Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 443
This bibliography was compiled by Aden Kumler, Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll and William Stoneman.
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HOLLIS Record (Link) and Digital Images (Link)
Bernard Quaritch, Facsimiles of Choice Examples Selected from Illuminated Manuscripts. London, 1892. MS cited p. 14, pls. 208-12.
British Museum, Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts & Printed Books Bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfred H. Huth. London: Printed for the Trustees, 1912. MS cited p. 17.
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Exposition Internationale, Section d’art flamand ancien. Bruxelles: Imp. Veuve Monnom, 1930. MS cited v. IV, pp.16-17, no. 33.
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Exposition Internationale, Trésor de l’art flamanad du moyen âge au XVIIIme siècle. Mémorial de l’Exposition d’art flamand à Anvers, 1930. Paris: G. van Oest, 1932. MS cited v. II, p. 47, pl. LXV, fig. 91.
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G. Hulin de Loo, “La vignette chez les enlumineurs gantois entre 1470 et 1500,” Académie Royale de Belgique. Bulletin de la Classe des Beaux-Arts XXI (1939), 180f.
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Otto Pächt, The Master of Mary of Burgundy. London: Faber and Faber, 1948. MS cited pp. 71-72, no. 31.
Listed under “Doubtful Attributions.” A brief discussion of the miniatures with an emphasis on style and other potential attributions. HOLLIS
Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.) and Dorothy Miner, Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, January 27–March 13. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1949. MS cited pp. 74-75, no. 204, pl. LXXVII.
A description of the manuscript with a discussion of its miniatures and its possible connections with Juana La Loca and the Master of Mary of Burgundy. HOLLIS
Erwin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting, Its Origin and Character. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. MS cited p. 128, n. 12.
Brief mention in a footnote concerning iconography associated with St. Barbara. HOLLIS
Houghton Library. The Houghton Library Reports. Accessions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard College Library, 1957/58. MS cited pp. 1-3; and 1964/66. MS cited p. 3. Brief mention in a list of manuscript acquisitions from that year. HOLLIS
P. Wescher, “Beiträge zu Sanders und Simon Bening und Gerard Horenbout,” Festschrift Friedrich Winkler, ed. Hans Möhle. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1959. MS cited pp. 128-30, figs. 1-2.
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Seymour de Ricci, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-1940. (Reprint 1961). MS cited v. I, p. 1056, no. 3; v. II, p. 1205, no. 6; pp. 2306-2307.
Brief descriptions of the then separated manuscripts. An extensive discussion of provenance on p. 1056. HOLLIS
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. 278.
A brief description of the manuscript. HOLLIS
Houghton Library. The Houghton Library Reports. Accessions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard College Library, 1964/66. MS cited pp. 3-4. Brief mention in a list of manuscript acquisitions from that year. HOLLIS
Houghton Library, The Houghton Library 1942–1967: A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library [distributed by Harvard University Press], 1967. MS cited pl. opposite p. 187.
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Edith Warren Hoffman, “Simon Marmion Re-Considered,” Scriptorium XXIII (1969), 245. Wrongly identified as “MS 204.”
Brief citation in a list of manuscripts from Simon Marmion’s late period. HOLLIS
G.I. Lieftinck, Boekverluchters uit de Omgeving van Maria van Bourgondie, c. 1475-1485. Brussels: Paleis der Academiën, 1969. MS cited pp. 9, 56, 88, 170.
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Edith Warren Hoffman, “Simon Marmion or ‘The Master of the Altarpiece of Saint-Bertin’: A Problem in Attribution,” Scriptorium XXVII (1973), p. 273. Wrongly identified as “MS 204.”
Brief citation in a list of manuscripts from Simon Marmion’s late period. HOLLIS
Anne H. van Buren, “The Master of Mary of Burgundy and His Colleagues: The State of Research and Questions of Methods,” Zeitschrift fűr Kunstgeschichte XXXVIII (1975), 286-309. MS cited pp. 306, 307.
A brief mention of the manuscript as one meriting further study. Available online (Link). HOLLIS
Bijlokemusem, Gent Duizend Jaar Kunst en Cultuur, v. II. Boekdrukkunst, Bokdanden, Borduurkunst, Edelsmeedkunst, Miniatuurkunst. Ghent: 1975. MS cited p. 385.
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Sandra Hindman, “The Case of Simon Marmion: Attributions & Documents,” Zeitschrift fűr Kunstgeschichte XL (1977), 185-204. MS cited p. 187, n. 8 (wrongly identified as “MS Typ 442.1”), 204.
Available online (Link). HOLLIS
Bulletin Codicologique, in Scriptorium 31 (1977). MS cited p. 20, no. 96.
A brief mention in a German summary of Anne van Buren (1975). HOLLIS
George Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries. Amsterdam: B. M. Israel, 1987. MS cited pp. 131, 141, 149.
Brief citations in lists of manuscripts associated with various Flemish masters. HOLLIS
P.M. de Winter, “A Book of Hours of Queen Isabel la Católica,” Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXVII (1981). MS cited pp. 424 n. 16, 425 n. 30.
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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 pp. 50-51, 133-134, no. 24 with figs. reproducing ff. 108v and 171.
A thorough description and discussion of the manuscript with extensive notes on provenance, bibliography and miniatures. HOLLIS
Janet Backhouse and Thomas Kren, Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1983. MS cited pp. 31, 33-34, 38, 38 n. 13, 39 n. 30
A discussion of the manuscript emphasizing stylistic relationships with other manuscripts associated with Simon Marmion. HOLLIS
Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003. MS cited no. 32, pp. 121-125, 164-165, 168-178.
An extensive discussion of the manuscript’s miniatures, attributing several to the “Master of the Houghton Miniatures,” so named after MS Typ 443. HOLLIS
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 no. 24.
A brief description that provides bibliography and a list of the manuscript’s contents. Also a discussion summarizing recent scholarship on the manuscript. HOLLIS
Lieve De Kesel, “Heritage and Innovation in Flemish Book Illumination at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century: Framing the Frames from Simon Marmion to Gerard David” in Hanno Wijsman with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, eds., Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair: Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries, Burgundica 15 (Brepols: Turnhout, 2010), pp. 93-130.
On pp. 112-117 in a section entitled “Simon Marmion and the Master of the Houghton Miniatures” De Kesel discusses the distinctive frames on their miniatures and refers to the Emerson-White Hours and reproduces details from f. 100 of this MS.
Anna De Floriani. “Un livre d’heures flammand à Milan [Biblioteca Trivulziana MS 473],” Art de l’enluminure 36 (2011), 42-69. MS cited p. 49 with reproductions of ff. 99v, 100 and 157 (with typographical error in call number). HOLLIS
Brief citation of MS images as analogues for similar compositions in the Trivulziana manuscript.
Anne Margreet W. As-Vijvers. Re-Making the Margins: The Master of the David Scenes and Flemish Manuscript Painting around 1500. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. MS cited pp. 148, 213, 219, 260-161, 267, 290, 301, 340, 501 and 509.
