Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Lat 186
This bibliography was compiled by Julia Schlozman, Nadia Marx and William Stoneman.
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HOLLIS Record (Link) and Digital Images (Link)
Houghton Library Report of Accessions for the Year 1947-48. Cambridge, MA: 1948. MS cited p. 2. HOLLIS
Brief description, without shelfmark, in a report of annual accessions.
Toledo Museum of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Music Manuscripts. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, 1953. MS cited on p. 34 as no. 93. HOLLIS
Brief exhibition catalogue description.
Harvard College Library, Illuminated & Calligraphic Manuscripts: An Exhibition held at the Fogg Art Museum & Houghton Library, February 14–April 1, 1955. Cambridge, Mass.: n.p., 1955. MS cited as no. 118 and pl. 25 (reproducing f. xliiii verso)
HOLLIS
Brief exhibition catalogue description.
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. 239.
HOLLIS
Brief description.
Roger S. Wieck, “French Illuminated manuscripts in the Houghton Library: Recent Discoveries and Attributions,” Harvard Library Bulletin 31.2 (1983), p. 188–198. MS cited pp. 195-197 and fig. 8 (reproducing f. ciii).
Available online. (Link). HOLLIS
Wieck suggests that this MS was decorated by the Master of Morgan 85 when he had established himself in Rouen.
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. 38-39 as no. 18 and pl. (reproducing f. ci verso).
HOLLIS
Exhibition catalogue description and discussion of this MS as the work of the Master of Morgan 85.
Christopher de Hamel. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Boston: D.A. Godine, 1986. MS reproduced p. 200. HOLLIS
MS is pl. 206 (reproducing f. ci verso).
Lilian M.C. Randall, assisted by Christopher Clarkson and Jeanne Krochalis, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, Volume II: France, 1420–1540. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. MS cited p. 483 (for Walters W. 460).
HOLLIS
Discussion of the four volumes of this Gradual that survive, including Walters MS W. 460; Houghton MS Lat 186; Claremont College, Denison Library MS Perkins 4; and Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz MS lat. fol. 830. The author points out that the Baltimore and Claremont volumes are for the Temporale and the Cambridge and Berlin volumes for the Sanctorale. The Berlin volume emphasizes St. Andrew and the founders of monastic orders, including St. Benedict, St. Augustine, St. Francis and St. Nicolas of Tolentino.
William M. Voelkle and Roger S. Wieck, assisted by Maria Francesca P. Saffioti, The Bernard H. Breslauer Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1992. MS cited in no. 12.
HOLLIS
The authors point out that the four extant volumes from this set lack Advent, Christmas and Lent and suggest that the Breslauer cutting of the Entry into Jerusalem may be from another dismembered volume of the set.
Caroline Zöhl, Jean Pichore: Buchmaler, Graphiker und Verleger in Paris um 1500. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004. MS cited p. 184.
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