Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 9
This bibliography was compiled by Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll, and Johanna Rodda.
Please be advised that some links may require Harvard ID and PIN.
HOLLIS Record (Link) and Digital Images (Link)
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Bibliotheca Phillippica, 1903-1950. MS cited p. 10.
HOLLIS
Houghton Library. The Houghton Library Report of Accessions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard College Library, 1946/47. MS cited p. 3.
A brief discussion of the manuscript in a list of manuscript acquisitions from that year. HOLLIS
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. 26, no. 84.
A brief description of the manuscript with an additional note on 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. 251.
A brief description of the manuscript with a note on provenance. 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. 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. (Link) HOLLIS
Baltimore Museum of Art. 2,000 Years of Calligraphy: A Three-part Exhibition Organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Peabody Institute Library and the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: n. p., 1965. MS cited p. 64, no. 46, illus.
A brief description and discussion of the manuscript, with emphasis on its script and provenance. 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. 68, no. 33.
A discussion of the manuscript focusing on its scribe, illuminator, and provenance. HOLLIS
Albinia de la Mare, New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence, vol. II of Miniatura fiorentina del rinascimento, 1440–1525: Un primo censimento, ed. by Annarose Garzelli. Florence: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985. MS cited pp. 566–67, 596.
A discussion of the manuscript linking the scribe to two other manuscripts (BL Add. 14800 and Vat. Lat. 1614) and the white-vine decoration to Filippo Torelli. HOLLIS
James Hankins, Italian Humanists in Ten Manuscripts from the Houghton Library. Cambridge, Mass.: The Library, 1989. MS cited no. 10.
A discussion of the manuscript drawing upon much of the same information found in de la Mare (1985). HOLLIS
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 9, f. 1 reproduced as fig. 3.
HOLLIS
James Hankins, “Bruni Manuscripts in North America: A Handlist,” Per il censimento dei codici dell’epistolario di Leonardo Bruni, ed. by Lucia Gualdo Rosa e Paolo Viti, pp. 55-90. Rome: Instituto storico italiano per il medio evo, 1991. MS cited p. 68.
A brief description of the manuscript with notes on provenance and bibliography. HOLLIS
Digital Scriptorium. Columbia University Libraries. (Online) Accessed 24 May 2010. Internet Link
A searchable database of manuscripts from various collections. Search or browse under shelfmark MS Typ 0009. Contains a basic description of the physical layout and contents of the manuscript. Link
