Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Lat 157

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This bibliography was compiled by Laura Light, Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll and William Stoneman.
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W.H. Bond and C.U. Faye, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962. MS cited p. 237.
Brief description with information on the script, dating and provenance. HOLLIS

E. A. Lowe. “A New List of Beneventan Manuscripts.” In Collectanea Vaticana in honorem Anselmi M. Card. Albareda.  Studi e testi 220 (Vatican City 1962), 211-244. MS cited pp. 218-20.
Brief description, correcting the dating given by Bond and Faye, also noting coming from the same folio as Chicago, Newberry Library, MS 36a. HOLLIS

M. Huglo. “Liste complémentaire de manuscrits bénéventains.” Scriptorium 18 (1964), 89-91. MS cited p. 91.
Cited in a list of Beneventan MSS. Note that the place is erroneously identified as Washington. HOLLIS

M. Masi. “Newberry MSS Fragments, S. VII– S. XV.” Mediaeval Studies 34 (1992), 99-112. MS cited p. 108.
Mentioned as coming from the same folio as MS in Newberry Library, here referred to as Frag 49 (B-12). HOLLIS

Virginia Brown. “A Second New List of Beneventan Manuscripts (I).” Mediaeval Studies 40 (1978), 239-289. MS cited p. 289.
Corrects the information in Huglo 1964, which misleadingly listed the location of this fragment as Washington. HOLLIS

E.A. Loew [=Lowe]. The Beneventan Script:  A History of the South Italian minuscule, rev. ed. by Virginia Brown.  Sussidi Eruditi 34 (Rome 1980). MS cited vol. 2, p.29.
Cited in a list of Beneventan MSS. HOLLIS

Laura Light. The Bible in the Twelfth Century: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at the Houghton Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1988. MS cited p 107.
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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. 221-222.
Full description of all aspects of MS, including text (pp. 221), physical properties of the MS (p. 221), script (p. 221), decoration (pp.222), and provenance (pp. 222). HOLLIS.

Giacomo Baroffio, Iter Liturgicum Italicum. Padova: CLEUP Editrice, 1999. MS cited p. 43.
Cited in a list of Italian liturgical manuscripts. HOLLIS.

Bibliografia dei manoscritti in scrittura beneventana. (Website). Accessed 4 October 2012.
Cited in a list of Beneventan manuscripts. Internet link.