Skip to main content

Reference files of Albinia de la Mare relating to Vespasiano da Bisticci, her PhD thesis, 'Vespasiano da Bisticci, Historian and Bookseller', University of London (Warburg Institute), 1965-1966, and other subjects: 'Vespasiano, Badia, Fiesole, San Marco, A[rchivio di] S[tato di] F[irenze], Epistolaria, notes and reproductions', 1968-1983 and n.d. [c.1960-1980]

 File
MS. 18746/131
Held in our offsite storage facility

  • Request
    this

Comprises:

Folder 1: correspondence, notes and images, 1979-1983 and n.d. [c.1979-1980], including items relating to

  1. Rome, Biblioteca Corsiniana, 44 B. 27 (Vespasiano, Vita Sancta Paula Romana)
  2. manuscripts in Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, London, British Library, and elsewhere relating to Valerius Maximus
  3. Bruni annotations (information from Professor [Edmund] Fryde)
  4. Sallando
  5. Salutati
  6. 'Manuscripts to check'
  7. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 691
  8. Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, MS. philol. 161 (Suetonius)
  9. Ithaca, Cornell University, University Library, Bd. Petrarch P. P49 R511 (MS. Pet. - Z. 13) (Petrarch, Canzoniere, Trionfi)
  10. Manchester, John Rylands Library, Hebrew 8
  11. Sotheby's sale, 11 Dec 1979

Folder 2: 'Letters in alphabetical order', notes on humanist epistolaria, in particular concerning the content of the letters, arranged in rough alphabetical order, n.d. [c.1960]

Folder 3: 'Clients and notes', comprising draft 'Chapter VIII Part II. Alphabetical Summaries of the evidence for Vespasiaono's work for his [indivi?]dual] Clients' and 'Notes, Clients', n.d. [c.1960]

Folder 4: 'V[espasiano]'s Trade, S[an] Marco, Fiesole etc., Badia accounts', annotated transcripts of documents relating to Vespasiano's trade for and with San Marco, the Badia Fiorentina, and the Badia Fiesolana, 1973 and n.d. [c.1960-1970]

Folder 5: 'Vespasiano manuscripts', lists of Fiesole manuscripts and notes, 1969-1974 and n.d. [c.1970-1975], apparently part of de la Mare's preparation for 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', published in Annarosa Garzelli ed., Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento (Florence, 1985), including

  1. 'Identifiable manuscripts directly prod[uced] by V[espasiano]'
  2. 'Fiesole manuscripts almost certainly produced by Vespasiano'
  3. 'Manuscripts not named or identifiable in [Fiesole] Accounts'
  4. 'Manuscripts V[espasiano] paid for'
  5. 'Thesis addenda, Fiesole notes etc.'
  6. notes on and transcripts from Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Fies. 227, the catalogue of the library of Fiesole, with images of the catalogue

Folder 6: 'Archive Material', transcripts from manuscripts at Archivio di Stato di Firenze and related notes, 1968 and n.d. [c.1960-1970], including materials concerning

  1. ser Griso Griselli, ser Piero Buonaccorsi, ser Anastagio di Amerigo Vespucci, ser Piero di Brunio Cortolani, ser Bernardo di Lorenzo Cortesi and ser Piero da Vinci
  2. Protocolli of ser Leonardo da Colle (T. 488-496, 499-504)
  3. Tratte, Vols. 67-68, 80, 81
  4. Medici e Speziali Matricole, 1408-44
  5. Arte Por. S. Maria
  6. Matricoli
  7. Arte della Lana
  8. Libri dei Morti, chiefly from Grascia, Vol. 5, 1457-1506
  9. Catasto, Beni of Pieve di Ripoli, 1478
  10. birthdates from Tratte 39
  11. Ricordi of Marco Parenti
  12. Paolo Uccello

Dates

  • Creation: 1968-1983 and n.d. [c.1960-1980]

Extent

1 box (6 folders)

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/131

Former reference:

Archive A. C. de la Mare, sect. II., cont. XXXVIII-D