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Reference files of Albinia de la Mare, containing photographs and photocopies of manuscripts and related papers: 'Tanaglia, Florentine scribes ('New Research'), non-Florentine and unlocalised, mysteries, miscellaneous, Gothic, and Hebrew manuscripts', 1965-2001 and n.d. [c.1970-2000]

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Folder 1: 'Tanaglia', notes and images relating to manuscripts including

  1. Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Lat. 406 (α. F. 6. 26; Quintilian)
  2. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1867 (Curtius Rufus)
  3. London, British Library, Harl. 2462 (Demosthenes)
  4. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 1710 (Cicero); Vat. lat. 1720 (Cicero, scribe of London, British Library, Harl. 5291?); 10665 (Aulus Gellius); 1928
  5. London, British Library, Harl. 4822 (annotator ‘definitely not Tanaglia’); Add. 16980 (Cicero, ‘some notes poss[ibly] Jouffroy’)
  6. Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 471 (scribe Spina Azolini)
  7. Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. I. IV. 2 (San Marco 283) (Seneca)
  8. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, 48. 26 (Cicero); Strozzi 22 (‘Isidore’ etc, from Salutati’)
  9. Oxford, New College, MS. 133 (Lactantius)
  10. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Pat. Lat. 218 (Augustine, De civitate Dei); D’Orville 13 (Quintilian)
  11. Florence, Archivio di Stato di Firenze, MAP IX. 84
  12. Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. J. IV. 2 (Seneca, Bracelli)
  13. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 10665 (Aulus Gellius)
  14. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 48. 26 (Cicero)
  15. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 65. 35 (Prosper, Eutropius, et al., from Salutati)
  16. Florence, Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Catasto 681
  17. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1928 (Valerius Maximus, from Salutati); 10665 (Aulus Gellius)
  18. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 763 (Cicero, scribe Giovanni Aretino, and notes also by Cosimo?)
  19. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 48. 26 (Cicero)
  20. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1928 (Valerius Maximus)
  21. Yale, Beinecke Library, Marston 7 (Cicero, Speeches, scribe of annotations and headings)
  22. Sotheby's, 18 Jun 1991, lot 80, now Collection Martin Schøyen (Lactantius)
  23. Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. J. V. 43, fol. IIv (Ammianus Marcellinus copied by Niccoli)
  24. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 48. 26 (Cicero, Speeches)
  25. Oxford, New College, MS. 133 (Lactantius, c.1440)
  26. Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Lat. 406 (α. F. 6. 26)
  27. Oxford, Bodleian Library, D’Orville 13 (Quintilian)
  28. London, British Library, Add. 16980 (Cicero, Speeches)
  29. Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. J. IV. 2
  30. Glasgow, University Library,, Hunterian MS. T. 4. 7 (Lactantius)
  31. Sankt Gallen, Vadiana Stiftsbibliothek, MS. 298 (Eusebius-Jerome, Chronicle)
  32. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1720 (Cicero, Brutus, et al.)

Folder 2: 'Corbinelli scribe (Tanaglia)', including notes on 'possible' and dated or datable manuscripts, and materials relating to

  1. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Conv. soppr. 111; 131; Plut. 45. 9; 48. 27; 48. 34; 51. 4; 67. 11; 78. 11
  2. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 903
  3. Sotheby’s, 18 Jun 1991, lot 80 (Lactantius), now Collection Martin Schøyen

Folder 3: 'Non Flor[entine] or unlocalised', relating to manuscripts including

  1. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 45. 6 (Servius on Vergil, scribe Johannes Almanus, for Jean Sbarra); Strozzi 143 (booklist headed ‘in 2a capsa’)
  2. London, British Library, Add. 28811 (Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus, northern Italy, third quarter 15th century?, Gothic hybrid hand, on paper, annotated in an English? cursive hand, greyish ink); Harl. 2653; 6348 (Petrarch, Boccaccio, 'early in England')
  3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. F. inf. 1. 1 (Dionigi da Borgo S. Sepolcro, Comm. on Valerius Maximus, ‘English hum[anism]’)
  4. Oxford, Magdalen College, Lat. 49 (Petrus Iohannis Olivi on Matthew, English)
  5. University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Library, MS. 1266 (Book of Hours, Naples or Taranto)
  6. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1486 (Cicero, Speeches, north eastern?, possibly mid-15th century, with ex-libris ‘1486 Bourdelot’ of possibly 17th century, and ‘Leonardus Sarracenus, 16th century?’); Vat. lat. 1510 (Servius on Vergil, with ex-libris 'G. de Sancto Angelo', a few notes in a different small and neat humanistic hand on fols. 3v, 20, 143: ‘?Aurispa, might be’); 3122 ('not Giovanni Tortelli'); 5990 (Comm. on Vergil and Lucan by Zono de' Magnalis)
  7. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashb. 1702 (miscellany, scribe Petrus Ortinus, 1456, with additions by Poliziano? and several other hands)
  8. Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. I. IX. 37 (Platina, in San Marco binding no. '349', given to San Marco by Lorenzo da Bisticci, current Gothic hand of German type, but initials Italian, apparently dated 1472)

