Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 205

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This bibliography was compiled by Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll and William Stoneman.
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HOLLIS

Erik von Scherling, Rotulus 7 (1958). MS cited designated no. 2479.
Description of contents with incipits and explicits (f. 1r and f. 96v), with notes on the script, dating binding and physical properties of MS. HOLLIS

Harvard College Library, Illuminated & Calligraphic Manuscripts: An Exhibition held at the Fogg Art Museum & Houghton Library, February 14-April 1, 1955 (Cambridge, MA, 1955). MS cited p. 12, no. 16.
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.
Very brief description. HOLLIS

Laura Light. The Bible in the Twelfth Century: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at the Houghton Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1988. MS cited pp. 56-58, no. 21, pl. 14.
Description, covering all aspects of the MS (p. 57) with particular attention to the script, the parchment, and the physical properties of the manuscript, in addition to comments on the author and historical context of the MS (pp. 57-58). Plate 14 (p. 56) reproduces f. 5r. HOLLIS           

Friedrich Simader, Illuminierte Handschriften aus Österreich (ca. 780 - ca. 1250). (online database). Accessed 9 August 2007.
Briefly described. Note that location is incorrectly described as “Cambridge, College Library.” Internet link.

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. 269.  HOLLIS
Brief derivative description.