Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 157

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This bibliography was compiled by Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll and William Stoneman.
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HOLLIS Record (Link) and Digital Images (Link)

 

C. Mazzi, “Sonetti de Felice Feliciano,” La Bibliofilia III (1901/2), 55-68.
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L. Pratilli, “Felice Feliciano alla luce dei suoi codici,” Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti XCIX part II (1939-40), MS cited p. 44 (as “Olschki”).

Houghton Library. The Houghton Library Report of Accessions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard College Library, 1946/47. MS cited p. 3.
A brief discussion of the manuscript in a list of manuscript acquisitions from that year. HOLLIS

E. H. Wilkins, “The Tale of Julia and Pruneo,” Harvard Library Bulletin 8.1 (1954), 102-107. MS cited p. 104, n. 7.
Available online (Link). HOLLIS

C. Mitchell, “Felice Feliciano Antiquarius,” Proceedings of the British Academy XLVII (1961). MS cited pp. 200, 201 n. 1, 203 n. 5, 220.
Briefly discussed as a source for letters of Felice Feliciano. 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. 265.
A description of the manuscript listing its contents with folio numbers. Additional notes on the scribe, provenance, and bibliography. 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

Leon Battista Alberti, Ippolito e Lionora. From a Manuscript of Felice Feliciano in the Harvard College Library, Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1970. MS cited pp. 9, 68, 101.
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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 pp. 125-126, with fig. 92 reproducing f. 96v.
Brief description of the manuscript with additional notes on binding, provenance and bibliography. HOLLIS

James Hankins, “Bruni Manuscripts in North America: A Handlist,” Per il censimento dei codici dell’epistolario di Leonardo Bruni, ed. by Lucia Gualdo Rosa e Paolo Viti, pp. 55-90. Rome: Instituto storico italiano per il medio evo, 1991. MS cited p. 69 as no. *19.
A brief description of the manuscript with notes on provenance and bibliography. HOLLIS

Gino Castiglioni, “Il calamo felice: notarella su Feliciano decoratore,” Verona illustrata: Rivista del Museo di Castelvecchio 1 (1988), 19–30.
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James Hankins, Italian Humanists in Ten Manuscripts from the Houghton Library: An Exhibition on the Occasion of the Annual National Meeting of The Renaissance Society of America. Cambridge, Mass.: The Library, 1989. MS cited no. 4.
A brief description of the manuscript with an additional note on its scribe, Felice Feliciano. HOLLIS

Agostino Conto, “Il Petrarca di Feliciano,” in Per Alberto Piazzi: Scritti offerti nel suo 50 di sacerdozio, ed. Carlo Albarello and Giuseppe Zivelonghi, 105-115. Verona: Biblioteca capitolare di Verona, 1998.
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Sigrid Krämer. Scriptores codicum medii aevi: Datenbank von Schreiben und Besitzern mittelalterlicher Handschriften [electronic resource]. Augsburg: Dr. Erwin Rauner Verlag, 2001-2007.
Cited for its scribe “Feliciano, Felice (Felix)”
Available online (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 0157. Contains a basic description of the physical layout and contents of the manuscript. Link

Gino Castiglioni, ed.  La Parola Illuminata: Per una Storia della Miniatura a Verona e a Vicenza tra Medioevo e Età Romantica.  Verona: Fondazione Cariverona, 2011.  MS cited p. 172. HOLLIS
Refers to Feliciano’s poems relating to alchemy.