Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 700

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

Virginia Brown, “A Second New List of Beneventan Manuscripts” (II), Medieval Studies, 50 (1988), 584-625. MS cited p. 593.
HOLLIS
Brief description.

Rodney G. Dennis.  “A Preliminary Checklist of Other Twelfth-Century Manuscripts in the Houghton Library,” pp. 107-109 in Laura Light, The Bible in the Twelfth century: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at the Houghton Library.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1988.  MS cited p. 108.  HOLLIS
MS cited in this checklist with minimal information.

Bernard Quaritch, Bookhands of the Middle Ages, Part IV: Beneventan Script. Catalogue 1128. London: B. Quaritch, 1990.   MS cited in no. 16.
A description of a leaf now in the Schøyen collection (MS 60) which originally joined the Houghton leaf “to form the central bifolium of a quire.”  The manuscript is “assigned to Montecassino on paleographic grounds.”

Bibliografia dei manoscritti in scrittura beneventana. (Website). Accessed 4 October 2012.
Cited in a list of Beneventan manuscripts. Internet link.