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Reference files of Albinia de la Mare, containing photographs and photocopies of manuscripts and related papers: 'Florentine Script, Gothic and early humanistic', 1969-2000 and n.d. [c.1985-2000]]

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Folder 1: 'Florence, hum[anistic] early, named scribes or anon[ymous], first quarter 15th century, occasionally slightly later', relating to
  1. 'A.S.': Sotheby's, 8 Dec 1975, lot 61 (Cicero, De officiis, 'A.S.')
  2. Alexander Arigus: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Gaddi 169 (Phocas, 1411-1421, on paper, ex-libris Agnolo di Zanobi Gaddi)
  3. Antonio degli Agli?: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Conv. soppr. 184
  4. Antonius Iohannis Bracchensis: Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 575 (Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium)
  5. Franciscus Antonii de Sancto Miniato: Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 519
  6. Leonardo Bruni?: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1368 (Demosthenes, De Corona, in margins Chrysoloras?)
  7. Ser Gabriele di Francesco de Parma: Sotheby's, 21 Nov 1972, lot 555 (Petrarch, Trionfi, and Dante, written in the Stinche, Florence)
  8. Corbinelli scribe: Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, MS. K. 436 (Plutarch, translated by Bruni, and Life of Cicero, Bruni, c.1405-1410)
  9. Hieronymus Mediolanensis: San Marino, Huntington Library, HM. 1033 (Aristotle, Ethics, translated by Bruni)
  10. Iohannes Francisci Iohannis de Sancto Quiricho: Chicago, University Library, MS. 704 (Statius)
  11. Lysander Aurispa: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 1202 (Tibullus)
  12. Marcus Quartarius Parmensis: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. J. VII. 19 (Chrysostom, Adversus vituperatores vitae monasticae, translated by Traversari, with San Marco note, 1420 or later)
  13. Pirrus de Noha: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Arch. S. Pietro H. 31 (Pomponius Mela)
  14. Redolfus Johannis Misotis da Ferrara [Ferararia]: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 8537 (Cicero)
  15. Spina Azzolini: Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 471 (Cicero)
  16. Sebastianus da Pistoia: Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, g. III. 20 (Varro, Florence, 1412)
  17. Stephanus Bonitius: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 76. 4 (Cicero, De finibus, Academica)
  18. Valens de Nuremberga: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Class. Lat. 306 (Curtius Rufus, 1425)
  19. Vespasianus domini Manni de Tuderto: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 46. 9
  20. Scribe of London, British Library, Harl. 4806: namepiece ([Pseudo]-Cicero, De inventione, Rhetorica ad Herennium, annotated by Valla); Radaeli, Milan, 1991, acquired by Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Justin, belonged to Manetti)
  21. 'Florence, early unnamed': London, British Library, Harl. 5291 (fols. 10v-11r, 60v-61r corrected by Poggio): Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 1413 (apparently palimpsest / reused papal documents); Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, IV. B. 7 (Cicero, Orat.)

Folder 2: 'Florence, early dated hum[anistic] manuscripts, singletons', relating to
  1. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 903
  2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. class. d. 37 (1412-1413)
  3. Cambridge, University Library, Nn. 2. 33 (1415)
  4. Florence, Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Capitani della parte Guelfa, Statutes of 1419, Rosso #3, with preface composed by Leonardo Bruni
  5. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1516 (Cicero, Opera phil., with annotations by Pietro da Montagnana, 1426)
  6. London, British Library, Add. 22762 (Antonius Aretinus, Nove regulae de constructionibus, 1426)
  7. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1662 (Pseudo-Quintilian, Declamationes, 1428)

