Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
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This bibliography was compiled by Aden Kumler, Julia Schlozman, Nadia Marx and William Stoneman.
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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. 33, no. 119 and pl. 63 (reproducing f. 5).
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Brief description of manuscript described as: “reflect[ing] the style and technique of Paul Bourdichon.”

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. 274.
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Brief description of manuscript.

François Avril. Review of Roger S. Wieck, Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, 1350-1525, in the Houghton LibraryBulletin du Bibliophile 1977, 365-369.  MS Cited p. 366.  HOLLIS

John Plummer and Gregory Clark, The Last Flowering: French Painting in Manuscripts, 1420-1530: from American Collections. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1982. MS cited p. 100-101, n. 128, fig. 128a &128b.
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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 no. 21 and pl. (reproducing f. 36v).
HOLLIS
Description of manuscript and review of secondary literature on the Master of Claude de France to whom this manuscript is attributed.

Roger S. Wieck, “French Illuminated manuscripts in the Houghton Library: Recent Discoveries and Attributions,” Harvard Library Bulletin 31.2 (1983), p. 188–198. MS cited p. 197, fig. 10.
Very brief mention in a listing of the Library’s holdings of French illumination. Available online (Link). HOLLIS

Lilian M. C. Randall and Judith Oliver. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, II. Baltimore: Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1989. MS cited n. 208.
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Jenny Stratford and Catherine Reynolds, “The Foyle Breviary and Hours of John, Duke of Bedford, in the British Library,” in Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts, ed. Kathryn A. Smith and Carol H. Krinsky.  London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2007, pp. 345-371.  MS cited p. 351, n. 31. 
Cited in a list of manuscripts owned by Henry Harvey Frost (1873-1969).
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Roger S. Wieck with Cynthia J. Brown. Das Gebetbuch der Claude de France [The Prayer Book of Claude de France] Ms. M. 1166, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Luzern: Quaternio Verlag, 2010. HOLLIS

Roger S. Wieck, “The Prayer Book of Claude de France”, in The Medieval Book:  Glosses from Friends & Colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. ‘t Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 183-193.  HOLLIS
MS cited p. 193 n. 1.  Wieck’s description of the style of the Master of Claude de France in his 1983 Houghton Library catalogue is revisited in light of other works now attributed to this artist.

Jeffrey Hamburger.  No. 426, in “Bulletin Codicologique 2010, 2,” in Scriptorium 64.2 (2010).   MS cited pp. 188*-189*.  HOLLIS
Study of Wieck with Brown (2010).