Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Lat 43

This bibliography page is under continual review as new information becomes available. We welcome additions from the scholarly community. Submit your additions to us via e-mail.

This bibliography was compiled by Laura Light, Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll and William Stoneman.
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HOLLIS Record (Link) and Digital Images (Link)

Seymour de Ricci, “A Handlist of Latin Classical Manuscripts in American Libraries,” Philological Quarterly 1 (1922), 100-108. MS cited p. 106.
HOLLIS
A brief description of MS with emphasis on its provenance.

Franklin W. Jones, “MS Lat 43.  Plauti, Comoediae octo,” (typescript, 1928) now Houghton, bMS Lat 315(11).
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 v. I, p. 981.
Brief description. HOLLIS   

2,000 Years of Calligraphy: A Three-part Exhibition Organized by the BaltimoreMuseum of Art, the Peabody Institute Library [and] the WaltersArtGallery, June 6–July 18, 1965: A Comprehensive Catalog, compiled by Dorothy E. Miner, Victor I. Carlson, and P.W. Filby. Baltimore: [n.p.], 1965. MS cited p. 60, no. 42 with pl reproducing f. 60.

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; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1963–97. MS cited in v. V, p. 226.
Accessible through Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, a “subscribers only” database.  To search the database, connect to: Iter Italicum and search by Houghton Library, Latin Manuscripts.  (LinkHOLLIS

Roger S. Wieck, Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, 1350–1525, in the Houghton Library. Cambridge: Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, 1983. MS cited p. 108 with fig. 119 reproducing f. 1.
HOLLIS

Laura Light, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance  Manuscripts in the Houghton Library, Harvard University. Binghamton: Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1995. MS cited p. 77-84 with pl. 54 reproducing f. 60.
HOLLIS
Sigrid Krämer. Scriptores codicum medii aevi: Datenbank von Schreiben und Besitzern mittelalterlicher Handschriften [electronic resource], (Augsburg: Dr. Erwin Rauner Verlag, 2001-2007). Accessed 27 June 2007.
Cited for its scribe, Piero Cennini. Available online (Link). HOLLIS

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