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Reference files of Albinia de la Mare: 'Miscellaneous, including correspondence, Vergil, dated and datable manuscripts B[ritish] L[ibrary] and O[xford] B[odleian] L[ibrary], Lorenzo de' Medici, et al.', 1979-1996 and n.d. [c.1986]

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MS. 18746/189
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Folder 1: correspondence, 1996, including letters concerning
  1. a possible contribution by de la Mare to a volume, The Legacy of M.R. James
  2. the hand of Coluccio Salutati
  3. Livy
  4. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. XXV. 3, Supplicationes variae, apparently from the library of Cosimo de' Medici
  5. Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS. 59 / 153

Folder 2: letters received from [Virginia Brown], Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, Apr 1996, and related photocopies of
  1. Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, IV. E. 6 (Vergil)
  2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Add. A. 164 (commentary on Vergil, Georgics)
  3. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 52. 32 (commentary on Vergil, Aeneid, Cristoforo Landino?)
  4. Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, MS. 1368 (1463)
  5. Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, Cod. CCLXXXI (351) (anonymous commentary on Vergil)

Folder 3: correspondence and papers, 1979-1996, including
  1. list of 'Dated Italian Humanistic Manuscripts in the British Library (based on Watson, [ Catalogue (1979)] & Derolez, [ Codicologie (1984)])'
  2. descriptions of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, S. Croce 14 dext. 2 and Ravenna, Biblioteca Classense, MS. 469 (Cicero, Letters, scribe Aurispa)
  3. photocopies of extracts from R. Del Sal, G. Castiglioni, Miniature nei codici e negli incunaboli della Biblioteca di Bassano (Bassano del Grappa, 1985) (not in the Bodleian Library; relating to a possible Sallando manuscript, a Cyprian, Letters, and other manuscripts)
  4. correspondence, 1979-1988, relating to matters including a Bruni manuscript, MS. 2694 II, in Bibliotheca Czartorysciana, Kraków; Giovanni Aretino; Munich manuscripts; Puccini scribe; Livy manuscripts)

Folder 4: notes, 1986 and n.d. [c.1986], on
  1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, manuscripts, dated and datable, but not in Watson, Catalogue (1984), taken from 'R.W. H[unt]’s list'
  2. 'Other manuscripts to look at for interest'
  3. Iop R., scribe
  4. San Daniele del Friuli scribes, including Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 8954 and San Daniele del Friuli, Biblioteca Guarneriana, MS. 29, 41 and 19

Folder 5: 'Miscellaneous correspondence, notes, and reproductions', 1989-1996, including materials relating to
  1. the hand of the scribe of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Rinuccini 12 (Ovid)
  2. the scribe of Vergil MS. 837 ('Es dela Lib.a de S. Miguel delos Reyes') with photographs of folios from the manuscript, received from Helga Lengenfelder, Munich
  3. the hand of Bruni
  4. a new Aretino manuscript in Paris, apparently Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 11289
  5. 'in der Schrift Coluccio Salutati eng verwandtes', Seneca manuscript
  6. London, British Library, Add. 21083 (Donatus on Terence, Ferrara?, second quarter 15th century)
  7. Luca Fabiani and ser Antonio di Piero da Colle
  8. 'Lorenzo's Latin Manuscripts and their scribes', a paper by de la Mare concerning manuscripts probably commissioned by Lorenzo de' Medici il Magnifico (incomplete)
  9. de la Mare’s preface to A Palaeographer's View: The Selected Writings of Julian Brown (1993)
  10. publication of a facsimile of a Medici prayer book by Verlag Müller und Schindler, Stuttgart (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 23639)
  11. de la Mare's residency as a Guest Scholar at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica, 1992
  12. 'Splendours of Italian Illumination', an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (handlist)
  13. 'Dolphins & Anchors, Cats and Mice: Selections from the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine & Early Italian Printing Collections', 'Getty', 1992 (list of items, annotated by de la Mare)
  14. photocopies of an unidentified Book of Hours in humanistic script
  15. 'Colloquium, Antonio Agustín and the Classical Culture of his Time', Warburg Institute, University of London, 16-17 Mar 1990, including descriptions of Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 6035; 6036
  16. requests received by de la Mare for assistance with research

Dates

  • Creation: 1979-1996 and n.d. [c.1986]

Extent

1 box (5 folders)

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/189

Former reference:

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

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