Folder 4: 'North East?'; 'Mysteries'; 'Completed Manuscripts', relating to manuscripts including

  1. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS. 155 (Book of Hours, Contugi, or Veterano, or da Sandalo)
  2. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 29. 40 (Bacon, Perspectiva, signed ‘Io. plure Francigena transcripsit’, apparently no decoration); 52. 18 (G. Marzio, De doctrine promiscue ad L. Medicum, c.1490, north east or Bologna?, image from A. Lenzuni ed., All’ombra del lauro: documenti librari della cultura in età laurenziana (Milan, 1992), catalogue of an exhibition, Florence, 1992, no. 2. 96)
  3. London, British Library, Add. 22815 (images of Plato, Timaeus, translated by Chalcidius, scribe Piero Strozzi, fols. 26v-27r, 27v-28r)

Folder 5: 'Miscellaneous', notes and images relating to materials including

  1. Carpentras, Bibliothèque Inguimbertine, MS. 618 (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Nouv. acq. lat. 379 (Pliny, Letters, Dictys Cretensis, Padua? 14th-15th centuries) Historia Augusta)
  2. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Nouv. acq. lat. 379 (Pliny, Letters, Dictys Cretensis, Padua? 14th-15th centuries)
  3. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preuβischer Kulturbesitz, Diez. B. Sant. 37 (Ep. Sapph., Catullus)
  4. Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. I. VII. 47 (Aquinas on Aristotle, with some headings etc. added throughout by Filippo Ugolini, as is the San Marco ex-libris); Conv. soppr. I. VII. 29 (Transitus Hieronymi, copied by Ormannus?)
  5. Florence, Biblioteca Marucelliana, Vespucci incunabula
  6. Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. I. II. 34 (Peraldus, Sermons on Gospels, one annotating hand rather like early Petrarch); Conv. soppr. I. III. 25 (Gerardus Odonis, with ex-libris? Iulianus de Arena, 1468 or 1464); Conv. soppr. I. V. 11 (Aegidius Romanus on Aristotle, Physics); Conv. soppr. I. III. 9 (Alexander of Hales, Summa, pars I and IV)
  7. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 40. 25 (Dante, Divina commedia, 14th century, on paper, and with letter of Petrarch to Lombardo della Seta added at end in a humanistic hand); S. Croce 24 dext. 4 (Alexander of Hales, former San Marco volume which has note of gift from Cosimo, and an erased S. Croce ex-libris below - exchanged in 1446)
  8. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 1748 (Tacitus, Florence or Rome, third quarter 15th century)
  9. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Ital. 288 (Benedetto da Cesena, Rimini?, 1450s?)
  10. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 3175 (Tibullus, Padua, 1450-1460, scribe Antonio da Salla?)
  11. ‘Utilità dello studio della decorazione dei codici del XV secolo per individuarne la provenienza e la data’, draft of a lecture by de la Mare, given in Naples, 9 Mar 2001, with bibliography. Concerns Florence, Venice, Padua, Rome, Gioacchino, Naples.
  12. Florentine scribes and humanists: Niccolò Fonzio; Giovanfrancesco Marzi; scribe of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Fies. 39?; Julianus Antonio da Prato; M. Marco; Domenico Cassii; Benedetto; Bartolomeo Fonzio / Sassetti; Lorenzo and Pierfrancesco de’ Medici; Sinibaldi / Verazzano, Pierfilippo Pandolfini; miscellaneous; Poggio)
  13. Florentine scribes and humanists: Niccolò Fonzio; Giovanfrancesco Marzi; scribe of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Fies. 39?; Julianus Antonio da Prato; M. Marco; Domenico Cassii; Benedetto; Bartolomeo Fonzio / Sassetti; Lorenzo and Pierfrancesco de’ Medici; Sinibaldi / Verazzano, Pierfilippo Pandolfini; miscellaneous; Poggio
  14. 'Munich possibles': Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 69; 175; 84; 248; 310; 319; 324; 638; 627; 763; 802; 809; 821; 919; 920; 927; 15732 and 15733; 15734; 15724; 15739; 23639; 15738; 15743
  15. 'Zurich, [Zentralbibliothek]', C. 87; C. 92; C. 122; Rh. 166
  16. 'France manuscripts': Semur, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 39; Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 480; 481; 493; 837; Reims, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 1307; Strasbourg, Bibliothèque nationale et unversitaire, MS. 295 (Regius?); Troyes, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 1499; 690; 1211; 1843; 2243
  17. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, 'Informazioni bibliografiche'
  18. 'Photos to order': from London, British Library, U.S.A., Copenhagen, Paris, Bologna, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Milan, Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Madrid, [Biblioteca Nacional] ('probably Florentine manuscripts': MS. 10317; Res. 236; Res. 7; Res. 50; Res. 53; Vit. 16. 3; Res. 244; MS. 10271; 10412; 10205; Res. 242; MS. 10443; 497; 4198; 6868; 9121; 10020; 10030; 10060; 10072; 10019; 10153; 10227; Res. 43; Res. 195; Res. 233; Vit. 4. 1; Vit. 22. 9; Vit. 4. 12; MS. 5821), Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Harvard, Leiden, San Daniele, and others
  19. manuscripts in an exhibition in the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua
  20. Vitae Patrum manuscripts: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Fies. 34; Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1199 - from Filippo Calandrini, Rome, mid-15th century; 1200; Urb. lat. 389; Naples, Biblioteca Gerolamini, XXII (semi-Gothic rotunda, acanthus decoration, 1434, from the Monastery of San Luigi, Venice); Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII. B. 27 (Gothic hand, indeterminate, 14th-15th centuries); Poitiers, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 249
  21. Venetian bindings in the British Library (photocopies of rubbings)
  22. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana 'manuscripts to look at', from J. Hankins’s work on Bruni (Ottob. lat. 2216; Patetta 303; 323; Reg. lat. 1189; Vat. lat. 4504; 4505; 5197; 8729; 11547), and Bartolomeo Sanvito manuscripts
  23. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 90 inf. 53 (possibly the scribe of Sixtus IV Cyprian)
  24. Moscow, Biblioteka Lenina, MS. 256, 177 (Sallust). [Now Rossiyskaya Gosudartsvennaya Biblioteka, Fond. 256 N. 177]
  25. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 1514 (Propertius, scribe Francesco de Camuciis, annotations attributed to 'early Bembo')
  26. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 5814 (Suetonius, with transcription of marginalia of the first few pages); Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. lat. 98; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 184; all in a letter from de la Mare to Dr. Stephen Oakley, University of Reading, 19 Feb 2001, with additional notes by Oakley

