Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 145

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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) and Digital Images (Link)

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 n. 131, pl. 43.
HOLLIS

Alfred Fairbank and Berthold Wolpe, Renaissance Handwriting.  London, 1960.  MS cited no. 42. HOLLIS

Philip Hofer, “Variant Issues of the First Edition of Ludovico Arrighi Vicentino’s Operina,” Harvard Library Bulletin, XIV, 1960.  MS cited pp. 334-342. 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. 263-264.
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

J. J. G. Alexander and Albinia Catherine De la Mare, The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J.R. Abbey. New York: Praeger, 1969. MS cited p. 167.
HOLLIS

Alfred Fairbank, “Another Arrighi Manuscripts, Douce 29,” The Book Collector, XXIII, 1974.  MS cited pp. 551-552.

Vera Law, “Two More Arrighi Manuscripts Discovered,” The Book Collector, XXVII, 1978.  MS cited pp. 368-379.

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 pp. 42-44 as no. 21.  HOLLIS 
A full description of the MS in this exhibition catalogue.