Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 69

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

Seymour de Ricci, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, II. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-1940. (Reprint 1961). MS cited p. 1698 as Hofer’s MS 25.
Brief description. HOLLIS   

Philip Hofer and G. W. Cottrell, Jr., “Angelos Vergecios and the Bestiary of Manuel Phile,” Harvard Library Bulletin, VIII (1954), p. 323-339. MS cited p. 323 n. 1.
Full text available online (Link). 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. 257.
Brief description of 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. 234.
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.  (LinkHOLLIS

François Avril. Review of Roger S. Wieck, Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, 1350-1525, in the Houghton LibraryBulletin du Bibliophile 1977, 365-369.  MS Cited p. 368.  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. 121, fig. 101.
HOLLIS

A Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Philip Hofer Bequest in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1988.  MS cited p. 52.  HOLLIS
MS cited briefly in relation to Mrs. A. Chester Beatty’s gift of MS Typ 222 to Harvard and Philip Hofer’s gift of this MS in her memory.

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 0069. Contains a basic description of the physical layout and contents of the manuscript. Link