Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Lat 46

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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)

Sir Thomas Phillipps sale.  Sotheby’s, London, 10 June 1896, lot no. 1247.

Bernard Quaritch.  Catalogue 164. London: 1896, no. 168.

A. F. Manspeaker, “Description of Manuscript Lat. 46, Tibullus.” Manuscript, [Cambridge 1928], now Houghton b MS Lat 315(15).
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   

Seymour de Ricci, “A Handlist of Latin Classical Manuscripts in American Libraries,” Philological Quarterly 1 (1922), 100-108. MS cited p. 107.
HOLLIS
A brief description of MS with emphasis on its provenance.

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, fig. 105 (reproducing f. 1).
HOLLIS

Rodney G. Dennis.  “Collecting Early Manuscripts at Harvard,” Harvard Library Bulletin 31 (1983), 285—298.  MS cited pp. 287-289.  HOLLIS
MS is one of six classical texts acquire by Harvard in 1896.

Laura Light, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance  Manuscripts in the Houghton Library, Harvard University. Binghamton: Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1995. MS cited p. 92-96, pl. 50.
Thorough description of contents and physical properties of MS, with brief mention of production and provenance. Pl. 50 reproduces f. 1. HOLLIS

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