Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 210
This bibliography was compiled by Justin Stover and Joshua O’Driscoll.
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HOLLIS record (link)
Harvard College Library, Illuminated & Calligraphic Manuscripts: An Exhibition held at the Fogg Art Museum & Houghton Library, February 14-April 1, 1955. Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1955. MS cited p. 11, no. 10 and pl. 7. Brief description. Plate 7 reproduces f. 81v. HOLLIS
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 vol. 1, p. 1161, no. 5.
Brief description. Note: MS cited as Acton Grimson, MS 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. 270.
Very brief mention. 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. 27-29, no. 8.
Lengthy description, covering all aspects of the manuscript (p. 30), with particular attention to the script, the parchment, and the physical properties of the manuscript, in addition to comments on its historical and social context (pp.30-31). HOLLIS
Mirella Ferrari, “Dopo Bernardo: biblioteche e ‘scriptoria’ cisterciensi dell’Italia settentrionale nel XII secolo,” in Pietro Zerbi, ed., San Bernardo e l’Italia. Milan, 1993. MS cited p. 290, 292 and 304.
Discussion of the books of the Abbey of Morimondo. HOLLIS.
Mirella Ferrari, “Sui ‘Salmi’ e sui ‘Profeti’: dal primo catalogo di Morimondo alla Biblioteca Braidense,” in Studi di Storia dell’arte in onore di Maria Luisa Gatti Perer, ed. Marco Rossi and Alessandro Rovetta, pp. 33-46. Milano: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 1999. MS cited pp. 45 and 46 as nos. 30 and 54 in a catalogue of Morimondo manuscripts. HOLLIS
Brief reference.
