Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 37

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This bibliography was compiled by Aden Kumler, Julia Schlozman, Nadia Marx and William Stoneman.
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HOLLIS Record (Link)

Henry Huth & Alfred Henry Huth, Catalogue of the Famous Library of Printed Books, Illuminated Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Engravings. [London]: Dryden Press, J. Davy and Sons, 1911. MS cited v. 8, p. 2038 as Lot 7383.
Brief description of MS contents and physical characteristics. HOLLIS

Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth sale, Sotheby’s, London, 15 October 1945.  MS cited as lot no. 2039 and plate.  HOLLIS  MS sold in this sale to Stonehill for £290.

The Houghton Library Reports. Accessions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard College Library, 1946-47. MS cited p. 2.
HOLLIS
A brief description without call number in a report of annual accessions.

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. 43 and pl. 9 (reproducing ff. 104v-105).
HOLLIS
Brief description in this exhibition catalogue.

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. 254.
HOLLIS
Brief description.