Reference files of Albinia de la Mare: ' New Research , Fiesole, S. Croce', 1975-1998 and n.d. [c.1978-2000]
Comprises:
Folder 1: 'Notes or addenda for New Research', n.d. [c.1985-2000]
Folder 2: photocopies of index cards relating to manuscripts, apparently supplied by A. Garzelli, annotated by de la Mare, n.d. [c.1980]
Folder 3: 'Scribes and owners etc., text and footnotes', including preparatory notes and drafts, and correspondence with Annarosa Garzelli, 1975-1984 and n.d. [c.1978-1984]
Folder 4: 'B[iblioteca] M[edicea] L[aurenziana], S[an]ta Croce', papers relating to a planned exhibition, 1994-1998 and n.d. [c.1998]. The exhibition was not held. Contains notes on and descriptions of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana manuscripts including
- S. Croce 12 sin. 8 (Aristotle, Ethics, et al., Florence or Rome, Johannes de Rodenberga?)
- S. Croce 24 sin. 1 (Vergil, Aeneid, but presumably once also included Bucolics and Georgics, Florence, mid-15th century?, 'quite early humanistic hand, not familiar')
- S. Croce 14 sin. 9 (Cicero, Speeches, scribe of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, S. Croce 14 sin. 9)
- S. Croce 23 sin. 10 (Cicero, De officiis, scribe Hieronymus)
- S. Croce 19 sin. 9 (Florus, Periochae, and Justin, beginning of Justin carefully corrected by Fonzio)
- S. Croce 25 sin. 7 (Bernardus Florentinus or Bernardino Barducci Cherichini, Dialogus de laudibus castitatis atque virginitatis, apparently in part autograph, 1471, decoration possibly Sienese)
- S. Croce 22 sin. 5 (Quintilian, text close to Tanaglia's manuscript, Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Lat. 406, or α. F. 6 26, script nearly humanistic, annotations by Panormita?, 'erasure of 3 lines at end, tantalizing, almost legible')
- S. Croce 24 sin. 2 (Terence, circle of Salutati?; very like Salutati, illumination Bartolomeo di Fruosino, from Bucelli, later humanistic annotations)
- S. Croce 22 sin. 6 (Donatus on Terence, scribe of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Fies. 175, possibly Calisirtis?)
- S. Croce 20 sin. 5 (Plutarch, Lives, and Demosthenes and Cicero by Bruni, early, 1430s, scribe 'VG' or 'GV'?, annotations in a later humanistic hand, D. Acciaiuoli?)
- S. Croce 11 sin. 6 (S. Antonino, Summa, pt. 3, semi-humanistic cursive, apparently in three hands, with note by rubricator-illuminator on fol. 389v)
- S. Croce 9 sin. 4 (S. Antonino, Summa, pt. 1, semi-Gothic hand, Lottus de Bancosis, 1471)
- S. Croce 28 dex. 10 (Aquinas, scribe of Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 154)
- S. Croce 18 sin. 10 (Flavius Josephus, scribe Bucelli, apparently a second hand from fol. 288v, line 25, possibly de Tianis)
- S. Croce 19 sin. 4 (Flavius Josephus, signed Bucelli)
- S. Croce 20 sin. 7 (Caesar, heading by Leonardo da Colle, manuscript signed by Francesco Contugi)
- S. Croce 20 sin. 1 (Pliny, Naturalis Historia, and prefatory matter, scribe of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Fies. 49)
- S. Croce 20 sin. 5 (Plutarch, Lives, 'earlyish', 1430s?, headings in a different hand)
- S. Croce 26 sin. 5 (Petrarch, De remediis, Gaddi coat of arms and 15th century ex-libris of Angelo di Zenobi Gaddi)
- S. Croce 23 sin. 7 (Cicero, De officiis, et al., Julianus Ant. de Prato?)
- S. Croce 22 sin. 7 (Varro, De lingua latina, headings possibly by ser Leonardo da Colle
- Plut. 31 sin. 6 (Leone di Francesco da Prato, c.1452-3, autograph)
- Plut. 1 sin. 9 (Henry of Susa, Summa, Bolognese manuscript of 14th century, decorated in Florence c.1440-1450, coat of arms Spinelli of Florence)
- Plut. 9 sin. 1; 9 sin. 2; 9 sin. 3 (Rayner of Pisa, Pantheologia or Rayneriana, all three volumes by the scribe of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 9 sin. 6)
- Plut. 19 sin. 8 (Livy, Dec. III; 1455-1456, semi-humanistic scribe of Munich, Universitätsbibliothek, 2° Cod. ms. 550)
- Plut. 20 sin. 4 (Suetonius, unidentified humanistic hand, c.1450 or earlier)
- Plut. 23 sin. 1; 23 sin. 6 (Cicero, Philippics and other speeches, unidentified scribe and scribe of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Montagu d. 33)
- Plut. 23 sin. 2 (Cicero, Letters, c.1440, by the scribe of Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 453)
- Plut. 23 sin. 4; 23 sin. 8 (Cicero, De oratore, first manuscript in a semi-Gothic hand of c.1425-1440, with headings by Leonardo Tolosani, the other volume of c.1440-1450 by two humanistic hands, with heading by the scribe of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 20 sin. 1)
- Plut. 23 sin. 5 (Cicero, De natura deorum, De fato, De div., three anonymous humanistic scribes 1-180v, 109-158v, 159-167)
- Plut. 23 sin. 9 (Cicero, De inventione, et al.)
Dates
- Creation: 1975-1998 and n.d. [c.1978-2000]
Extent
1 box (4 folders)
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. 18746/90
Former reference:
Archive A. C. de la Mare, sect. II., cont. XIII
Biographical / Historical
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).
Creator
- From the Collection: de la Mare | Albinia Catherine | 1932-2001 | librarian and palaeographer (Person)
Repository Details
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