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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 fifty-six manuscripts in the collection range from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries.
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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 |
Ledger |
1783-1787 |
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Martin V |
Mandate concerning the diocese of Lisbon |
1423 Mar. 6 |
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W. K. Richardson |
Letters to his mother |
1881-1884 |
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