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Reference files of Albinia de la Mare: ' New Research , Fiesole, S. Croce', 1975-1998 and n.d. [c.1978-2000]

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MS. 18746/90
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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

  1. S. Croce 12 sin. 8 (Aristotle, Ethics, et al., Florence or Rome, Johannes de Rodenberga?)
  2. 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')
  3. S. Croce 14 sin. 9 (Cicero, Speeches, scribe of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, S. Croce 14 sin. 9)
  4. S. Croce 23 sin. 10 (Cicero, De officiis, scribe Hieronymus)
  5. S. Croce 19 sin. 9 (Florus, Periochae, and Justin, beginning of Justin carefully corrected by Fonzio)
  6. 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)
  7. 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')
  8. S. Croce 24 sin. 2 (Terence, circle of Salutati?; very like Salutati, illumination Bartolomeo di Fruosino, from Bucelli, later humanistic annotations)
  9. S. Croce 22 sin. 6 (Donatus on Terence, scribe of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Fies. 175, possibly Calisirtis?)
  10. 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?)
  11. 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)
  12. S. Croce 9 sin. 4 (S. Antonino, Summa, pt. 1, semi-Gothic hand, Lottus de Bancosis, 1471)
  13. S. Croce 28 dex. 10 (Aquinas, scribe of Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 154)
  14. S. Croce 18 sin. 10 (Flavius Josephus, scribe Bucelli, apparently a second hand from fol. 288v, line 25, possibly de Tianis)
  15. S. Croce 19 sin. 4 (Flavius Josephus, signed Bucelli)
  16. S. Croce 20 sin. 7 (Caesar, heading by Leonardo da Colle, manuscript signed by Francesco Contugi)
  17. S. Croce 20 sin. 1 (Pliny, Naturalis Historia, and prefatory matter, scribe of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Fies. 49)
  18. S. Croce 20 sin. 5 (Plutarch, Lives, 'earlyish', 1430s?, headings in a different hand)
  19. S. Croce 26 sin. 5 (Petrarch, De remediis, Gaddi coat of arms and 15th century ex-libris of Angelo di Zenobi Gaddi)
  20. S. Croce 23 sin. 7 (Cicero, De officiis, et al., Julianus Ant. de Prato?)
  21. S. Croce 22 sin. 7 (Varro, De lingua latina, headings possibly by ser Leonardo da Colle
  22. Plut. 31 sin. 6 (Leone di Francesco da Prato, c.1452-3, autograph)
  23. 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)
  24. 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)
  25. Plut. 19 sin. 8 (Livy, Dec. III; 1455-1456, semi-humanistic scribe of Munich, Universitätsbibliothek, 2° Cod. ms. 550)
  26. Plut. 20 sin. 4 (Suetonius, unidentified humanistic hand, c.1450 or earlier)
  27. Plut. 23 sin. 1; 23 sin. 6 (Cicero, Philippics and other speeches, unidentified scribe and scribe of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Montagu d. 33)
  28. Plut. 23 sin. 2 (Cicero, Letters, c.1440, by the scribe of Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 453)
  29. 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)
  30. Plut. 23 sin. 5 (Cicero, De natura deorum, De fato, De div., three anonymous humanistic scribes 1-180v, 109-158v, 159-167)
  31. 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).

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