Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 179

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This bibliography was compiled by Aden Kumler, Julia Schlozman, Nadia Marx and William Stoneman.
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Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.) and Dorothy Miner, Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, January 27–March 13. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1949. MS cited n. 187.
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T. de Marinis, La Biblioteca Napoletana dei Re d’Aragona.  Milan, 1952.  MS cited p. 1, 57, no. 17.

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. 73, pl. 37.
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Portland Art Association, Calligraphy: The Golden Age and its Revival.  Portland, Oregon, 1958.  MS cited no. 9 and pl. 5. HOLLIS

Alfred Fairbank and Berthold Wolpe, Renaissance Handwriting.  London, 1960. MS cited pl. 5. 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. 267.
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. 235.
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

Adriana Marucchi, “Note su un nuovo manoscritto Carafa scritto da Ippolito Lunense nel Fondo Reginense,” Revue d’Histoire des Textes, III, 1973.  MS cited pp. 299 and 302.

Nicholas Mann, “Petrarch Manuscripts in the British Isles,” Italia medieval e umanistica, XVIII, 1975.  MS cited p. 218, note 1.

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. 24-25 as no. 12.  HOLLIS 
A full description of the MS in this exhibition catalogue.