Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Typ 703
This bibliography was compiled by Aden Kumler, Nadia Marx and William Stoneman.
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HOLLIS Record (Link)
Sotheby and Co. Thomas Bateman sale. London: 25 May 1893. MS cited as lot no. 233.
A full description of the MS in this auction catalogue.
Sotheby and Co. Richard Bennett (William Morris) sale. London: 5 December 1898. MS cited as lot no. 148.
A full description of the MS in this auction catalogue.
Sotheby and Co. Laurence Hodson sale. London: 3 December 1906. MS cited as lot no. 28.
A full description of the MS in this auction catalogue.
Sotheby and Co. Chester Beatty sale. 24 June 1969. London: 24 June 1969. MS cited as lot no. 45 and pl. 11 (reproducing ff. 46v, 7 and 85 (details)).
A full description of the MS in this auction catalogue.
A Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Philip Hofer Bequest in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts. Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1988. MS cited pp. 2 and 22. HOLLIS
A passing reference of this MS as “another example of Northern European Romanesque book production” perhaps the last important early manuscript acquired by Philip Hofer and as a second manuscript from the library of William Morris included in the Hofer bequest.
Laura Light, The Bible in the Twelfth Century: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at the Houghton Library. Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1988. MS cited p. 43-45, n. 15, pl. 10.
HOLLIS
Rodney G. Dennis, “The World of Madness and the World of Dreams: Charles Sumner and Philip Hofer as Collectors of Early Manuscripts,” Gazette of the Grolier Club, new series 42 (1990), 17-37. Typ 703 cited p. 33 without shelfmark.
Brief allusion to the manuscript as a reflection of the acquisition efforts of the donor to Harvard.
HOLLIS
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. 273. HOLLIS
Brief derivative description.
