Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 201

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This bibliography was compiled by Aden Kumler, Julia Schlozman and Nadia Marx.
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Henry Yates Thompson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Second Series of Fifty Manuscripts (Nos. 51 to 100) in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson. Cambridge [Eng.]: University Press, 1902. MS cited p. 206-209, n. 80.
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Léopold Delisle, Recherches sur la librairie de Charles V, II. Paris: H. Champion, 1907. MS cited p. 317.
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A. Laborde, Les manuscrits à peintures de la Cité de Dieu de Saint Augustin, I. Paris: Pour la Société des bibliophiles françois, É. Rahir, 1909. MS cited p. 241-44, n. 7, pl. VI-IX.
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Henry Yates Thompson, Illustrations from One Hundred Manuscripts in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson, Each of Which Belonged to Some Individual of Note in France or Italy in the XIVth or XVth Century. London: Printed at the Chiswick press, 1915. MS cited pl. VI & VII.
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Henry Martin, La miniature française du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Paris: G. van Oest & cie, 1923. MS cited p. 49-50.
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Eric George Millar, The Library of A. Chester Beatty; A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts, II. [London]: Priv. Print. by J. Johnson at the Oxford University Press and sold by B. Quaritch, 1930. MS cited p. 144-47, n. 73, pl. CLIX-CLXI.
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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, II. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-1940. (Reprint 1961). MS cited p. 1695-1696, n. 17.
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Arts of the Middle Ages: A Loan Exhibition. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1940. MS cited p. 16, n. 45a.
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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 BaltimoreMuseum of Art, January 27–March 13. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1949. MS cited p. 28, n. 70, pl. XXXIII.
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Carnegie Institute, French Painting 1100-1900. Pittsburgh, 1951. MS cited n. 8.
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Erwin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character, I. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. MS cited p. 42, note 2 and p. 47, note 4.
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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. 18, n. 46, pl. 11, 12.
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Walters Art Gallery, The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400; [Exhibition]: October 23-December 2, 1962. MS cited p. 43-45, n. 41, pl. XLVIII.
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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. 270.
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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. 233.
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La librarie de Charles V, Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1968. MS cited p. 102, n. 177.
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Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry; The Late Fourteenth Century and Patronage of the Duke. London: Phaidon, 1969. MS cited p. 121-22, 174, 298, 309, 365 n. 105, fig. 535.
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Sharon Off Dunlap Smith, Illustrations of Raoul De Praelles' Translation of St. Augustine's City of God between 1375 and 1420. Unpublished PhD thesis: New York University, 1974. MS cited p. 47-70, p. 200-204, fig. 10, 12, 14, 17, 26, 28.
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Sharon Off Dunlap Smith, “New Themes for the City of God Around 1400: The Illustrations of Raoul de Presles’ Translation,” Scriptorium, XXXVI (1982), p. 68-82. MS cited p. 69 n. 6.
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François Avril, “Un chef-d’oeuvre de l’enluminure sous le règne de Jean le Bon: La Bible Moralisée, manuscrit français 167 de la Bibliothèque nationale,” Monuments et mémoire publiés par L’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Fondation Eugène Piot 58 (1972). MS cited p. 98, n. 1.
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Roger S. Wieck, “French Illuminated manuscripts in the Houghton Library: Recent Discoveries and Attributions,” Harvard Library Bulletin 31.2 (1983), p. 188–198. MS cited p. 188-189, fig. 2
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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 n. 2.
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