Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
MS Richardson 36
This bibliography was compiled by Jessica Berenbeim, Justin Stover, Joshua O’Driscoll, Julia Schlozman and William Stoneman.
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HOLLIS Record (Link) and Digital Images (Link)
Historical Manuscripts Commission, Second Report (1874). MS cited appendix p. 6 as no. 26.
Sotheby’s, London. 21 June 1922, lot no. 639.
Catalogue of the Important Illuminated Manuscripts, Rare English and Other Mediaeval Texts, Fine Bindings, Autograph Letters, etc., Forming Part of the Renowned Library of the late Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth, Bt. LL.D. (now Sold By Order of the Trustees): which will be Sold by Auction… on Monday, 15 October, 1945, and Following Day (London: Sotheby & Co., 1945). MS designated lot no. 2133, with plate. HOLLIS
William A. Jackson, “The William King Richardson Library,” Harvard Library Bulletin 5.3 (1951), pp. 328–337. MS cited p. 329.
Mentioned briefly in an article on the acquisition of the Richardson collection. 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. 247.
A brief description of the manuscript’s physical properties, provenance, and bibliography. Available online (Link).HOLLIS
David Sandler Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 1968. MS cited p. 46, no. 79, with pl. reproducing f. 2.
A description of the manuscript with an additional discussion of the text. HOLLIS
Laurence Muir, “Translations and Paraphrases of the Bible, and Commentaries,” A Manual of Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500, 2 (1970), IV [12 and 13] Rolle’s English Psalter and Commentary; Canticles, no. 38 (as ‘Wrest Park 6’). HOLLIS
The manuscript is described as “ends imperfectly; sold at Sotheby’s June 21, 1922, Lot 639.”
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 p. 116 and fig. 144, reproducing f. 2.
A brief description of the manuscript with additional notes on provenance and bibliography. HOLLIS
Linda Ehrsam Voigts, “A Handlist of Middle English in Harvard Manuscripts,” Harvard Library Bulletin 33.1 (1985), pp. 1–96. MS cited pp. 62-64, and plate reproducing f. 2.
An extensive description of the manuscript, providing excerpts of the text. Available online (Link). HOLLIS
The manuscript is described as “acaudal.”
Valerie M. Lagorio and Michael G. Sargent, with Ritamary Bradley, “English Mystical Writings,” A Manual of Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500, 9 (1993), XXIII [2] The English Psalter Commentary, no. 38 (as ‘Wrest Park 6’). HOLLIS
The manuscript is described as “ends imperfectly; sold at Sotheby’s June 21, 1922, Lot 639.”
Michael P. Kuczynski, Prophetic Song: The Psalms as Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. MS cited pp. 185–87, pl. 4 reproducing a detail of f. 101v.
A discussion of the manuscript, focusing on notes to the text. HOLLIS
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390–1490. London: Harvey Miller, 1996. MS cited in v. II, pp. 71, 74, 75, and 132–134.
Multiple comparisons of the manuscript’s illumination to that of related psalters. HOLLIS
Ralph Hanna. The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle: A Descriptive Catalogue. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2010. MS cited p. 44. HOLLIS
A full scholarly description . In an addition commentary Hanna observes that the MS is “not truly ‘acaudal,’as Voigts suggest, but ending with the customary conclusion of RV1.”
Anne Hudson, ed. Two Revisions of Rolle’s English Psalter Commentary and the Related Canticles. Early English Text Society, Original Series 340. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society, 2012. MS cited pp. xl-xlii.
A full scholarly description of the MS and throughout the critical apparatus as “H.”. Hudson also notes that “the statement in Hanna, Catalogue, 44 that H ends ‘with the customary conclusion of RV1’ is incorrect; no other extant manuscript ends at this point, an ending which is here deliberate.” A detail of f. 2 is reproduced on the dust jacket.