Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Riant 88
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
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 under “Johannes Hildesheimensis, Historia III regum” in an inventory of manuscripts relating to the Latin Orient owned by Riant.
Available online (Link). HOLLIS
Catalog der Bibliothek des ehem. Carthäuserklosters Buxheim: aus dem Bestize seiner Erlaucht des Herrn Hugo von Waldbott-Bessenhiem … am 20. September 1883 … durch den Antiquar Carl Fr. Mayer. Munich: W. Behren, 1883. MS cites as no. 2496 (p. 134). HOLLIS
MS listing in this auction sale catalogue.
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. LXII-LXIII, no. 88.
Brief description and discussion 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, p. 1009.
Brief description, containing much of the same information as in the Riant catalogue, with two incipits, and a brief note on provenance. HOLLIS
Ugo Monneret de Villard. Le leggende orientali sui magi evangelici, Studi e testi 163 (Città del Vaticano : Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1952). MS cited 182, n. 1.
Brief mention in footnote, along with other manuscripts, as a source for Johannes de Hildesheim’s Gesta trium regum magorum. 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 and two incipits, 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
Bettina Wagner. Die “Epistola presbiteri Johannis” lateinisch und deutsch: Überlieferung, Textgeschichte, Rezeption und Übertragungen im Mittelalter. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2000. MS cited pp. 39-40. HOLLIS
Full MS description and classification as manuscript of Redaktion C. The sigla Cm1 is used for this MS throughout the book.
Charterhouse Buxheim and Its Library (website), Yale University, 2005.
Very brief description with information on provenance. Internet link
Sigrid Krämer. Scriptores codicum medii aevi: Datenbank von Schreiben und Besitzern mittelalterlicher Handschriften [electronic resource], (Augsburg: Dr. Erwin Rauner Verlag, 2001-2007),
Very brief mention with respect to Johannes Wespach, provides bibliography.
Available online (Link). HOLLIS
