Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
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This bibliography was compiled by Justin Stover and Joshua O’Driscoll.
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HOLLIS

 

A. N. L. Munby, The Formation of the Phillipps Library. Phillipps Studies IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956. MS cited pp. 82, 198.
Listed (not individually) in a group of books bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1862 from the auction Guiglelmo Libri (Phillipps 16389). 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 p. 283.
Very brief mention. HOLLIS

 

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries.  London: Warburg Institute and Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997.  MS cited in vol. 5, p. 238.
Very brief description. HOLLIS

 

Berthold L. Ullman and Philip A. Stadter. The public library of Renaissance Florence. Niccolò Niccoli, Cosimo de’ Medici and the library of San Marco. Padova: Antenore, 1972. MS cited p. 238.
Listed in a catalogue of the library of San Marco (original shelf-mark: S. M. 197). Available online via ACLS Humanities E-Book (link). HOLLIS

 

James Hankins. Italian Humanists in Ten Manuscripts from the Houghton Library. Cambridge, Mass: Houghton Library, 1989. MS cited p. 10-11, no. 8.
Discussion of the historical context and provenance of the MS. HOLLIS.

 

J.E. Walsh.  A Catalogue of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in the HarvardUniversity Library. Binghamton, NY and Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1991-1997. MS cited vol. 3, pp. 32-33, no. 2843.
Lengthy description of whole volume, as well as incipit and date of the MS letter of Ficino. HOLLIS