Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library

Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
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This bibliography was compiled by Jessica Berenbeim, Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll and Julia Schlozman.
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Catalogue of Valuable Books, Manuscripts, and Autograph Letters…: which will be Sold by Auction… on Tuesday, the 21st of December, 1915, and Following Day (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1915). MS designated lot no. 26.

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 v. I, p. 957.
Very brief description of manuscript’s physical properties, approximate date, and provenance. Available online (Link). HOLLIS         

Roger S. Wieck, Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, 1350–1525, in the Houghton Library. Cambridge: Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, 1983. MS cited no. 28 reproducing ff. 28v and 4.
A description of the manuscript’s physical properties, a list of miniatures and their folio numbers, provenance and bibliography provided. A discussion cites various other related manuscripts. HOLLIS

Lilian M.C. Randall, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press/Walters Art Gallery, 1989–. MS cited in v. III, part II, p. 486 (under entry no. 290, for MS W. 427).
Briefly cited as a related manuscript to MS W. 427. HOLLIS

Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library, ed. by Thomas Kren. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1983. MS cited, pp. 59–60.
Briefly cited in connection with British Library Additional MS 18852 as an example of a manuscript with an interior architectural border.
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