Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Lat 298

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This bibliography was compiled by Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll and William Stoneman.
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C. H. Clough. “The Chancery letter-files of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini.” In Domenico Maffei, ed. Enea Silvio Piccolomini papa Pio II. Atti del Convegno per il quinto centenario della morte e altri scritti raccolti da Domenico Maffei, 117-132.  Siena, 1968. MS cited p. 125; n. 31.
Discusses the provenance of the MS. HOLLIS.

Important Books (Laurence Witten Sale Catalogue 5), New Haven 1962. MS cited p. 51, no. 39.
Brief description.

History Illustrated (Goldschmidt Catalogue 129). London 1965. MS cited p. 2, no. 1.
Brief description.

The Houghton Library Report of Accessions For the Year 1964-1966. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library, 1965. MS cited p. 4.
Mentioned as an acquisition. 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. 227.
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

James Hankins. Italian Humanists in Ten Manuscripts from the Houghton Library. Cambridge, Mass: Houghton Library, 1989. MS described pp. 9-10, no. 7.
Description of the historical context of the letter. HOLLIS.

Frank Anthony D'Accone. The Civic Muse: Music and Musicians In Siena During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. MS cited p. 195, n. 25.
Cited with a description of the letter’s historical context. HOLLIS.

Christopher A. Reynolds . Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513. Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1995. MS cited 99, n. 51.
Cited with a description of its historical context. Available online (Link). HOLLIS.