Folder 3: 'Florence, Gothic - late 14th-early 15th century', relating to
  1. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 874 (Livy, Dec. III)
  2. London, British Library, Add. 21246 (Boccaccio, Filostrato)
  3. Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 592 (Horace, Epist.)
  4. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 38. 16 (Terence, with decoration in style of Bartolomeo Varnucci, and in rather uneven, not familiar humanistic script, 1430s?)
  5. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ital. e. 6
  6. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 38. 34 (Terence, signed ser Pierus Anthonii ser Chelli of Florence, 1397, ex-libris of Piero de' Medici); Tempi 1 (Dante, Divina commedia, decorated in the style of the Angeli)
  7. Christie's, 24 Oct 1993, lot 18, Phillipps 11865 (Ovid, scribe Belloncio di Gherardo, 1393)
  8. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 24 sin. 2 (Terence, c.1400-1410, decorated in the style of the Angeli, coat of arms erased); Conv. soppr. 184 (Quintilian, 'hand c Corbinelli?'); S. Croce 22 sin. 5 (Quintilian, 'early humanistic'); Plut. 34. 45 (Homer, Odyssey, translated by Leonzio Pilato); 90 sup. 41¹; 90 sup. 41²; 90 sup. 41³ (Salutati, Opera); Ashb. 1702
  9. Yale, Beinecke Library, MS. 114
  10. Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 1166 (Nic. Luna to Giovanni Aretino?), including a letter from Martin [Davies], 14 Oct 1987, concerning this manuscript
  11. Cambridge, University Library, Nn. 3. 7 (Sallust)
  12. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, S. Croce 23 sin. 4, and 23 sin. 8 (Cicero, De oratore, 'Florence, semi-Gothic, earlyish, c.1425-40'); Plut. 38. 12 (Statius, Ovid, early 15th century, 1418, but date altered, two scribes, coat of arms Macinghi)
  13. London, British Library, Burn. 250 (Seneca, Tragedies, Bartholomeo at San Gimignano, 1387, addenda at beginning and end in Florentine Gothic of Salutati type. Copies include part of a letter of Salutati on the author.)
  14. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Conv. soppr. 204 (Dante with Comm. of Francesco da Buti, from the Badia, and said to have come there from Ser Andrea Nacchianti); S. Croce 18 sin. 4 (Statius, from Tedaldo della Casa)
  15. London, British Library, Add. 11986; Burn. 156 (Cicero, Philippics, Topica, Sinonima, De differentiis, ex-libris Roberto de' Rossi); Harl. 2517 (Boethius, scribe Franciscus); 2769 (Ovid, Metamorphoses, ex-libris 'Iste liber est conventus Sancte Marie [?]'; 4949 (Hilary, from Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence); 5421 (Boccaccio, Bucolica, Florence, 1408, 'per me Nicolaum del sp[?]')
  16. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, S. Croce 26 sin. 5
  17. London, British Library, Harl. 1322 (Aristotle, Ethics, translated by Bruni, with initials c.1430-1440, and ex-libris 'Angeli')
  18. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1672 (Seneca, 1410, apparently by the scribe of Oxford, Bodleian Library, D'Orville 89 (Sallust))

