Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Widener 2

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This bibliography was compiled by Roger Wieck, Laura Light, Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll and William Stoneman.
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HOLLIS Record (Link)

Bernard Quaritch Ltd., Catalogue 211. London, 1902.  MS cited no. 161.

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.
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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. (Reprint 1961). MS cited p. 1020.
Brief description. HOLLIS

Kathleen Scott, The Mirroure of the World: MS Bodley 283 (England, c. 1470-1480). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. MS cited p. 43, n.1.
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Kathleen Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390-1490. London: H. Miller, 1996. MS cited no. 128; v. I, pp. 41, 50, 57, 62,63, 70 n. 5, 78 nn. 5, 6; v. II, pp. 267, 329, 330, 342, 343, 367, 454, 455, 456, 457.
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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. 94, n. 46 with pl. reproducing f. 56
A brief description of the manuscript with a discussion focusing on the miniatures and their illuminator. HOLLIS

William P. Stoneman, Of Current Interest: Recent Research on Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Hougton Library. Cambridge: Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library, 2006. MS cited p. 43, n. 23.
A brief description that provides bibliography and a list of the manuscript’s contents. HOLLIS

Jonathan Alexander, James  H. Marrow and Lucy Freeman Sandler. The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library. New York: New York Public Library, 2005. MS cited no. 35.
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Paul Binski and Patrick Zutshi with the collaboration of Stella Panyotova.  Western Illuminated Manuscripts: A Catalogue of the Collection in the Cambridge University Library. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.  MS cited p. 247. HOLLIS
MS cited in a description of Cambridge University Library MS Kk. 2.7 (no. 268), an English Psalter Hours, use of Sarum, where the “border of the miniature on f. 9” [Annunciation for Obsecro te and reproduced in color as Pl. XC] is described as “close to borders by Artist A in Harvard University, Houghton Library MS Widener 2 (Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts, II, p. 340, no. 128).”