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Reference files of Albinia de la Mare relating to Florentine scribes, containing photographs and photocopies of manuscripts and related papers: 'Miscellaneous, including Florentine scribes, Lucca, Rome, Contugi', 1965-2001 and n.d. [c.1960-2005]

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Comprises:

Folder 1: 'Franciscus de Ugolinis'

Folder 2: 'Late Florentine Scribes - New Research Prep[aration]', relating to
  1. 'Late Flor[entine] scribes - names, clients, and manuscripts (= scribes still active c.1480 on)', information in the form of tables
  2. 'Misc[ellaneous] anon[ymous], scribe of Genoa, [Biblioteca] Durazzo, A. VII. 4 and [London,] B[ritish] L[ibrary,] Add. 22329'
  3. 'Cantes Bonagii de Cantinis'

Folder 3: 'Cities of manuscript production, Lucca', relating to
  1. Princeton, University Library, Kane 43 (Iustinus, scribe Luca di Vannucori of Lucca, coat of arms Lucalberti)
  2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Class. Lat. 28 (Juvenal?, Persius, Horace)
  3. London, British Library, Add. 16163; Burn. 165 (Cicero, Tusc. Q., scribe Ludovicus Vannuchoris); Harl. 3953 (Cicero, et al., by the same scribe)
  4. Lucca, Biblioteca Capitolare Feliniana, MS. VIII. 562 (Cicero, De finibus, by Ludovicus Vannuchoris, 1468)
  5. Yale, Beinecke Library, Marston 250 (Barbaro, De re uxoria, Plato and Xenophon, translated by Bruni, scribe Guillielmus Rustichellus of Pisa, at Lucca, 1434-1435)
  6. former Oxford, Bodleian Library, Astor A. 10, sold at Sotheby's, Dec 1987, lot 45

Folder 4: ‘Flor[ence] cursive, Scribe of Brescia, [Biblioteca Queriniana] B. VII. 33, produced by Vespasiano', relating to Pseudo-Phalaris and Brutus, Letters

Folder 5: 'Contugi, Matteo', relating to
  1. Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, J. I. 22 - 23 (Pliny, Naturalis Historia)
  2. Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, Vit. 22. 1
  3. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 10; 151; 324; 336; 365; 392; 427; 548; Vat. lat. 9063
  4. transcripts of letters by Contugi from Mantua, Archivio di Stato, E. XXXI, 2, busta 1182; 1228; 2399; 2402; 2409; 2410
  5. London, British Library, Yates Thompson MS. 7; Add. 26864; 22335; Harl. 3567 (Petrarch, for Francesco Gonzaga)
  6. Oxford, Christ Church, MS. CXIV
  7. Ferrara, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, MS.II. 170
  8. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 54. 20
  9. Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Ital. 416
  10. Mantua, Archivio di Stato, E. XXXI. 3, B. 1299

Folder 6: papers comprising
  1. photographic prints and negatives of folios from a Pliny, Naturalis Historia, by the Pietro da Montagnana scribe, supplied by J. Günther, Antiquariat, Hamburg, [1999]
  2. correspondence with Albert Derolez, Rijksuniversiteit, Gent, Apr-Jul 1979, concerning a typescript, 'Typologie des manuscrits humanistiques du XVe siècle' [published as A. Derolez, Codicologie Des Manuscrits En Ecriture Humanistique Sur Parchemin (Belgium: Brepols, 1984)], and related papers
  3. drafts of de la Mare’s entry for 'Palaeography' in the third edition of The Oxford Classical Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 1996), and related correspondence, 1994
  4. letter received from George Salt, King's College, Cambridge, concerning a fragment from Dante, Divina Commedia, held by the College, and photographs of extracts, 22 Aug 1984
  5. photocopies of Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 3429 (Tacitus, Agricola) and related text from A. Canellas López, Exempla Scripturarum Latinarum in usum scholarum, I (1913)
  6. 'Early humanistic script', photographs of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 68. 4 (Tacitus, copied from the Montecassino manuscript before it lost two pages); Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Lat. Z. 483 (1889) (Nonius Marcellus, early Venice?); and a photocopy of pages from D. De Robertis, 'Censimento dei manoscritti di rime di Dante', in Studi Danteschi, 40 (1963) regarding Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. 1058 (1425, Treviso)

