Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 479

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This bibliography was compiled by Justin Stover and Joshua O’Driscoll.
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Libraire ancienne Hopeli, Livres anciens et modernes, manuscripts…de coronelli. Sale catalogue, 1954. MS designated no. 26, pp. 20-22, pl. 13-14.
Full description of contents, with incipits and explicits (pp. 20-21), and notes on the texts (p. 22). Plates XIII and XIV reproduce unidentified folios. HOLLIS.

The Houghton Library Report of Accessions For the Year 1959-1960. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library, 1960. MS cited p. 1.
Mentions illustrations accompanying the text of Aesop. 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. 280-281.
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. 237.
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

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. 135, with fig. 85 reproducing f. 42r.
Brief description of the manuscript’s physical properties, miniatures, provenance, and bibliography. HOLLIS

Lilian M. C. Randall, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. MS cited vol. 2, p. 121.
Cited for comparison with Baltimore, Walters, MS W. 311. HOLLIS