Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Riant 35

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P. Riant. “Inventaire sommaire des manuscripts relatifs à l’histoire et à la géographie de l’Orient Latin: Additions et corrections.” Archives de l’Orient Latin II (Paris: E. Leroux, 1881-4), 512. MS cited p. 512.
Listed as “Jacobus Vitriacensis, Sermones ad status” in an inventory of manuscripts relating to
the Latin Orient owned by Riant. Available online (Link). HOLLIS

 

L. de Germon et L. Polain. Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de feu M. le Comte RiantParis: A Picard, 1896-99. MS cited vol. II, part I, p. LI-LII, no. 35.
Description of the contents, with incipits and explicit, as well as brief notes on the dating, binding, and physical properties of the manuscript. Available online (Link). HOLLIS

 

Alfred L. L. Dennis. “Special Collections in American Libraries: The Oriental Collection of Count Paul Riant Now in the Library of Harvard University.” Library Journal 28 (1903). 817-820. MS cited p. 819.
Mentioned, without shelfmark, in a description of the Riant collection. HOLLIS

 

C. H. Haskins. “The University of Paris in the Sermons of the Thirteenth Century.” American Historical Review 10.1 (1904), 1-27. MS cited p. 4, n. 2.
Cited as a source for thirteenth-century university life. Available online at JSTOR (Link). HOLLIS

 

T. F. Crane. “Medieval Sermon Books and Stories and Their Study Since 1888.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 56.5 (1917), 402, n. 19.  [In File]                 
Mentions manuscript in discussing Haskins 1904. Available online at JSTOR (Link). 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. (Reprint 1961). MS cited vol. 1, p. 1003.
Brief description, containing less information than the Riant catalogue, with an additional note on the provenance. HOLLIS

 

Jean Longère. “Quatre sermons ad canonicos de Jacques de Vitry.” Recherches augustiniennes 23 (1988), 151-212. MS cited p. 152.
Contains an edition of four sermons with manuscript listed but not collated. HOLLIS

 

Jean Longère. “Un sermon de Jacques de Vitry († 1240) <<Ad prelatos et sacerdotes>>.” In C. Bourlet and A. Darfour, eds. L’ecrit dans la société médiévale: Divers aspects de sa practique du XIe au XVe siècle (Paris: Editions du C. N. R. S., 1991), 47-60. MS cited p. 48-49 and passim.
Contains an edition of one sermon, Ad prelatos et sacerdotes, with manuscript mentioned (pp.
48-49) and collated with sigle Cg (pp. 50-60). HOLLIS

 

U. F. Hinnebusch. “The Reputed ‘Book III’ of Historia Hierosolimitana abbreviata.” Scriptorium 51.1 (1997), 158-164. MS cited p. 160. 
Cited in a list of manuscripts containing the sermons of Jacques de Vitry. HOLLIS