Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Ital 54

This bibliography was compiled by Sarah Burke.
Please be advised that some links may require Harvard ID and PIN.
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All of the following sources were written before MS Ital 55 was removed from MS Ital 54.

Paul Colomb de Batines, Giovanni Costantini, Zanobi Bicchierai, and Gudio Biagi, Bibliografia dantesca; ossia, Catalogo delle edizioni, traduzioni, codici manoscritti e comenti della Divina commedia e delle opere minori di Dante, seguito dalla serie de' biografia di lui, II. Prato: Aldina, 1845-1846.  MS cited pp. 103-104, n. 189.
Description of the manuscript with notes on decoration, hands, text, and provenance. Written while manuscript was in the collection of S. Kirkup. Full text available online (Link). HOLLIS

William Coolidge Lane, The Dante Collections in the Harvard College and Boston Public Libraries. Cambridge, Mass.: Issued by the Library of Harvard University, 1890.  MS cited p. 3, n. 2.
Brief description of the manuscript’s physical properties and provenance. Full text available online (Link). 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. 997 as Norton 3.
Brief physical description. 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. 235.
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Brief description of manuscript’s contents, physical properties, and provenance. 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. 15.
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Reproduction without call number.

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