Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 555
This bibliography was compiled by Aden Kumler, Julia Schlozman, Nadia Marx and William Stoneman.
Please be advised that some links may require Harvard ID and PIN.
HOLLIS Record (Link) and Digital Images (Link)
M. Golicyn, Notice de manuscrits, livres rares, et ouvrages sur les sciences, beaux-arts, etc.; tirée du cabinet de M. Galitzin. 1816. MS cited p. 5-6.
HOLLIS
L. Delisle, Recherches sur la librarie de Charles V, I. Paris: H. Champion, 1907. MS cited p. 66.
Full text available online (Link). HOLLIS
Houghton Library. The Houghton Library Reports. Accessions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard College Library, 1966-68. MS cited p. 9-10.
HOLLIS
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 Typ 2-3, 136-137, n. 1.
HOLLIS
François Avril, “Un chef-d’oeuvre de l’enluminure sous le règne de Jean le Bon: La Bible Moralisée, manuscrit français 167 de la Bibliothèque nationale,” Fondation Eugène Piot, monuments et mémoire publiés par L’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 58 (1972). MS cited p. 98, n. 1.
HOLLIS
François Avril, “La Bible historiale de Charles V,” in The Marks in the Fields: Essays on the Uses of Manuscripts, eds. Rodney G. Dennis and Elizabeth A. Falsey. Cambridge, Mass: Houghton Library, 1992.
HOLLIS
Roger S. Wieck, “French Illuminated manuscripts in the Houghton Library: Recent Discoveries and Attributions,” Harvard Library Bulletin 31.2 (1983), pp. 188–198. MS cited p. 188, fig. 1 (reproducing vol. I, f. 274).
Available online (Link). HOLLIS
Aden Kumler, “Faire translater, faire historier: Charles V’s Bible Historiale and the Visual Rhetoric of Vernacular Sapience,” Studies in Iconography 29 (2008), 90-135. MS cited throughout with numerous reproductions.
An extensive study of this MS and its iconographical program. HOLLIS
Elizabeth Morrison in Elizabeth Morrison and Anne D. Hedeman, Imaging the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. MS cited p. 168, n. 5.
The set of seven Creation scenes in the Houghton manuscript is very similar to the set in Getty Museum MS 1. HOLLIS
