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 Very Fine Illuminated Manuscripts…: which will be Sold by Auction… on Monday, 12th December, 1927, and Three Following Days [Peckover sale] (London: Sotheby and Co., 1927). MS designated lot no. 33.

Harvard College Library, Illuminated & Calligraphic Manuscripts: An Exhibition held at the Fogg Art Museum & Houghton Library, February 14–April 1, 1955. Cambridge, Mass.: n.p., 1955. MS cited no. 67 and pl. 20 reproducing f. 3.
Brief description of the manuscript’s contents and physical properties. An additional note on the manuscript’s illumination. 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 v. I, 961.
Brief description of the manuscript with an additional note on provenance. Available online (Link). HOLLIS     

W.H. Bond and C.U. Faye, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962. MS cited p. 246.
Very brief description. Available online (Link). HOLLIS

Winifried Fauser, Die Werke des Albertus Magnus in ihrer handschriftlichen Überlieferung / Codices manuscripti operum Albert Magni. Münster: Aschendorff, 1982–. MS cited pp. 225 and 228, nos 51.3 ad 53.1.
Brief description of the manuscript with explicit. 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. 43 reproducing f. 12v.
A description of the manuscript and its illumination—listing subject matter and folio numbers. Also, a discussion of Albertus Magnus and a similar manuscript now in the Bodleian Library at Oxford (MS Lyell empt. 9). HOLLIS