Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 17
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)
Walters Art Gallery, The History of Bookbinding, 525–1950 A.D.: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, November 12, 1957 to January 12, 1958. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1957. MS cited no. 136, p. XXXIV (reproducing binding).
A description and discussion of the manuscript’s binding with a note on provenance. HOLLIS
Ernest H. Wilkins, “The Harvard MS. of Petrarch’s Africa,” Harvard Library Bulletin, XII.3 (1958) 320-325, with 2 plates (reproducing f. 152v and binding).
A thorough discussion of the text with excerpts. Available online (Link). HOLLIS
B.L. Ullman, “Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States,” Italia medioevali e umanistica, 5 (1962), pp. 443–75. MS cited no. 15.
A brief description of the manuscript. 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. 252.
A brief description 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. 232.
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
Michael Jasenas. Petrarch in America: A Survey of Petrarchan Manuscripts. Washington: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1974. MS cited pp. 33-34, no. 20 pl. 15 (of f. I). HOLLIS
Dennis Dutschke, Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States, Censimento dei Codici Petrarcheschi, 9. Padua: Antenore, 1986. MS cited no. 23, pp. 87-90.
An extensive description of the manuscript with excerpts from the text and folio numbers. HOLLIS
Sigrid Krämer. Scriptores codicum medii aevi: Datenbank von Schreiben und Besitzern mittelalterlicher Handschriften [electronic resource]. Augsburg: Dr. Erwin Rauner Verlag, 2001-2007.
Cited for its scribe, “Collis, Johannes Antonius de.” Available online (Link). HOLLIS
Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts. Penn Libraries. (Online) Accessed 4 March 2010. Internet Link
A listing of manuscripts based on provenance. Search under shelfmark MS Typ 17. Link
Digital Scriptorium. Columbia University Libraries. (Online) Accessed 4 March 2010. Internet Link
A searchable database of manuscripts from various collections. Search or browse under shelfmark MS Typ 0017. Contains a basic description of the physical layout and contents of the manuscript. Link
