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Reference files of Albinia de la Mare: 'Rufinus, Petronius, Sassetti, reviews, The Handwriting , New Research ', 1961-1978 and n.d. [c.1972-1985]

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MS. 18746/84
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Comprises:

Folder 1: notes, correspondence and reproductions relating to the article, 'The First Book printed in Oxford', by de la Mare and L. Hellinga, 1978

Folder 2: papers relating to de la Mare's 'The Return of Petronius to Italy', 1975 and n.d. [c.1975-1976]

Folder 3: correspondence and papers relating to de la Mare's article 'The Library of Francesco Sassetti', with notes on manuscripts in Florence, Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, and Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, 1970-1975 and n.d. [c.1973-1975]

Folder 4: notes for de la Mare's review of B.L. Ullman and P.A. Stadter, The Public Library of Renaissance Florence: Niccolò Niccoli, Cosimo de' Medici and the Library of San Marco (Padua, 1972), 1974 and n.d. [c.1972-1974]

Folder 5: correspondence and papers relating to de la Mare's The Handwriting of Italian Humanists, Vol. I, fasc. 1 (Oxford, 1973), including papers concerning Piero Cennini and Bartolomeo Fonzio, and a list of humanists de la Mare had identified as possible subjects for further volumes of the work, 1961-1975 and n.d. [c.1970]

Folder 6: notes relating to de la Mare's article, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence, 1440-1525', n.d. [c.1985]

Dates

  • Creation: 1961-1978 and n.d. [c.1972-1985]

Extent

1 box (6 folders)

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/84

Former reference:

Archive A. C. de la Mare, sect. II., cont. VII.A

Biographical / Historical

A.C. de la Mare, 'The Return of Petronius to Italy', was published in J.J.G. Alexander and M.T. Gibson eds., Medieval Learning and Literature. Essays Presented to R. W. Hunt, (Oxford, 1976).

A.C. de la Mare, 'The Library of Francesco Sassetti (1421-90)', was published in C.H. Clough ed., Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of P. O. Kristeller (Manchester-New York, 1976).

A.C. de la Mare, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence, 1440-1525', was published in A. Garzelli ed., Miniatura Fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: Un Primo Censimento (Florence, 1985).

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