Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 24
This bibliography was compiled by Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll and William Stoneman.
Please be advised that some links may require Harvard ID and PIN.
HOLLIS Record (Link) and Digital Images (Link)
James Wardrop, “Six Italian Manuscripts in the Department of Graphic Arts,” Harvard Library Bulletin 7.2 (1953), 221-225. MS cited pp. 221-222 with pl. I reproducing ff. 1 and 37.
A brief discussion of the manuscript. Available online (Link). HOLLIS
E. H. Wilkins, “The Tale of Julia and Pruneo,” Harvard Library Bulletin 8.1 (1954), 102-107.
A description of the manuscript with emphasis on the story of Julia and Pruneo. Available online (Link). HOLLIS
Cecil Grayson, “Alberti and the Vernacular Ecologue in the Quattrocento,” Italian Studies XI (1956), 16-29.
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Giovanni Mardersteig, “Leon Battista Alberti e la rinascita del carratere lapidario romano nel Quattrocento,” Italia medioevale e humanistica 2 (1959), pp. 285–307. MS cited p. 302.
The manuscript is briefly mentioned in support of a connection between Felice Feliciano and Alberti. HOLLIS
Giovanni Mardersteig, ed., Felice Feliciano Veronese: Alphabetum Romanum. Verona: Editiones Officinae Bodoni, 1960. MS cited p. 137.
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C. Mitchell, “Felice Feliciano Antiquarius,” Proceedings of the British Academy XlVII, 1961. MS cited p. 221.
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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 p. 253.
Brief description of the manuscript, listing contents with folio numbers. 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
Leon Battista Alberti, Opere volgari, ed. Cecil Grayson. Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1966. MS cited v. II, pp. 387, 398, 400-401.
Brief description of the manuscript listing contents. HOLLIS
Leon Battista Alberti, Ippolito e Lionora. From a Manuscript of Felice Feliciano in the Harvard College Library, Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1970.
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Franco Riva, “Un ’edicione di “Ippolito e Lionora” da un autografo di Feliciano,” Atti dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, CXXIX, 1970-71, 127-34.
Franco Riva, “Un’ epistola di Feliciano sull’amicizia e proposte di ulteriori accertamenti,” Atti dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, CXXXIV, 1975-76, 664 no. 3, 671 no. 10.
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 pp. 119-120, with fig. 91 reproducing f. 37.
Brief description of the manuscript with additional notes on binding, provenance and bibliography. HOLLIS
Luigi Monga, “La ‘pietosa’ novella di Giulia e Pruneo: amore e suicido nel Quattrocento veneziano,” Esperienze letterarie 12.3 (1987), 49–65.
A discussion of the manuscript and a transcript of the text containing the story of Julia and Pruneo. HOLLIS
Gino Castiglioni, “Il calamo felice: notarella su Feliciano decoratore,” Verona illustrata: Rivista del Museo di Castelvecchio 1 (1988), 19–30.
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Anthony Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders: The Origins and Diffusion of the Humanistic Bookbinding, 1459–1559, with a Census of Historiated Plaquette and Medallion Bindings of the Renaissance. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. MS cited pp. 93 & 223 as nos. 19a & 21a.
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MS binding included in a Census of Plaquette and Medallion Bindings.
Luigi Monga, “Romeo and Juliet Revisited: More Novelle from the Italian Renaissance,” Manuscripta 33 (1989), 47–53.
A discussion of the manuscript’s three anonymous novelle. HOLLIS
Mirella Ferrari, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles, ed. by R.H. Rouse. Berkeley; Los Angeles; Oxford: University of California Press, 1991. MS cited p. 149.
Briefly cited as a comparison for no. 170/559. 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 incipit and notes on provenance and bibliography. 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, “Feliciano, Felice (Felix).” Available online (Link). HOLLIS
Antonio Gargano, Con accordato canto: Studi sulla poesia tra Italia e Spagna nei secoli XV-XVII. Napoli: Ligouri, 2005. MS cited p. 118, n. 23.
Quotes a rubric from the manuscript.
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 0024. Contains a basic description of the physical layout and contents of the manuscript. Link
Gino Castiglioni, ed. La Parola Illuminata: Per una Storia della Miniatura a Verona e a Vicenza tra Medioevo e Età Romantica. Verona: Fondazione Cariverona, 2011. MS cited pp. 115 and 153 and reproduced as V. 20 (reproducing f. 37). HOLLIS
Comments on the fanciful forms of the initial letters supplied by Felice Feliciano and the later influence of this style.
