Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 200

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This bibliography was compiled by Aden Kumler, Julia Schlozman, Nadia Marx and William Stoneman.
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Eric George Millar, The Library of A. Chester Beatty; A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts I. [London]: Priv. Print. by J. Johnson at the Oxford University Press and sold by B. Quaritch, 1927. MS cited p. 117-18, n. 35, pl. LXXXVI.
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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. 13, n. 20, pl. 20.
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Seymour de Ricci, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-1940. (Reprint 1961). MS cited p. 1696 as New York, Collection of Philip Hofer, MS 20.
Brief description. 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. 270.
Brief description of manuscript’s contents, physical properties, and provenance.
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Dorothy Miner, “Since de Ricci – Western Illuminated Manuscripts Acquired Since 1934, II,” The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 31-32 (1968-1969), p. 40-118. MS cited p. 60.
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Walter Cahn, “A Twelfth-Century Decretum Fragment from Pontigny,” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62 (1975), p. 47-59. MS cited p. 53, n. 22.
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Christopher De Hamel, Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer, 1987. MS cited p. 46, n. 43.
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Laura Light, The Bible in the Twelfth Century: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at the Houghton Library. Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1988. MS cited p. 64-69, n. 25, pl. 17.
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Lilian M. C. Randall and Judith Oliver, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, I. Baltimore: Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989. MS cited n. 14.
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Monique Peyrafort-Huin, Patricia Danz Stirnemann and Jean-Luc Benoit, La bibliothèque médiévale de l'abbaye de Pontigny, XIIe-XIXe siècles: histoire, inventaires anciens, manuscrits. Paris: CNRS, 2001. MS cited n. 69.
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William P. Stoneman, Of Current Interest: Recent Research on Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Hougton Library. Cambridge: Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library, 2006. MS cited n. 8.
A brief description that provides bibliography and a list of the manuscript’s contents. HOLLIS

Jorge Juan Fernandez Sangrador. “Textos patristicos en la coleccion de manuscritos latinos antiguos de The Houghton Library (The Harvard College Library,” Helmantica 61 (2010), 259-278 at p. 268.  HOLLIS
Brief derivative description.

Don C. Skemer.  Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library.  Princeton: Department of Art & Archaeology and the Princeton University Library in association with the Princeton University Press, 2013.  MS cited I, 25.
This MS cited in a list as one of four MSS now in American collections, associated with the Cistercian Abbey of Notre Dame at Pontigny and purchased by Sir Thomas Phillips, in a description of Princeton, MS Garrett 30.