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Reference files of Albinia de la Mare, containing photographs and photocopies of manuscripts and related papers: 'Italian centres of manuscript production (Padua, Palermo, Fano, Pistoia, Pisa, Reggio Emilia, Rimini), Florentine scribes, and humanists', 1968-2005 and n.d. [c.1970-1997]

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Folder 1: 'Padua, misc[ellaneous], Misc[ellaneous] 'Roman' Manuscripts', 1985, including
  1. notes on Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS. 170; Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 1137 and Vat. lat. 1819, with letters received from the Universities of Perugia and Rome and Cambridge University Library concerning the Vatican manuscripts, Feb-Sep 1985
  2. list of 'Manuscripts securely attributable to Antonio Tophio'

Folder 2: 'Padua, misc[ellaneous], Named Scribes - small numbers', 1986-1997, comprising notes relating to
  1. Battista da Cingoli: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 9325 (Pliny, from Guarnerio d'Artegna, 1456)
  2. Cando Candi (d. 1447): London, British Library, Add. 14090 (Caesar, two scribes, the first apparently mature Candi); 18015 (Jerome, Vita Pauli eremite, Vita Malchi, followed by anonymous sermons. Lives copied by Candi. Arms of the Dotti or Dauli of Treviso, as in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud. Misc. 505)
  3. Battista Sansone da Padova: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. class. d. 8 (Ovid, Heroides)
  4. Pietro Dolfin: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 5252 (miscellaneous material on Ancona, Ragusa, copied from Ciriaco's manuscript in 1458 in Ancona, and 1464 in Rimini)
  5. Godefridus Besemaer of Utrecht: Milan, Biblioteca Braidense, AG. XI. 26 (Martial, Padua?, 1453, from Pietro Molin, with Molin arms and motto 'Regum Velle')

images of
  1. Venice, Archivio di Stato, Cons. X., Misti, filza 5, fol. 127 (letter)
  2. Günther and Ferrini, 1997 ( Vita Sancti Hieronimi and others, Veneto?, scribe Michael de Salvaticis?, after 1451)
  3. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chig. D. VI. 97 (Fra Ludovico Strassoldo of Forlì, Dialogue, dedication copy to the Emperor Sigismund, scribe Michael de Salvaticis)
  4. Sam Fogg, Sep 1993 (formerly Christie's, 8 Dec 1982, lot 122, Hegesippus, scribe Petrus Lomer, including correspondence with Bob Miller, Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts, concerning this manuscript, Sep 1997)
  5. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. F. 1. 13 (scribe of V. f. I)
  6. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 5714 (scribe of V. f. I)

Folder 3: 'Padua, misc[ellaneous], Early Italic Paduan scribes, not identified and identified', 1986-1998 and n.d. [c.1994], comprising
  1. images of Sotheby's, 19 Jun 1979, lot 45 (subsequently in the possession of Paul Getty, Junior?, a Stratfield Saye manuscript containing Horace and once in the Colegio Mayor of Cuenca)
  2. 'Dring Sozomeno'

images and notes relating to
  1. Metz, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 1210 (Lactantius)
  2. London, British Library, Arundel 212 (Ludovicus Lazzarelli, Liber de apparatu Patavini Astiludii, Pirckheimer coat of arms)
  3. New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, X. 878 / B. 23 (former Phillipps 996; Barbaro, Bruni, 1462, Neronis?)
  4. Lyon, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 168 (100) (from Podocataro)
  5. London, British Library, Egerton 1865 (Boccaccio, De genealogia deorum, late 15th century, Venice, ex-libris Giovanni Mauroceno)
  6. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert I, MS. 12172 (Livy, Dec. I, Padua?)
  7. Sotheby's, 29 Nov 1990, lot 22 (illumination)
  8. London, British Library, Harl. 4796 (Sicco Polentone, north eastern script, signed by Bartholomeo Fyato not., 1438)
  9. Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, D. 267 inf. (Propertius, and Appendix Vergiliana, a copy of Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Lat. Z. 443 (1912), 1453, and the exemplar of Deventer I. 82, etc.). See de la Mare and Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito (2009).
  10. Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Lat. 273 (Curtius Rufus, Venice or Padua?)
  11. Padua, Museo Civico, C. M. 525 / 5 (Chrysostom)
  12. Brescia, Biblioteca Queriniana, E. II. 6 (Eusebius-Jerome, Chronicle, Padua, mid-15th century)
  13. Paris, Louvre, Inv. R. F. 1512 (Album Jacopo Bellini)
  14. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS. 179 (Bruni, De primo bello punico, Padua, 1440s?)
  15. Cambridge, University Library, Nn. 3 45 (Juvenal)
  16. Maggs Bros, Cat. 838 (1956), no. 47, subsequently Cologny-Genève, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, MS. lat. 51 (Cicero, Speeches, scribe of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Class. Lat. 133 and 161; Medici coat of arms added; featured in the collection of Cardinal Giovanni Salviati)
  17. Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, f. IV. 16 (Cicero, Padua?, second quarter 15th century, coat of arms probably Zurita); g. IV. 15 (Cicero, Padua?, coat of arms of bishop Pedro Gonzalez Mendoza)
  18. Holkham Hall, MS. 390 (coat of arms of Francesco dal Legname)
  19. Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Rps. 2581 (Padua?, arms and script apparently the same as in Holkham Hall, MS. 383 and Genoa, Biblioteca Durazzo, B. III. 9)
  20. Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, XIII. F. 27 (Cicero, Letters, in Italian)
  21. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 5728 (Livy, Dec. I, scribe possibly Giovanfrancesco Marzi, with Paduan decoration. Annotated by Tiptoft and John Free.)
  22. collation of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. class. d. 5 and Lat. class. e. 17 (Tibullus, first poem)
  23. Padua, Museo Civico, C. M. 422 (humanistic miscellany, 1466)
  24. Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Lat. VI. 90 (3083); XI. 130 (4011) (Bernardo Bembo, Orat. to Cristoforo Moro, c.1462, Padua)
  25. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 438*
  26. Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS. 940
  27. Holkham Hall, MS. 382 (Cicero, De officiis, Veneto?, coat of arms of Della Torre of Venice)
  28. Sotheby's, 10 Dec 1973, lot 44

