Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Riant 53

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P. Riant. “Inventaire sommaire des manuscripts relatifs à l’histoire et à la géographie de l’Orient Latin,” Archives de l’Orient Latin II (Paris: E. Leroux, 1881-4), 131-204. MS cited 202.
Listed as “Raccolta di documenti sull’ administrazione di Candia” 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 in v. II, part I, p. LV, no. 53.
Brief description of manuscript’s contents, as well as notes on the physical properties and approximate date of the manuscript.
Available online (Link). HOLLIS

 

Emilie Boer. Description of Greek MSS in the possession of Harvard University Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 1928. MS cited p. 3.                                                               
Brief description of manuscript’s contents. 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. 1005.
Brief description, containing much of the same information as in the Riant catalogue. HOLLIS

 

Vasileos Laourdas. “Κρητικα Παλαιογραφικά [Kretika Palaiographika]” Κρητικα  Χρονικά [Kretika Chronika] 4 (1950), 233-237. MS cited throughout.
Extensive discussion of the manuscript and its contents. HOLLIS

 

David Pingree. “The Library of George, Count of Corinth,” in Kurt Treu, ed. Studia codicologica (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1977), 351-362. MS cited p. 352.                                            
Cited as the source for Theodosius Corinthius’ will (f. 21). HOLLIS

 

“Bulletin codicologique,” in Scriptorium  33.1 (1979).  MS cited p. 74, no. 398.
The manuscript is cited briefly in a French summary of Pingree 1977. HOLLIS