Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 91

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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)

Houghton Library. The Houghton Library Reports. Accessions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard College Library, 1954-55. MS cited p. 12.
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 manuscript’s contents, physical properties, and 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. 122, fig. 96.
HOLLIS

Sigrid Kramer, Scriptores possessoresque codicum medii aevi Datenbank von Schreibern und Besitzern mittelalterlicher Handschriften.Augsburg: Dr. Erwin Rauner-Verlag, 2003-2007.
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 0091. Contains a basic description of the physical layout and contents of the manuscript. Link

Christopher de Hamel.  Gilding the Lilly.  A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library.  The Lilly Library, Indiana University Libraries, 2010, p. 154. 
MS cited in a list of works by the scribe, Leonardus Job.

Peter Kidd. “An Unnoticed Photograph at Houghton Library; or, Unknown Leaves from the Library of Raphael de Marcatellis,” Harvard Library Bulletin 21.2 (Piecing Together the Picture: Fragments of German and Netherlandish Manuscripts in Houghton Library edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger) (2010), 143-151.  MS cited p. 145. HOLLIS
In a passing reference Kidd identifies the arms in this MS as those of Angelo Fasolo (d. 1491) bishop of Feltre, and as by the same scribe as another dated and signed manuscript made for Fasolo and sold at Christie’s, London, 7 June 2006, lot no. 29 and color plate.