Folder 6: 'Hebrew Manuscripts with Florentine decoration'; 'Non-Florentine', notes and images relating to manuscripts including

  1. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preuβischer Kulturbesitz, Hamilton 547 (Book of Psalms showing scenes from the life of King David, Italy, 15th century)
  2. 'Italian manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery' by J. Oliver, annotated by de la Mare
  3. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ross. 502 (Lucretius, Bologna?)
  4. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 21. 1 (Nicolaus de Lyra on Genesis, Ferrara, third quarter 15th century, 1450s?)
  5. London, British Library, Add. 16436 (Rules for the Spiritual life, in Italian, Ferrara or Pesaro, and from San Domenico, Pesaro)
  6. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1842 (Livy, scribe Johannes de Alamania); 4609 (Cicero, De officiis, Ferrara, signed by Francesco Aleardi, 1440)
  7. Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLQ 22 (Plautus); BPL 2887 (Petrarch, Milan, mid-third quarter 15th century); BPL 2 (Tertullian, scribe Mennio)
  8. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 20. 9 (Life of the hermit Saint Rolandus, Milan?, or Parma, with Medici arms)
  9. Pisa, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 529 (Isocrates, translated by Lapo, decoration and possibly the script by Gioacchino, Urban Doczi coat of arms)
  10. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. lat. 482 (Psalter, apparently illuminated and written by Jacobus Veronensis, 1459, quite good humanistic script, slightly uneven)
  11. Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, VLF 14 (Cicero, Opera phil., Rome, third quarter 15th century); VLF 49 (Cicero, Ep. fam., Rome, mid-15th century, script looks Florentine, similar to Sinibaldus C. and Franciscus de Tianis, ends letters with semi-colon, Greek added by a careful hand)
  12. Pisa, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 537 (Lorenzo Donati, Sermons / orations, Rome, third quarter 15th century, c.1461-1464)
  13. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4498 (classical miscellany including Tacitus, Frontinus?, Festus Rufus, Censorinus, Seneca, Suetonius, De gramm., annotated by Tommaso Phaedra Inghirami, Rome?, distinctive, familiar hand)
  14. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University, University Library, MS. 112 (Dictys Cretensis, Siena?, Petroni coat of arms with ‘SPQR’ above)
  15. Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 38B (Lactantius, Verona, third quarter 15th century, notes by Parrhasio?)
  16. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 1746 (Caesar, Ferrara or Verona?, Bart. Fabius da Sandalo, Pucci or Dati coat of arms)
  17. Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, Cod. CCCCXLVII (290); CXII (Sulpicius Severus, note and text? by Maggio Maggi of Verona)
  18. Seville, Biblioteca Colombina, MS. 7. 2. 23 (Tito Livio Frulovisi); R. 3 (Petrus de Monte); R. 280 (Tito Livio Frulovisi); and an unidentified shelfmark (Poggio, Letters)

