Day: December 8, 2016

Front facade of Houghton Library

Footprints of a Bibliographical Ghost

Seymour de Ricci created this bibliographical ghost in his Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York, 1935), in an entry on the library of the late Harvard University Professor Charles Eliot Norton (I, 1059).  de Ricci described there three leaves from the Psalter and Hours written probably in…