Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Lat 40
This bibliography was compiled by Justin Stover.
Please be advised that some links may require Harvard ID and PIN.
HOLLIS and Digital Images
Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue of Upwards of Fourteen Hundred Manuscripts Upon Vellum and Paper Collected In This And Other Countries…From the Conquest To the Present Time. 1836. MS designated no. 735.
Brief description.
Bernard Quaritch, A Catalogue of Illuminated and Historical Manuscripts (no. 164), 1896. MS described p. 25, no. 104.
Brief description with incipits and explicits, and information on the script.
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. 145, no. 9174.
Very brief citation. HOLLIS.
Seymour de Ricci “A Handlist of Latin Classical Manuscripts in American Libraries.” Philological Quarterly 1 (1922), 100-108. MS cited p. 104.
Brief citation with discussion of provenance in a list of Juvenal manuscripts. Available online at Gallica (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. 980.
Brief description with information on the binding and provenance. HOLLIS
A. N. L. Munby. The Formation of the Phillipps Library. Phillipps Studies 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956. MS cited p. 164.
Very brief mention of provenance. HOLLIS.
Eva Matthews Sanford. “Gaspare Veronese, Teacher and Humanist.” Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 84. (1953), 190-209. MS cited p. 208.
Citation of a marginal note on Sat. 16, l. 42. Available online at JSTOR (Link). HOLLIS.
David Wiesen. “Juvenal 10. 358.” Classical Philology 64.2 (1969), 73-80. MS cited p. 75.
Citation of a marginal note on Sat. 10, l. 358. Available online at JSTOR (Link). HOLLIS.
Roger S. Wieck. Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, 1350–1525, in the Houghton Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, 1983. MS described p. 108 and fig. 116.
Brief description with particular attention to provenance. Fig. 116 reproduces f. 1. HOLLIS.
Laura Light, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Houghton Library of HarvardUniversity. Volume 1: MSS Lat 3-179. Binghamton: State University of New York at Binghamton, 1995. MS described pp. 66-69, pl. 8.
Full description of all aspects of MS, including text (pp. 66-67), physical properties of the MS (p. 67), script (pp. 67-68), decoration (p. 68), and provenance (pp. 68-69). Plate 8 reproduces f. 1. HOLLIS.
