Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 219

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This bibliography was compiled by Aden Kumler, Julia Schlozman and Nadia Marx.
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M. Golicyn, Notice de manuscrits, livres rares, et ouvrages sur les sciences, beaux-arts, etc.; tirée du cabinet de M. Galitzin. 1816. MS cited p. 11-12.
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Houghton Library. The Houghton Library Reports. Accessions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard College Library, 1954-1955. MS cited p. 11.
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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. 25, n. 81, pl. 34, 35.
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Millard Meiss, Andrea Mantegna As Illuminator; An Episode in Renaissance Art, Humanism, and Diplomacy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1957. MS cited p. 61, 62, 63, 93, n. 24, fig. 69.
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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 of manuscript’s contents, physical properties, and provenance.
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Houghton Library. The Houghton Library Reports. Accessions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard College Library, 1966-1968. MS cited p. 11.
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Paolo D'Ancona and E. Aeschlimann, The Art of Illumination; An Anthology of Manuscripts from the Sixth to the Sixteenth Century. London: Phaidon; [distributed by F.A. Praeger, New York, 1969. MS cited p. 230, n. 132.
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H.P. Kraus, In Retrospect: A Catalogue of 100 Outstanding Manuscripts Sold in the Last Four Decades by H.P. Kraus. New York: Kraus, 1978. MS cited p. 194-95, n. 77.
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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 p. 70, 129, n. 34.
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Lilian Armstrong, “Opus Petri: Renaissance Illuminated Books from Venice and Rome,” Viator 21 (1990), p. 385-412. MS cited p. 397-400, 401-411.
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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 219, f. 8 reproduced as fig. 4.
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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. 17.
A brief description that provides bibliography and a list of the manuscript’s contents. HOLLIS