Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Widener 2
This bibliography was compiled by Roger Wieck, Laura Light, Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll and William Stoneman.
Please be advised that some links may require Harvard ID and PIN.
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).”