Folder 4: Palermo, Fano, Pistoia', images of manuscripts and notes, 1987 and n.d. [c.1987], comprising

'Palermo', images of London, British Library, Add. 11999 (Juvenal, Poggio, Facetiae, scribe Jacobus Martinus)

'Fano', images of
  1. London, British Library, Harl. 2711 (Sallust, Poggio, Invectiva, 1449)
  2. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chig. H. VI. 204 (note by Antonio Costanzi of Fano, fol. 77v); Ottob. lat. 1417 (Justin, scribe Johannes ser Niccolai de Castaldis de Fano)

'Pistoia', notes and images relating to
  1. Girolamo Zenoni: Pistoia, Archivio Capitolare, C. 56 (Augustine, Sermons); C. 55 (Fr. Martinus O.P.); C. 52 (humanistic miscellany); C. 68 (12th century Boethius, in part on palimpsest parchment from Pistoia); C. 69 (13th century Breviary of Sozomeno and Girolamo); C. 74 (Greek grammar); C. 136 (Valla, Elegantiae, vinestem border by Filippo Torelli); D. 22 ( Inventarium librorum Sacristie Sancti Zenonis, also including a list of books 'quos donavit dominus Hieronymus Zenonius')
  2. Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, MS. 103 (Dante in Latin by Matteo Ronto)

Folder 5: 'Pisa, Reggio Emilia, Rimini', images of manuscripts and notes, 1997-2000 and n.d. [c.1997], comprising

'Pisa'
  1. notes on Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, San Marco 281 (Quintilian, Institutiones, scribe Nicolaus de Chianigianis da Pisa, 1423, with notes, corrections, and Greek insertions by Vespucci and other notes in humanistic cursive script by Donato Acciaiuoli? or Poliziano)

'Reggio Emilia'
  1. images of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 38. 23 (Terence, 1436, Gabriel Donelis not. Reginae, from Sassetti); 52. 22 (scribe Curio Lancilotto Pasi, 1483)

'Rimini', images and papers relating to
  1. private collection, Nicolas Barker (Pseudo-Phalaris?, Letters, scribe Jacopo della Pergola?, Rimini?)
  2. ownership unknown, (Pseudo-Pliny, De viris illustribus, and two poems of Aurelius Trebanius to Sigismondo Malatesta and one to Basinio Basinii, Rimini? (photocopies enclosed in a letter from Claire Braunschweig, Paris, 13 Dec 1997)
  3. Scribe of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Class. Lat. 81: Florence, Biblioteca Marucelliana, MS. C. 251 (Basinius Parmensis, Astronomicon, possibly by this anonymous scribe); namepiece; Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS. 630 (Basinius Parmensis, Hesperis)
  4. Sigismundus Nicolai Alamanii: London, British Library, Add. 25452; Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Lat. 447 (α. S. 4 17); Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Ital. 288 (by the same scribe?); Laud. Lat. 116; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 7236; Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 281 (Valturius, De re militari)

Folder 6: 'Florentine Scribes - Francesco Contugi, Hubertus W', images and notes, 1968-2005

Folder 7: 'Humanists, Pietro Donato', images, n.d. [c.1970], relating to
  1. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preuβischer Kulturbesitz, Hamilton 254 (miscellany)
  2. Cesena, Biblioteca Malatestiana, D. VIII. 1 (Basel, 1436)
  3. Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. 661
  4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Misc. 302; 378 (Basel, 1436, copied for Donato); Canon. Pat. Lat. 193 (Eusebius-Jerome, Chronicle)
  5. St. Gallen, Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana, MS. 298
  6. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 1368 (copied in Basel, 1436)

Dates

  • Creation: 1968-2005 and n.d. [c.1970-1997]

Extent

1 box (7 folders)

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/201

Former reference:

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

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