Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 18

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This bibliography was compiled Aden Kumler, Julia Schlozman, Nadia Marx, Johanna Rodda, William Stoneman and Nadia Kavrus-Hoffman.
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HOLLIS Record (Link) and Digital Images (Link)

The Houghton Library Reports. Accessions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard College Library, 1946-47. MS cited p. 3.
HOLLIS
Very brief description without a call number in a list of manuscripts deposited in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts.

The Houghton Library Reports. Accessions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard College Library 1947-48. MS cited p. 2-3.
HOLLIS
Second brief description without a call number as given to the library in honor of Mrs. Frederick Winslow.

Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.) and Dorothy Miner, Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, January 27–March 13. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1949. MS cited p. 72, n. 197.
HOLLIS
Brief catalogue description.

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 as no. 98 & pl. 39 (reproducing f. 1).
HOLLIS

Orpheus, Hymni, iterates curis edidit Guilelmus Quandt, Berlin: Weidmann, 1955. MS cited p. 81.

Jean, Martin, Histoire du texte des Phénomènes d'Aratos. Etudes et commentaires, 22. Paris: C. Klincksieck, 1956. MS cited p. 258-259.
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. 252-53.
Brief description of manuscript’s contents, physical properties, and provenance.
HOLLIS

The Houghton Library, 1942-1967; A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections. Cambridge: Harvard College Library [distributed by Harvard University Press], 1967. MS cited p. 184 and pl. (reproducing f. 1).
HOLLIS
Very brief description in survey of acquisitions.

Berthold L. Ullman and Philip A. Stadter, The Public Library of Renaissance Florence. Niccolò Niccoli, Cosimo De' Medici and the Library of San Marco. Medioevo e umanesimo, 10. Padova: Antenore, 1972. MS cited no. 1206.
Full text available online (Link). HOLLIS

Francis Vian, “La tradition manuscrite des Argonautiques Orphiques,” Revue d’Histoire des Textes, 9(1979), p. 1–46. MS cited as p.3.
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. 119, illustrated fig. 51.
HOLLIS

Sigrid Krämer. Scriptores codicum medii aevi: Datenbank von Schreiben und Besitzern mittelalterlicher Handschriften [electronic resource]. Augsburg: Dr. Erwin Rauner Verlag, 2003.
Electronic resource (Link). 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 0018. Contains a basic description of the physical layout and contents of the manuscript. Link

Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffman, “Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Collections of the United States of America: Part V.3: Harvard University, The Houghton Library,” Manuscripta 55.1 (2011): 1-10.  HOLLIS (Link)
MS cited pp. 2 and 7-16 and Fig. 1 (reproducing f.1).
Complete scholarly description.