Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 215
This bibliography was compiled by Aden Kumler, Julia Schlozman, Nadia Marx, Johanna Rodda, William Stoneman and Nadia Kavrus-Hoffman.
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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, Mass.: n.p., 1955. MS cited as no. 6 and pl. 2 (reproducing ff. 75v and 76v).
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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. 271.
Brief description.
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Gary Vikan, Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections; An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann. [Princeton, N.J.]: Art Museum, Princeton University; distributed by Princeton University Press, 1973. MS cited n. 38.
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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. 8-9, no. 4. HOLLIS
A full description of the MS in this exhibition catalogue.
Rodney G. Dennis, “The World of Madness and the World of Dreams: Charles Sumner and Philip Hofer as Collectors of Early Manuscripts,” Gazette of the Grolier Club, new series 42 (1990), 17-37. Typ 215 cited p. 35 without shelfmark.
Brief allusion to the manuscript as a reflection of the acquisition efforts of the donor to Harvard.
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John Duffy and Dimiter G. Angelov. “Observations on a Byzantine Manuscript in Harvard College Library. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 100 (2000): 501-14. HOLLIS
Available online. Link
Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffman, “Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Collections of the United States of America: Part V.3: Harvard University, The Houghton Library,” Manuscripta 55.1 (2011): 1-108 HOLLIS (Link). MS cited pp. 3 and 35-45 and Figs. 6-7 (reproducing ff. 146 and 196).
Complete scholarly description.
