Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Lat 242
This bibliography was compiled by Nadia Marx, Johanna Rodda and William Stoneman.
Please be advised that some links may require Harvard ID and PIN.
HOLLIS Record (Link) and Digital Images (Link)
Thomas Hermerken à Kempis. Opera omnia. Friburgi Brisigavorum: Herder, 1902-1922. (microfilm) HOLLIS
Contains the Hortulus rosarum (Vol. 4) and De Imitatione Christ (Vol. 2). (Latin)
Seymour de Ricci. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. With the assistance of W. J. Wilson. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-1940. (Reprint 1961). MS cited pp. 993-994 as C803.010.
Lists the contents of the manuscript, with folio numbers, gives information on the physical manuscript (vellum and paper; illuminated initials) and date of composition (9 July 1501). It gives Severinus Volram as the scribe, as well as author-compiler of the Scala devotionis. (Scala devotionis fratris Severinus Bolswardiae…scriptum per manus fratris eiusdem.) 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. 243.
Cross-reference to the de Ricci. Notes that “Severinus de Belguardia and Severinus Volram should both read Severinus de Bolsward.” Notes that the manuscript was probably written not in Germany but in the Netherlands. HOLLIS
Bernard Lambert. Biblioteca Hieronymiana Manuscripta: La Tradition Manuscrite des Oeuvres de Saint Jérôme. 4 vols. Instrumenta Patristica 4. ‘s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1969-1972. HOLLIS
MS cited in vol. 4, p. 10 (no. 990) in a list of manuscripts of unidentified works of Jerome under its former shelfmark C.803.010.
Erika Bauer."Die oberdeutsche Überlieferung der Imitatio Christi." Spätmittelalterliche geistliche Literatur in der Nationalsprache. Vol. 1. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1983. 111-135. HOLLIS
The current manuscript contains a copy of Kempis, De Imitatione Christi (fols. 39r-99v, imperfect)
Werner Williams-Krapp. "Die süddeutschen Übersetzungen der 'Imitatio Christi'. Zur Rezeption der Devotio moderna im oberlant." Aus dem Winkel in die Welt. Die Bücher des Thomas von Kempen und ihre Schicksale. Introduced by Ulrike Bodemann und Nikolaus Staubach. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2006: 65-79. HOLLIS
The current manuscript contains a copy of Kempis, De Imitatione Christi (fols. 39r-99v, imperfect).
Handschriftencensus: Eine Bestandaufnahme der handschriftlichen Überlieferung deutschsprachiger Texte des Mittelalters. (website) Accessed 19 October 2009.
Listed in a census of medieval German manuscripts. (Link)
