Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Lat 133
This bibliography was compiled by Laurs Light, Justin Stover, and Joshua O’Driscoll.
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HOLLIS Record (Link) and Digital Images (Link)
This manuscript is included in the Houghton Library website dedicated to Books of Hours, Picturing Prayer.
Eleanor P. Spencer, “The Mâitre François and His Atelier,” unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Harvard University, 1931. MS cited pp. 146, 166-67.
Refers to this manuscript as “Widener Library, the Bradbury Hours.” HOLLIS
A. Strittmatter. “Liturgische Handschriften in amerikanischen Bibliotheken.” Jahrbuch für Liturgiewissenschaft 14 (1938), 224-230. MS cited p. 229.
Listed in a census of liturgical manuscripts in American libraries. Available online at Digizeitschriften (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 v. I, p. 987.
Brief description of the manuscript with a note on provenance. HOLLIS
Roger S. Wieck, “French Illuminated manuscripts in the Houghton Library: Recent Discoveries and Attributions,” Harvard Library Bulletin 31.2 (1983), pp. 188–198. MS cited p. 192.
Very brief mention in a listing of the Library’s holdings of French illumination.
Available online (Link). HOLLIS
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. 109 with fig. 8 reproducing f. 13.
A brief description of the manuscript with notes on miniatures, illuminator, binding, provenance and bibliography. 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. 181-187, pl. 29.
An extensive description of the manuscript focusing on its contents and miniatures. HOLLIS
