Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
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Sammlung und Verzeichniss handschriftlicher Bücher aus dem VIII. ... XIV. etc. Jahrhundert, ... nebst einer Sammlung von alten Holzschnitten und kleinen Gemälden ... die ... aus alten Pergament-Handschriften ausgeschnitten sind, welche besitzt Leander van Ess. Darmstadt 1823. MS cited no. 208.
HOLLIS

The Phillips Manuscripts. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca D. Thomae Phillipps 1837-1871. Reprint with introduction by A. N. L. Munby. London: Holland Press, 1968. MS cited p. 7, no. 592.
Very brief citation. HOLLIS

Bibliotheca Phillippica: catalogue of a further portion of the classical, historical, topographical, genealogical and other manuscripts & autograph letters of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps ... including upwards of two hundred volumes on vellum dating from the tenth century relating to England, Germany, Italy, &c. ... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinsons & Hodge ... on Monday, the 6th of June, 1910, and three following days.). London: Dryden, 1910. MS described p. 84, no. 470.
Brief description with subscription (inside cover) and colophon. HOLLIS

Ellis Catalogue 138 (1911). MS described p. 22, no. 81.
Brief description, with colophon.

Seymour de Ricci, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-1940. (Reprint 1961). MS cited vol. 1, p. 976.
Brief description with information on the binding, provenance and physical properties of MS. HOLLIS

A. N. L. Munby. The Formation of the Phillipps Library. Phillipps Studies 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956. MS cited pp. 33; 146.
Very brief mention of provenance. HOLLIS

Richard Bruce Marks. The Medieval Manuscript Library of the Charterhouse of St. Barbara in Cologne. Analecta Cartusiana 21. Salzburg: Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, 1974. MS cited vol. 1, pp. 10, n. 43; 225-26; 410; 414; 450.
Description with information on all aspects of MS (pp. 225-226), with additional notes on the dating (p. 10, n. 43), and its medieval shelfmark, 0 107 or 0 171 (pp. 410; 440). HOLLIS

Colophons de Manuscrits Occidentaux des Origines au XVIe Siècle.  Fribourg: Éditions Universitaire Fribourg Suisse, 1979. MS cited vol. 3, no. 9462.
Cited for its scribe.  HOLLIS

Sigrid Krämer. Review of Marks 1974. Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchandel—Frankfurter Ausgabe nr. 71 (1979), 158–168. MS cited p. 168.
Cited in a list St. Barbara Charterhouse MSS, arguing for its identification as St Barbara no. 0 107. HOLLIS

Sigrid Krämer.  Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, 3 vols. München: C. H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1989-1990. MS cited vol. 2, p. 426
Cited in a list St. Barbara Charterhouse MSS. HOLLIS

Laura Light, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Houghton Library of Harvard University. Volume 1: MSS Lat 3-179. Binghamton: State University of New York at Binghamton, 1995. MS described pp. 11-14, pl. 7, 63.
Full description of all aspects of MS, including text (p. 11), physical properties of the MS (pp. 11-12), script and decoration (p. 12), historical context (pp. 12-13) and provenance (pp. 13-14). Plate 7 reproduces f. 1; plate 63 reproduces inside front cover. HOLLIS

Sigrid Krämer. Scriptores codicum medii aevi: Datenbank von Schreiben und Besitzern mittelalterlicher Handschriften [electronic resource], (Augsburg: Dr. Erwin Rauner Verlag, 2001-2007). Accessed 2 July 2007.
Cited for its scribe. Available online (Link). HOLLIS

 

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