Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Riant 90
This bibliography was compiled by Julia Schlozman, Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll, Shane Bobrycki, William Stoneman and Balázs J. Nemes.
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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 in v. II, part I, p. LXIII-LXIV, no. 90.
Brief description of the manuscript’s contents with, 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. 1010.
Brief description, containing much of the same information as in the Riant catalogue, with a brief note on provenance. HOLLIS
Karl Hermann May. “Hessen in Handschriften der Vereinigten Staaten und von Kanada.” Jahrbuch der Hessischen kirchengeschichtlichen Vereinigung 4 (1953), 112-127. MS cited p. 121.
Very brief note on provenance. HOLLIS
H. Rüthing. “Jean Hagen de Indagine”, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystique, doctrine et histoire, 8 (Paris 1973), 543-552 at p. 544. HOLLIS
Dieter Mertens. “Hagen, Johannes.” Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1978-. MS cited p. 394.
Brief mention as a source for exegetical and monastic texts. HOLLIS
Bettina Wagner. Die “Epistola presbiteri Johannis” lateinisch und deutsch: Überlieferung, Textgeschichte, Rezeption und Übertragungen im Mittelalter. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2000. MS cited p. 40. HOLLIS
Full MS description and classification as manuscript of Hildesheimer Fassung. The sigla Cm2 is used for this MS throughout the book.
Laurence Moulinier, ed. Beate Hildegardis Cause et Cure. Berlin: Akademie verlag, 2003. MS cited p. XXVII. HOLLIS
Stephen M. Metzger. “The Manuscripts of Writings by Ioannes Hagen de Indagine, O. Cart." Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 50 (2008), pp. 175-256, at p. 190. HOLLIS
(Where he gives a brief description of the MS as the 21st in a list of manuscripts of writings by the Carthusian monk Ioannes Hagen (d. 1475-76), whom he describes as one of the most prolific (but underpublished) authors of the later Middle Ages).
Balázs J. Nemes. “Gertrude of Helfta’s Legatus divinae pietatis: Text Production and Authorship in the Revelatory Literature of Helfta,” in Elisabeth A. Andersen and Henrike Lähnemann, eds., Companion to Northern German Mysticism. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.
Nemes suggests that this MS may have belonged to the Carthusians of Erfurt.