Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 129
This bibliography was compiled by Aden Kumler, Julia Schlozman, Nadia Marx and William Stoneman.
Please be advised that some links may require Harvard ID and PIN.
HOLLIS Record (Link)
Philip Hofer “A Newly Discovered Manuscript of Frederick Hohenstaufen’s ‘Art of Falconry,’” Harvard Library Bulletin, VII (1953), p.19-31. MS cited pl. I, III, IV, VIb, VIII.
Full text available online (Link) HOLLIS
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 p. 28, n. 97, pl. 56 57.
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Gustaf Holmér, Traduction en vieux français du De arte venandi cum avibus. Studia Romanica Holmiensia, 4. Lund: C. Bloms, 1960. MS cited p. 1-2.
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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. 261-262.
Brief description of manuscript’s contents, physical properties, and provenance.
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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. 232.
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
Carl Arnold Willemsen, Kaiser Friedrich, der Zweite: Über die Kunst mit Vögeln zu jagen. Kommentar zur lateinischen und deutschen Ausg. [Frankfurt a.M.]: Insel-Verlag, 1970. MS cited p. 82-83, 332, pl. LIX-LXI
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H.P. Kraus, In Retrospect: A Catalogue of 100 Outstanding Manuscripts Sold in the Last Four Decades by H.P. Kraus. New York: Kraus, 1978. MS cited p. 210-11, n. 84.
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Gruuthusemuseum (Bruges, Belgium). Vlaamse kunst op perkament: Handschriften en miniaturen te Brugge van de 12de tot de 16de eeuw : tentoonstelling ingericht door de Stad Brugge in het Gruuthusemuseum 18 juli-18 oktober 1981. Bruges: Stad Brugge, 1981. MS cited p. 266.
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. 54, 123, n. 26.
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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. 12. HOLLIS
A passing reference without call number in a list of Hofer manuscripts dealing with animals.
Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance: the triumph of Flemish manuscript painting in Europe. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003. HOLLIS
John Resler Swift. Bibliotheca Accipitraria II: A Catalogue of Books Ancient and Modern relating to Falconry, published in the English Language 1486 to 2000. Boise, Idaho: Archives of Falconry, 2011. MS cited p. A-3. HOLLIS
This MS, without call number, described as a “most outstanding volume … the 1486-illuminated manuscript titled L’Art de Chasse aux Oiseaux, being a translation of Frederick II’s De Arte Venandi cum Avibus. It has over 900 marginal paintings by the Flemish Boethius, and is the only illuminated manuscript of this work in North America” in a brief list of collection highspots of Harvard University.
Duke of Devonshire sale at Sotheby’s, London, 5 December 2012. Lot no. 51, Louis de Gruuthuses’s copy of the Deeds of Sir Gillion de Trazegnies in the Middle East.
This MS cited in a list of 21 other manuscripts outside the Bibliothèque national de France which contains the residue of Louis de Gruuthuse’s library of 155 volumes which was presented to King Louis XII of France.
Anne Margreet W. As-Vijvers. Re-Making the Margins: The Master of the David Scenes and Flemish Manuscript Painting around 1500. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. MS cited pp. 103 and 109.
