Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Riant 80
This bibliography was compiled by Julia Schlozman, Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll and William Stoneman.
Please be advised that some links may require Harvard ID and PIN.
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, pp. LIX-LX, no. 80.
Brief description of manuscript’s contents with incipits, as well as notes on the physical properties and approximate date 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, pp. 1007-1008.
Brief description, containing much of the same information as in the Riant catalogue, as well as an additional brief note on provenance. HOLLIS
Karl Hermann May. “Hessen in Handschriften der Vereinigten Staaten und von Kanada,” in Jahrbuch der Hessischen kirchengeschichtlichen Vereinigung, bd. 4. Hugo Grün, ed. (Darmstadt, 1953) MS cited p. 125.
Very brief description with 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. (Link) HOLLIS
Alain de Lille, Textes Inédits. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1965. MS cited pp. 221-222.
A brief discussion of the manuscript, particularly concerning the texts of Alain de Lille, for which it gives incipits and folio numbers. 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. 2, p. 436 (no. 260) and vol. 3, p. 400 (no. 495) in lists of manuscripts of Jerome’s De viribus illustribus and De ortu et obitu sanctorum.
P. Glorieux. 
La Faculté des arts et ses maîtres au XIIIe siècle (Paris: J. Vrin, 1971). MS cited p. 72, no. 12u.
Brief citation for the text of the Hierarchia Alani. Provides incipit and lists other manuscripts containing that text. HOLLIS
John P. McCall. “Chaucer and the Pseudo-Origen De Maria Magdalena,” Speculum 46.3 (1971), 491-509. MS cited p. 507.
Brief citation as a source for the text of Pseudo Origen’s De Maria Magdalena.
Available online at JSTOR (Link). HOLLIS
Thomas Kaeppeli. Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi. Rome: S. Sabinae, 1975. MS cited in v. II, p. 289, no. 2014.
Brief citation for text of Humbertus Viennensis’ De praedicatione crucis. HOLLIS
James Hogg. “Buxheim Manuscripts in American Libraries.” In J. Hogg ed., Die Kartäuser und die Reformation, Analecta Cartusiana 108 (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1984), 222-236. MS cited p. 228.
Brief description, containing content list with folio numbers, as well as an additional brief note on provenance. HOLLIS
Sidrig Krämer. Handschriftenerbe des Deutschen Mittelalters. Munich: Beck, 1989. MS cited p. 133.
Very brief description. HOLLIS
James Brundage. “Humbert of Romans and the Legitimacy of Crusader Conquests,” in B. Z. Kedar, ed. The Horns of Hattīn (London: Variorum, 1992), 302-313. MS cited at p. 304, n. 8.
Mentioned briefly in footnote with reference to a text by Humbert. HOLLIS
Paul Needham. “The Library of Hilprand Brandenburg.” Bibliothek und Wissenschaft 29 (1996), 95-125. MS cited p. 106, no. 7.
Mentioned briefly in a preliminary checklist of the library of Hilprand von Brandenburg.
Available online at Digizeitschriften (Link). HOLLIS
Penny J. Cole. “Humbert of Romans and the Crusade.” In Marcus Bull and Norman Hously, eds. The Experience of Crusading: Western Approaches (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 157-174. MS cited p. 169.
Mentioned briefly regarding Humbertus Viennensis. HOLLIS
Charterhouse Buxheim and Its Library (website), Yale University, 2005.
Brief description of contents, physical properties, and a short bibliography. Internet link
Peraldus: A Collection of Bibliographic References to Medieval Manuscripts (website). Accessed 3 July 2007.
Very brief bibliography. Internet link
Sigrid Krämer. Scriptores codicum medii aevi: Datenbank von Schreiben und Besitzern mittelalterlicher Handschriften [electronic resource], (Augsburg: Dr. Erwin Rauner Verlag, 2001-2007).
Included in a listing of the manuscripts of Hilbrand von Brandenburg. Provides bibliography. Available online (Link). 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.
