HOLLIS ClassicDigital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Houghton Library MSS Richardson
William King Richardson (1859-1951), Class of 1880, graduated summa cum laude and two years later obtained a double first at Balliol College, Oxford. His library was begun at the Lord Amherst of Hackney sale in 1908; for more than forty years Richardson had the opportunity and the means to collect printed books and manuscripts of considerable distinction. His bequest of the collection constitutes one of the most important accessions ever received by Harvard College Library. The forty-nine manuscripts in the collection range from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.
Richardson was also the donor of four other medieval manuscripts now in the Houghton Library: MS Lat 186, MS Typ 37, MS Typ 40, and MS Typ 41.
Richardson letters to his mother from Oxford, dated 1881-1884, are MS Richardson 51; his letters to his uncle, Roland Lincoln, from Oxford, dated 1880-1884, are MS Am 2006; his travel dairies in various European cities dated 1880-1890 are MS Am 2042.
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Bible in Latin |
ca. 1250 |
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Gospel of John with glossa ordinaria |
ca. 1175-1200 |
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New Testament (Wycliffe translation) |
ca. 1400 |
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Psalter |
ca. 1400 |
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Book of hours (use of Sarum) |
ca. 1400 |
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Book of hours (use of Paris) |
ca. 1435 |
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Book of hours (use of Troyes and Sens) |
ca. 1470 |
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Book of hours (use of Rome) |
ca. 1505 |
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Book of hours (use of Rome) |
ca. 1505 |
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Book of hours (use of Paris) |
ca. 1515 |
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Nocturnum feriale |
ca. 1480 |
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Pseudo-Dionysius |
Celestial Hierarchies and other texts |
1436 |
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Rufinus |
Ecclesiastical History |
1468 |
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Augustine |
Contra Faustum |
ca. 1175-1200 |
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Lucian |
Toxaris |
1545-1547 |
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Helianus; Onosander |
De instruendis aciebus; De optimo imperatore |
ca. 1480 |
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Sallust |
Works |
ca. 1490 |
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Cicero |
De officiis |
ca. 1490 |
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Justinian |
Corpus juris civilis |
ca. 1300 |
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Priscian |
Institutiones grammaticae |
ca. 1150 |
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Albertus Magnus |
Notes on Matthew and Mark |
ca. 1430 |
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Augustine (pseudo) |
Anthology of devotional prose and verse |
ca. 1425 |
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Pier Candido Decembrio |
Opuscula |
ca. 1460-1465 |
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Apocalypse of St. John in Church Slavonic |
19th century |
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Gospels with preface by Victor of Capua |
ca. 1175-1200 |
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Augustine |
Works |
ca. 1125-1200 |
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Augustine |
Confessions |
ca. 1150 |
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Guillaume d’Estouteville |
Epistola ad heremitas Sancti Augustini |
after 1475 |
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Thomas Aquinas |
De regimine principum |
ca. 1425 |
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Latin Psalter |
14th century |
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Boccaccio |
Decameron |
ca. 1460 |
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Livy |
Ab urbe condita (French) |
ca. 1415-1430 |
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Giacomo Vallaresso |
Chronicle |
1478 |
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Book of hours (Sarum use) |
ca. 1450-1475 |
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Brut Chronicle |
ca. 1430 |
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English Psalter with Commentary |
ca. 1400 |
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Charles III |
Grant of nobility |
1780 Oct. 15 |
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Virgil |
Works |
ca. 1460-1470 |
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Breviary |
ca. 1500 |
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Magna Carta; Nova statuta |
1468-1469 |
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Boccaccio |
On Famous Women |
ca. 1425 |
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Book of hours (use of Paris) |
ca. 1420-1425 |
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Petrarch |
Canzoniere and Trionfi |
1440 |
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The Life and Martyrdom of St. Catherine |
ca. 1425-1450 |
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Book of hours |
ca. 1405 |
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Bastiano Foresi |
Triumph of Virtue |
ca. 1475 |
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Martyrologium |
14th century |
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John Tillotson |
Sermons |
1662 |
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Joseph Leland |
Joseph Leland’s Ledger |
1783-1787 |
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Martin V |
Mandate concerning the diocese of Lisbon |
1423 Mar. 6 |
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