Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 278

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

Hermann Degering, “Ein Calendarium Pugillare mit Computus aus dem Jahr 1294,” Buch und Bucheinband…zum Geburtstage von Hans Loubier.  Leipzig, 1923.  MS cited pp. 77-88.

S.J.P. Van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts and Printed Books.  Oxford, 1952.  MS cited nos. 94, 95, 96.

H.M. Nixon, Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs of Bookbindings.  London, 1956.  MS cited no. 3.  HOLLIS

The History of Bookbinding, 525-1950, A.D.  Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1957.  MS was no. 112A in this exhibition.  HOLLIS
A description of how the MS functions.

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. 275.
HOLLIS
Brief description.

Sandra Hindman.  “Authors, Artists, and Audience,” in Sandra Hindman and James Douglas Farquhar, eds.  Pen to Press: Illustrated Manuscripts and Printed Books in the First Century of Printing, pp. 157-211.  College Park, Maryland: University of Maryland, 1977.  MS cited p. 203, n. 8.  HOLLIS
MS cited as one of two more examples of reference calendars.

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. 20-21 as no. 10 with plates of binding and computistic calendar for January (f. 2).  HOLLIS 
A full description of the MS in this exhibition catalogue.

Consuelo Dutschke. Guide to the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library.  San Marino: 1989.  MS cited II, 732. HOLLIS
MS included in a list of examples of other folding calendars.

J. P. Gumbert, “Über Faltbücher, vornehmlich Almanache,” in Rationalisierung der Buchherstellung im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit.  Elementa diplomatica 2. Marburg an der Lahn: Institut für Historische Hilfswissenschaften, 1994. MS cited p. 112, n. 6 and p. 114, n. 35. HOLLIS
MS cited as one of four exemplars of the almanach of Petrus of Dacia.