy text for Aldus’s edition of Aristotle (1495-98), cast off and bearing the inky finger prints of the printers.”
Philippe Hoffmann, “Un mystérieux collaborateur d’Alde Manuce: l’Anonymus Harvardianus,” Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen âge, temps modernes 97.1 (1985), pp. 45-143. MS cited throughout, with particular detail pp. 76-79.
Description of physical properties and provenance. Discussion of related manuscripts. HOLLIS
Philippe Hoffmann, “Autrees données relatives à un mystérieux collaborateur d’Alde Manuce: l’Anonymus Harvardianus,” Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen âge, temps modernes 98.2 (1986), pp. 673-708.
A continuation of Hoffman 1985. Further paleographic and physical detail regarding related manuscripts. HOLLIS
R. J. Tarrant, “An Aristotelian Excursion.” In The Marks in the Fields: Essays on the Uses of Manuscripts, ed. Rodney G. Dennis and Elizabeth A. Falsey, pp. 20-28. Cambridge, Mass: Houghton Library, 1992.
Discussion of manuscript as well as MS Lat 39 and MS Typ 233 with regards to the history of Aristotle’s works in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Brief discussion of contents and provenance. HOLLIS
Annaclara Cataldi Palau, Gian Francesco d’Asola e la tipografia aldina. Genoa, 1998. MS cited pp. 423 and 431f. HOLLIS
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 54.2 (2010): 207-274. HOLLIS (Link)
MS cited pp. 211-222 and Figs. 1 & 2 (reproducing ff. 5 & 55 [details]).
Complete scholarly description.
