Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Riant 36
This bibliography was compiled by Julia Schlozman, Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll and William Stoneman.
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HOLLIS
L. de Germon et L. Polain. Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de feu M. le Comte Riant. Paris: A Picard, 1896-99. MS cited vol. II, part I, p. LII, no. 36.
Brief description containing a very incomplete list of contents with folio numbers and two incipits (ff. 2v, 6r), as well as brief notes on the dating and the 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
Mason Hammond. “A Description of a Manuscript of the Opuscula of St. Jerome.” Unpublished MS. (Cambridge, 1931; now Houghton MS Lat. 315(5 and 6)).
Contains description and the most complete index of contents. HOLLIS
Mason Hammond. “Notes on Some Poems of Hildebert in a Harvard Manuscript, MS Riant 36.” Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 7.4 (1932), 530-539. MS cited throughout.
Lengthy description, covering most aspects of the manuscript (p. 530), with an in-depth discussion of ff. 80v-82r (pp.530-537), containing some works of Hildebert, containing collation of the manuscript with other manuscripts and printed editions, as well as a transcription of an unedited poem (ff.80v-81r, Inc: Tollimur e medio), and further discussion of the contents of ff. 82r-86v (pp. 537-539). Reproduces ff.80v-81r (p. 530). Available online at JSTOR (Link). HOLLIS
Revue d’histoire ecclesiastique 29 (1933), 530.
Summary in French of Hammond 1932. HOLLIS
Richard Newald. “Nachleben der Antike.” Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft 250 (1935). MS cited p. 53.
Summary in German of Hammond 1932. HOLLIS
Jahresbericht über die Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiete der germanischen Philologie 54 (1935), MS cited p. 216.
Summary in German of Hammond 1932. 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. 1004.
Brief description, without incipits, but containing more information than the Riant catalogue, with additional notes on the provenance. HOLLIS
A. Wilmart. “Le florilège de Saint-Gatien. Contribution à l’étude des poèmes d’Hildebert et de Marbode.” Revue bénédictine 48 (1936), 3-40, 147-181, 235-258. MS cited p. 160, n. 1.
Cited, with brief description, in a discussion of the works of Hildebert (ff. 80v-82v). HOLLIS
Paul Lehmann. “Skandinavische Reisefrüchte.” Nordisk tidskrift för bok-och bibliotekväsen 25.3 (1938), 155-172. MS cited at 155-156
Cited for comparison with Kopenhagen Univ.-Bibliothek MS Fabricius 81. HOLLIS
The Houghton Library Report of Accessions for the Year 1957-58. Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1958. MS cited on p. 3. HOLLIS
A brief description without call number in a report of annual accessions.
Raymond Klibansky. “Peter Abailard and Bernard of Clairvaux.” Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies 5 (1963), 1-27. MS cited at 3, n. 1.
Cited for a prophecy of the Hispana Sibylla it contains. HOLLIS
A. B. Scott. “The Poems of Hildebert of Le Mans.” Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies 6 (1968), 42-83. MS cited at p. 69.
Cited for its arrangement of Hildebert’s works. HOLLIS
Bernard Lambert. Biblioteca Hieronymiana Manuscripta: La Tradition Manuscrite des Oeuvres de Saint Jérôme. 4 vols. Instrumenta Patristica 4. ‘s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1969-1972. HOLLIS
MS cited in vol. 4, pp. 82 (no. 0), 240 (no. 309) and 247 (no. 332) in a list of manuscripts of Jerome’s works.
Laura Light. The Bible in the Twelfth Century: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at the Houghton Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1988. MS cited pp.76-77, no. 29.
Lengthy description, covering all aspects of the manuscript (p. 76-77), with particular attention paid to the script, the parchment, and the physical properties of the manuscript, in addition to comments on its historical and social context (pp. 77-78). 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. 274. HOLLIS
Brief derivative description.
