Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 232

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This bibliography was compiled by Aden Kumler, Julia Schlozman, Nadia Marx, Johanna Rodda and William Stoneman.
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HOLLIS Record (Link)

Two Thousand Years of Calligraphy.  MS cited as no. 105.

Ambrose Heal, English Writing Masters.  London, 1931. HOLLIS

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. 36, n. 135, pl. 68.
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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. 272.
Brief description of manuscript’s contents, physical properties, and provenance.
HOLLIS

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.
Accessible through Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, a “subscribers only” database.  To search the database, connect to: Iter Italicum and search by Houghton Library, Typographic Collection.  (LinkHOLLIS

Anthony G. Petti, English Literary Hands from Chaucer to Dryden.  Cambridge, 1977. HOLLIS

A.S. Osley, ed., Scribes and Sources, Handbook of the Chancery Hand in the Sixteenth Century, With an Account of John de Beauchesne by Berthold Wolpe.  Boston, 1980.  MS cited pp. 227-240. HOLLIS

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. 54-55 as no. 27.  HOLLIS 
A full description of the MS in this exhibition catalogue.