Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Lat 15
This bibliography was compiled by Laura Light, Justin Stover and William Stoneman.
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HOLLIS Record (Link)
Catalogue of a collection of books formed by William G. Medlicott, of Longmeadow, Mass., selected with reference to studying or illustrating Anglo-Saxon language and literature, English ballads and ballad literature, early English and early French literature, English Bibles, catechisms, and liturgies, bibliography, palaeography, and Shakesperiana, with other collateral subjects, including many valuable, old, rare and curious books and manuscripts. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1878. MS cited p. 283, no. 2730.
Brief description with information on the contents, binding and physical properties of the MS. 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. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-1940. (Reprint 1961). MS cited vol. 1, p. 977.
Brief description, with information on the binding and provenance. HOLLIS
Sigrid Krämer. Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, 3 vols. München: C. H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1989-1990. MS cited vol. 2, p. 639
Cited in a list of MSS from the monastery of the Cistercians in Oliwa now in Poland. 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. 17-23, pl. 36; 65.
Full description of all aspects of MS, including text (pp. 17-21), physical properties of the MS (pp. 21-22), script (p. 22), and provenance (pp. 22-23). Plate 36 reproduces ff. 23v-24r; plate 65 reproduces f. 1. HOLLIS.
Baudouin Van den Abeele. No. 421, in “Bulletin Codicologique 2010, 2,” in Scriptorium 64.2 (2010). MS cited pp. 185-186*. HOLLIS
This summary includes Harvard College Library MS 15 (and in the “Index des Manuscrits,” as Harvard College Library MS Lat 15) in error. The correct call number for the manuscript used in this article is Houghton Library MS Typ 415.