Folder 7: 'Florentine scribes ('New Research')', notes and images relating to the scribe of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 65. 32; and Filippo Corbizzi (signatures 'Φ. H'; 'Ph. H.')

Folder 8: 'Gothic', notes and images relating to manuscripts including

  1. Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, g. III. 20 (Varro, from Salutati’s Valliceliana manuscript, scribe Sebastianus de Papia, 1412)
  2. Cambridge, University Library, Add. 6685 (Old Testament in Italian, scribe Giovanni di Bartolomeo Niccholi, 1396, with Salviati arms / book stamp)
  3. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 7942 (Vergil, Salutati?, c.1392)
  4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ital. e. 6 (Dante, Divina commedia, Salutati?)
  5. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preuβischer Kulturbesitz, Hamilton 402 (Livy, scribe Ioh. Bartholi of Signa, fol. 2)
  6. Montpellier, Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine, H. 115 (Livy, scribe Ioh. Bartholi of Signa)
  7. New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 1002 (Cicero, De finibus, Tusc. Q., scribe Ioh. Bartholi of Signa, 1410 or 1411)
  8. London, British Library, Harl. 5291 (Cicero, De finibus, Academica et al, corrected by Poggio)
  9. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 38. 34 (Terence, signed 'Pierus ser Anthonii ser Ghelli de Floren.', 1397, with ex-libris of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici); Edili 212 (Cicero, De finibus, from Vespucci. The second scribe is Domenico Pollini)
  10. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1574 (Apuleius, from Manetti)
  11. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 15811 (Parisian manuscript, third quarter 13th century, 'spaces left for indecipherable abbreviations')

Folder 9: 'Other Scribes', notes and images relating to manuscripts including

  1. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 8537 (Cicero, Letters, scribe 'Redolfus Iohannis Misotis de Ferararia', 1415, headings apparently by Aretino, given by Zeno da Castiglione, bishop of Bayeux, to Duke Humfrey of Gloucester)
  2. Aberdeen, University Library, MS. 164 (Pomponius Mela, scribe Andreas Scorti)
  3. Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 471 (Cicero, scribe Spina Azzolino)
  4. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 48. 34 (scribe early Poggio or Traversari)
  5. Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. B. 4. 2609 (Lactantius, scribe Traversari)
  6. Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, MS. 811 (Luigi di ser Michaelis)
  7. Harvard, Houghton Library, Typ. 5 (Ptolemy, translated by Jacopo Angeli da Scarperia, 'some notes by Poggio')
  8. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud. Lat. 70, fol. 97r
  9. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 36. 23 (Catullus, scribe Nerucci); 50. 4 (Cicero, Orator, scribe Nerucci, heading by Lupi)
  10. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1495 (Cicero, Letters, 'probably identifiable as Andreas Scorti de S. Miniato, cf. Aberdeen 164')
  11. London, British Library, Burn. 160 (Cicero, De oratore, scribe B. Nerucci?)
  12. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 47. 34 (Pliny, Letters, addition attributed to Nerucci); Conv. soppr. 184
  13. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preuβischer Kulturbesitz, Hamilton 174 (Cicero, anonymous scribe)
  14. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. class. d. 37 (Cicero, De oratore, 1412-1413)

Dates

  • Creation: 1965-2001 and n.d. [c.1970-2000]

Extent

1 box (9 folders)

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/198

Former reference:

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