Folder 4: 'Florence, first quarter 15th century, app[arent] singles, unidentified', relating to
  1. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 21. 4 (Lactantius); 53. 14 (Festus, c.1415-1420, with early ex-libris of Lorenzo de' Medici); 78. 11 (addition on fols. 61r and 61v of Salutati, De nobilitate, scribe Niccoli? [del. Stefano Bonitius?]); 89 inf. 25 ( Epitomes to Livy, ex-libris Matteo di Simone Strozzi); Conv. soppr. 13 (Cicero, Speeches, from the Badia fiorentina); Edili 204 (Vergil); Edili 206 (Cicero, Opera rhetorica, with curious initials, and coat of arms cut out); S. Croce 22 sin. 5 (Quintilian, from Sebastiano Bucelli); 23 sin. 4 (Cicero, De oratore, from Bucelli); San Marco 272 (Cicero, Academica, et al., from Niccoli, list of contents in his hand. 'Cencio de' Rustici, cf. Berlin, [Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preuβischer Kulturbesitz,] Lat. fol. 609'); Strozzi 37 (Cicero, Opera, Florence, before 1415?)
  2. Glasgow, University Library, Gen. 212 (Florus)
  3. Harvard, Houghton Library, Lat. 266 (Aristotle, Ethics, 1420s?); Typ. 5 (Ptolemy, Geographia, in Latin, with annotations by Poggio)
  4. London, British Library, Burn. 154 (Cicero, Philippics, with Gonzaga arms added in 1433 or later); Harl. 2747 (Justin, illumination c.1410-1420); 3270 ([Pseudo-]Aristotle, Ethics, Econ., c.1420? or later)
  5. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud. Misc. 531 (Bruni, DPBP)
  6. Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale IV. D. 32 (Terence)
  7. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 5723 (Curtius Rufus); 8537 (Cicero, Letters, scribe Redolfus Iohannis Misotis de Ferararia?, 1415, with headings apparently by Giovanni Aretino, and Florentine illumination, from Duke Humfrey); 9678 (Curtius Rufus, first quarter 15th century, with Neapolitan illumination apparently added); 10300 (Cicero, Partitiones oratoriae, et al., c.1425-1430)
  8. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS. 811 (from Sozomeno)
  9. Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, MS. 599 (Bruni, De militia, coat of arms apparently added)
  10. Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, A. 25, part 2 (Chrysostom, Ad vituperatores vitae monasticae, translated by Traversari, c.1440 or slightly earlier)
  11. San Marino, Huntington Library, HM. 1027 (Cicero, De oratore, c.1415-1425)
  12. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Arch. S. Pietro H. 24 (Cicero, Speeches, c.1430-1440 or a little earlier, arms of Cardinal Giordano Orsini added); Ottob. lat. 1991 (Cicero, Speeches, Hieronymus?. List of contents in Niccolò Niccoli’s cursive hand, 'ident[ified] by M.D. R[eeve]', after 1415-1417); Pal. lat. 974 (Plato, Phaedo and Gorgias, translated by Bruni); Pal. lat. 1471 (Cicero); 1472 (Cicero, De oratore, et al, at least two scribes); 1486 (Cicero, Speeches, first hand); 1493; 1495 (Cicero, Letters, first scribe apparently Andreas Scorti, second scribe Tani?, annotated by Bruni? and Manetti); Ross. 506 (Terence, 1414); Vat. lat. 1720 (Cicero, Brutus, Tanaglia); 1863 (Tacitus); 2903 (Cicero, Speeches, early 15th century, 'not Guarino', 'acc[ording] to M.D. R[eeve] manuscript datable bet[ween] 1415 and 1417’); 3238 (Cicero, Brutus, Orator, De oratore, with decoration by Bartolomeo Varnucci, some annotations by mature Pomponio Leto); 3403 (Petronius)
  13. Yale, Beinecke Library,, Marston 10 (Demosthenes, et al., translated by Bruni, Florence?, 1420s); 278 (second scribe copied fols. 65-108v, mid 1420s)
  14. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Class. Lat. 274 (Giacomo Curlo, after 1446?)
  15. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 8292 (Juvenal, bought in Florence in 1421, with original ex-libris of Bart. di ser Domenico Silvestri of Florence)
  16. Rome, Fondazione Camillo Caetani (Dante, Divina commedia)
  17. Christie's, 7 Dec 1988, lot 32, former Phillipps 12278 (Cicero, De officiis)
  18. New York, Gordan Collection, MS. 74 (Leonardo Bruni, Letters). Former Phillipps 1042, this manuscript is now at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania; 4 (Cicero, Opera). Former Phillipps 16285, Maggs, Cat. 542 (1930), no. 122
  19. Sotheby's, 11 Dec 1961, lot 190 (Cicero, Topica, Partitiones oratoriae, De oratore)

Dates

  • Creation: 1969-2000 and n.d. [c.1985-2000]]

Extent

1 box (4 folders)

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/199

Former reference:

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

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