Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 5

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This bibliography was compiled by Aden Kumler, Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll and William Stoneman.
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Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Phillippica. Middlehall, 1937. MS cited p. 97.

Houghton Library. The Houghton Library Reports. Accessions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard College Library, 1946/47. MS cited p. 3.
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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 p. 21, no. 60.
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F. Pinto, “Per la storia della libreria medicea nel Rinascimento,” Italia medioevale e umanistica III (1960), 189-210.
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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 pp. 250-251.
Brief description of manuscript’s contents, physical properties, and provenance.
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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. 233.
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, Typographic Collection.  (LinkHOLLIS

Berthold L. Ullman and Philip A. Stadter, The Public Library of Renaissance Florence: Niccolò Niccoli, Cosimo de’ Medici and the Library of San Marco. Padua: Antenore, 1972. MS cited no. 760.
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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. 118 with fig. 120 reproducing f. 1.
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James Hankins, Italian Humanists in Ten Manuscripts from Houghton Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Library, 1989. MS cited no. 1.
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Rodney G. Dennis, “The World of Madness and the World of Dreams: Charles Sumner and Philip Hofer as Collectors of Early Manuscripts,” Gazette of the Grolier Club, new series 42 (1990), 17-37.  Typ 5 cited p. 28 without shelfmark. 
Brief allusion to the manuscript as a reflection of the acquisition efforts of the donor to Harvard.
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James Hankins, “Ptolemy’s Geography in the Renaissance,” in The Marks in the Field, Essays on the Uses of Manuscripts, ed. Rodney G. Dennis with E. Falsey. Cambridge, Mass: Houghton Library, 1992.
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A. C. de la Mare, “Cosimo and His Books,” in Cosimo ‘il Vecchio’ de’ Medici, 1389-1464, ed. Francis Ames-Lewis, pp. 115-156. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. MS cited p. 137 and n. 80.
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