Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 613
This bibliography was compiled by Aden Kumler, Julia Schlozman, Nadia Marx and William Stoneman.
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HOLLIS and Digital Images
The correct order of the leaves is ff. 1, 3, 5, 6, 4, 2 with single leaves missing after ff. 1 and 4. F.1 begins in Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, XI, i, 48 and f. 6 ends in XI, I, 134.
Ff. 7 and 8 contain portions of two different unidentified texts; f. 7 deals with the calendar and the number of days in the month; f. 8 is theological and includes quotations from Jerome and John with references to Gehenna.
Other leaves of this manuscript are known:
6 in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 29410/2 (formerly 29051(b));
2 in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 14938;
4 in New York, Columbia University, MS Plimpton 127 (formerly Weinheim, Sammlung Ernst Fischer, s.n.)
32 in Regensberg, Staatliche Bibliothek, Frag s.n.
Guglielmo Libri sale. Sotheby’s, London, 28 March 1859, part of lot no. 1111 and pls. XXV (reproducing part of f. 7) and XXIX.
Heinrich Schenkl. Bibliotheca patrum Latinorum Britannica. Vienna: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1890-1908. HOLLIS MS cited in Bd. 127 (1892).
MS, then in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, cited in part 5 (p. 63) as no. 2056.
W. M. Lindsay. Notae Latinae: An Account of Abbreviations in Latin MSs of the Early Minuscule period (c. 700-850). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915. MS cited p. 492. HOLLIS
MS cited in a “List of MSS Used” from its sister leaves formerly in the Fischer collection in Weinheim.
H[enri] O[mont]. “Fragment d’un manuscript anglo-saxon des Étymolgies d’Isidore de Sévile,” Bibliothèque de l’Ecole de Chartres 91 (1930), 405 n. 1. HOLLIS
Short citation of the former Fischer fragments used in Lindsay’s edition of Isidore as perhaps analogous to Paris, Bibliothéque national MS latin 4871.
E. A. Lowe. Codices Latini Antiquiores. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1971. MS cited as no. 144. HOLLIS
MS first cited in vol. II (1935, 2nd ed. 1972, p. 8) and vols. IX (1966, p. 28), XI (1959, p. 22) and Supplement (1971, p. 20) as locations changed and as more related leaves were discovered.
Bernhard Bischoff. Die südostdeutschen Schreibschulen und Bibliotheken in der Karolingerzeit. Leipzig: Harrasowitz, 1940-1980. MS cited I, 257 and II, 246-247. HOLLIS
MS cited under its Phillipps number 20,688, ff. 1-8 and ascribed to St. Emmeram in the diocese of Regensberg.
Sir Thomas Phillips sale. Sotheby’s, London. 30 November 1971, lot no. 485 and pl. 3 (reproducing f. 1v).
MS sold to “Marsden-Smedley.”
Hubert Mordek. Kirchenrecht und Reform im Frankenreich: Die Collectio vetus Gallica, die älteste systematische Kanonessammlung des fränkischen Gallien: Studien und Edition. Beiträge zur Geschichte und Quellenkunde des Mittelalters 1. Berlin: 1975. MS cited 282. HOLLIS
MS cited by its Munich shelf mark.
Sir Thomas Phillipps sale. Sotheby’s, London, 30 November 1976, lot no. 852 and pl. 2 (reproducing ff. 1 & 5).
MS sold to the English bookseller Albi Rosenthal.
The Houghton Library Report of Accessions, Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1980. MS cited on p. 1. HOLLIS
A brief description without call number in a report of annual accessions.
Roger E. Reynolds, “Unity and Diversity in Carolingian Canon Law Collections: The Case of the Collectio Hibernensis and Its Derivatives,” in Uta-Renate Blumenthal, ed., Carolingian Essays: Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in Early Christian Studies, pp. 99-135. Washington, D.C.: 1983. MS cited 104. HOLLIS
MS cited by its Munich shelf mark and citing Mordek’s speculation that the manuscript contains “clear indicia of Irish origins.”
Bernhard Bischoff and Virginia Brown. “Addenda to Codices Latini Antiquiores,” Mediaeval Studies 47 (1985), 363. HOLLIS
MS cited by its present shelf mark and noting Houghton Library as the current location of these Phillipps leaves.
Sigrid Krämer. Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters. Munich: Beck, 1989-1990. MS cited II, 678. HOLLIS
MS cited under its Phillipps number (from the 1976 Phillipps Sotheby’s sale) and from the Benedictines of St. Emmeram.
Lotte Kéry. Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140): A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1999. MS cited p. 74. HOLLIS
MS cited by the former Munich shelf mark from CLA references and described as a fragment of the Collectio Hibernensis and by the new Munich shelf mark from Reynolds.
Bernhard Bischoff. Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998- . MS cited II (2004, Laon-Paderborn), 289-290. HOLLIS
MS cited as part of no. 3458 and described as “Irischer Schreiber auf dem Festland(?), , VIII/IX Jh.” Other parts are in Munich, New York and Regensberg.
Jorge Juan Fernandez Sangrador. “Textos patristicos en la coleccion de manuscritos latinos antiguos de The Houghton Library (The Harvard College Library,” Helmantica 61 (2010), 259-278 at p. 276. HOLLIS
Brief derivative description.