Folder 7: '[John] Tiptoft', including
  1. notes regarding corrections to an article by [James] Tait in The English Historical Review, XXXV, Oct 1920
  2. images of Cambridge, St. John's College, C. 11; I. 38
  3. images of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. F. 1. 13; Arch. Seld. B. 50
  4. description of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS. 66
  5. image of Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS. 152 / 202
  6. image of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 5728 (fol. 1) (Livy)
  7. copy letter from de la Mare to the Librarian, Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, regarding their manuscript, J. II. 7, 8 Jan 1988

Folder 8: 'Florence, early - misc[ellaneous] to sort, and N[ew] R[esearch]', mainly notes, 1991-2001, relating to
  1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. class. d. 37 (Cicero, De oratore and Orator, Florence, 1412)
  2. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 133 (Seneca, Tragedies, Florence, gothic); Plut. 40. 47 (G. Dominici, Burchiello, scribe Michael Nicolas de Vulterris, 1461; Florence, gothic)
  3. Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. A. 3. 494 (Flavius Josephus, Florence, gothic, semi-humanistic)
  4. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 65. 23 (Diogenes Laertius, scribe Piero Strozzi)
  5. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borgh. 341 (Cicero, Speeches, early Florentine but not Giovanni Aretino, c.1410-1420?, or earlier)
  6. Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 498 (Cicero, Speeches, Florence, early, 1420-1430); 114 (Aristotle, Ethics, translated by Bruni, Florence, early)
  7. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 50. 6 (Cicero, Tusc. Q., Florence, early)
  8. Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 159 (scribe Franciscus) (images only)
  9. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Fies. 12 (images only)

Folder 9: 'Cities of production, Rome', relating to
  1. first scribe of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Class. Lat. 191 (Aristotle, cursive, 1475): namepiece
  2. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 89 sup. 55 (explicit titles the work as the 'Errores aristotelis, averois, avicennae al gazelis aikindi et rabi mosi')
  3. T. De Marinis, Cat. VIII (1908), no. 39 (Horace)

Folder 10: 'Manuscripts to look at - Vat[ican]', including notes on Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Codici latini datati II; 'Urbino manuscripts'; and manuscripts held by Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale, and Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare

Folder 11: images and notes relating to
  1. 'Manuscripts to see, lists to check', including notes on 'owners etc. from D'Ancona, Min[iatura] Fior[entina]', 'possible Holes', 'Vespasiano's Works - Scribes', and attributions to Sinibaldi
  2. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 83. 10; 89 sup. 113
  3. London, British Library, Add. 15286 (Livy translated by Boccaccio, scribe Georgius de Sibenico)
  4. Nic. Ugolini manuscript in Alan Thomas, Cat. 25 (1970)
  5. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 818 (Eusebius; Manetti, Tommaso Tani)
  6. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. 19. 26. 1 Aug. 4° (Werken)
  7. a Sinibaldi manuscript in Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale (MS. A. 581 bis)
  8. London, British Library, Harl. 4822 and (rejected) connection with Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 10665, copied by Tanaglia
  9. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chig. H. V. 173
  10. Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Pal. Baldovinetti 62
  11. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 6069B
  12. the Fondazione Horne scribe, including an image of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 40. 41
  13. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 1249; Vat. lat. 13680
  14. the binding of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashb. 934
  15. Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 635 (Cristoforo Landino)

Dates

  • Creation: 1965-2001 and n.d. [c.1960-2005]

Extent

1 box (11 folders)

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/160

Former reference:

Archive A. C. de la Mare, sect. II., cont. XLVIII-K2

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