Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Widener 1

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This bibliography was compiled by Roger Wieck and William Stoneman.
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Alfred.J. Horwood, Third Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. London: 1872.  MS cited Appendix, p. 255.  A brief description as one of the manuscript belonging to Sir John Lawson, Bart., of Brough Hall, Co. YorkHOLLIS

William George Henderson, Missale ad Usum Insignis Ecclesiae Eboracensis. Surtees Society Vols. 59-60. Durham: Surtees Society, 1874.  MS cited II, 358 as Manual of Sir John LawsonHOLLIS

William George Henderson, Manuale et Processionale ad Usum Insignis Ecclesiae Eboracensis. Surtees Society Vol. 63. Durham: Surtees Society, 1875. MS cited pp. xiv-xvi as “in the Library of Sir John Lawson, Bart., of Brough Hall, Catterick” and briefly described as one of four extant manuscriptsHOLLIS

A Catalogue of the More Important Books, Autographs and Manuscripts in the Library of George C. Thomas.  Philadelphia: Privately printed, 1907. MS cited pp. 38-39.  Brief description. HOLLIS

A. S. W. Rosenbach, A Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts of Harry Elkins Widener. Philadelphia: Privately printed, 1918. MS cited v. II, p. 65.Brief description. HOLLIS

Seymour de Ricci, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-1940.  MS cited p. 1020.  Brief description. 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 cited p. 137 with fig. 140 reproducing f.67v.  HOLLIS

Robert E. Lewis, N. F. Blake and A. S. G. Edwards, Index of Printed Middle English Prose. New York, Garland, 1985. MS cited as nos. 122, 313, 468 and 857HOLLIS

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse.  London: British Library, 2005.  MS cited no. 4204/11HOLLIS

Richard W. Pfaff.  The Liturgy in Medieval England: A History.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.  MS cited on pp. 453-454 as Use of York and dated 1403. 
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