Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Lat 206

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This bibliography was compiled by Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll and William Stoneman.
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Martin Breslauer, Catalogue 71 (1950). MS described p. 25-26, no. 79.
Brief description of the physical properties of the MS, its decoration, and its historical context. HOLLIS.

Martin Breslauer, Catalogue 74 (1951). MS described p. 20-21, no. 163.
Brief description containing the same information as in Catalogue 71. HOLLIS.

The Houghton Library Report of Accessions For the Year 1952-1953. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library, 1953. MS cited p. 2.
Mentioned, without shelfmark, as an acquisition. HOLLIS.

B. L. Ullman, ed. Colucii Salutati de seculo et religione. Florence: Leo Olschki, 1957. MS cited p. viii.
Cited and briefly described in a critical edition of De seculo, with particular attention to provenance. HOLLIS

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. 241.
Very brief description. HOLLIS

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

François Avril. Review of Roger S. Wieck, Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, 1350-1525, in the Houghton LibraryBulletin du Bibliophile 1977, 365-369.  MS Cited p. 367.  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. 111, with fig. 36 reproducing f. 3r.
Brief description of the manuscript’s physical properties, miniatures, provenance, and bibliography. HOLLIS

François Avril. Review of Wieck 1983. Bulletin du Bibliophile 3 (1984), 367. MS cited p. 367.
Suggests MS was produced in Bologna. HOLLIS.

James Hankins. Italian Humanists in Ten Manuscripts from the Houghton Library. Cambridge, Mass: Houghton Library, 1989. MS cited p. 11-12, no. 9
Discussion of the historical context and provenance of the MS. HOLLIS.