Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Riant 57

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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 “Fr. Di Assisio, Oratio contra Turcas, 1480” 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 Riant.  Paris: A Picard, 1896-99. MS cited in v. II, part I, p. LVI, no. 57.
Brief description of manuscript’s contents with incipits, as well as notes on the physical properties, the approximate date, and the author of the manuscript                                                                                     Available online (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. 1006.
Brief description, as well as an additional brief note on provenance. HOLLIS                                           

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries. London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1963–97. MS cited in v. V, p. 230.
Accessible through Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, a “subscribers only” database.  To search the database, connect to: Iter Italicum and search by Houghton Library, Riant Collection.  (LinkHOLLIS

 

Dennis Dutschke. “Un altro manoscrito dei sonetti ‘alla valigia’ di Maestro Antonio da Ferrara.” Studi e problemi di critica testuale 24 (1982), 7-14. MS cited p. 7. 

Cited in a list of manuscripts of Italian origin from the Riant collection. HOLLIS