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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Quaritch, Catalogue (1868). MS designated no. 60.

Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Illuminated and Other Manuscripts, and Early Editions of Classical Authors, Originally Formed about 1800 by Henry Ellis Allen, Esq., B.A., and Augmented by his son, Captain Samuel Allen; with a few Important Manuscripts from Other Sources… which will be Sold by Auction… on Friday, January 30th, 1920 (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1920). MS designated lot no. 92.

Joseph Martini, Catalogue 17 (1921). MS designated no. 18.

Joseph Martini, Catalogue 18 (1922). MS designated no. 15.

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. 960. (Link)
Brief description of the manuscript’s physical properties and contents. An additional note on provenance. Available online (Link). HOLLIS          

Margaret Gibson, “Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae: A Handlist of Manuscripts,” Scriptorium 26 (1972), pp. 105–124. MS cited p. 108.
Brief citation in a list of manuscripts containing the text of Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae. HOLLIS

Marina Passalacqua, I Codici di Prisciano, Sussidi Eruditi, 29. Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1978. MS cited no. 95.
Brief description of the manuscript. HOLLIS

G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa, 4. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981. MS cited no. 116.2.
Brief description of the manuscript with incipit. HOLLIS

Laura Light, The Bible in the Twelfth Century: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at the Houghton Library. Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1988. MS cited p. 108.
Very brief description of the manuscript. HOLLIS