Reference files of Albinia de la Mare, containing photographs and photocopies of manuscripts and related papers: 'Italian centres of manuscript production (Naples)', 1982-1997 and n.d. [c.1990-1995]
Comprises:
Folder 1: 'Miscellaneous, and scribes Naples', notes and images, 1987-1991 and n.d. [c.1990], including materials relating to
- Budapest, Egyetemi Könyvtár, Lat. 11 (Caesar)
- Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, S. III. 21 (ex-libris '… de Buda')
- London, British Library, Add. 11914 (Caesar, Curlo?); 11970 (Ovid, Fasti, scribe Angelus, from Tomacelli); 14781 (owner Rod. Brancalupo?); Burn. 343 (Pontano, Partenopeius); Egerton 1070
- Los Angeles, University of California, Special Collections, MS. 170 / 593 ( Δ. 170 / 593?, former Sotheby's, 5 Jul 1976, lot 61, Pseudo-Phalaris, Letters, scribe Pietro Ursuleo)
- Los Angeles, J.P. Getty Museum, Ludwig IX. 12 (Book of Hours, scribe Altadell)
- New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 403 (Cicero, Letters); 425 (Appian, translated by Decembrio, scribe Pietro Ursuleo?)
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Liturg. 263 (Book of Hours, use of Rome, humanistic script); Rawl. G. 27 (Cicero, Ep. fam., selection)
- Padua, Biblioteca del Seminario, MS. 229 (Plutarch, Life of Demetrius, Naples, 1461, by the scribe of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. G. 131)
- Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS. 558
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 7889 (Plautus, scribe Ursuleo?); 11289 (Demosthenes, Orations, translated by Bruni)
- Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1760 (Guarino, Ars grammatica, Bartolomeo da Sulmona, Ars grammatica, scribe Quiricus de Prato?); Vat. lat. 8697 (Pontano, De fortitudine, De principe)
- Sam Fogg, Cat. 15 (1992), no. 16 (Jacobus de Cessolis, Ischia, 1419)
- Woodland Park, Colorado, private collection James Hayes (Book of Hours, Ursuleo?)
- L. Witten, Hodson manuscript (Phillipps 10612, Narciso Verduno, Caedula de matrimonio, scribe early Giovan Marco Cinico?)
- New York, W.H. Schab, Cat. 46 (1968 or 1969), no. 1 (former De Marinis Collection, Florence, subsequently N. Israel, 1980, no. 3, and Quaritch, May 1986, now Collection Martin Schøyen?, containing Aristotle, scribe Altadell)
- former Astor A. 26, sold Sotheby's, 21 Jun 1988, lot 62 (from Cardinal Giovanni?, probably from Ferrante, scribe Venceslaus Crispus)
Folder 2: 'Naples, Pietro Ursuleo, Psalter fragments et al.', papers and images, 1982 and n.d. [c.1982-1987], relating to 'leaves from a dismembered Psalter' by Ursuleo, including images of
- Canberra, National Library, MS. 4052 / T. 106-7
- Sotheby's, 3 Dec 1976, lot 64
- Maggs Bros. Bulletin no. 10, Jun 1979, no. 21
Folder 3: 'Naples, Unidentified scribes', papers and images, 1986-1997 and n.d. [c.1990-1995], including materials relating to
- Berkeley, University of California, Bancroft Library, MS. 61 (Cicero, De amicitia, De senectute, annotations Pontano?)
- Budapest, Egyetemi Könyvtár, Lat. 4 (Quintus Curtius, scribe Angelus?); 32 (Vitruvius, scribe Milanese?)
- Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, O. II. 13 (Livy, Dec. I); S. II. 19 (Vergil)
- Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 35. 36 (Lippo di Mattheo di Giorgio Brandolini al Magnifico, Naples, between 1472 and 1478); 77, 10 (Aurelio Lippo Brandolini)
- Florence, Fondazione Horne, Inv. 2790 n. 4 / 10 (Alberti)
- Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 831 (Bartolomeo Facio, Rer. gest. regis Alphonsi)
- Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, Rep. I. fol. 5 (Plautus)
- Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, Res. 36 ( Notitia Dignitatum)
- Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VI. C. 2 (Jerome, Letters); VI.C. 4 (Cyprian, Letters)
- New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Plimpton 140 (Valla, De lingua latina)
- New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 867 (Pontano, Gregorio da Tiferno)
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 6292 (Phorphyrius, et al., scribe Iohannes Mattheus Caputanis)
- San Marino, Huntington Library, HM. 1041 (Liturgical Psalter or Liber hymnorum)
- Trieste, Biblioteca Civica, MS. I. 10 (Petrarch, Trionfi)
- Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1647 (Servius on Vergil, scribe of Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preuβischer Kulturbesitz, Hamilton 169)
- Valencia, Cathedral, MS. 69 (Valla)
- Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Phil. gr. 4 (Aristotle, Ethics)
- Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Gud. lat. 85 (Porphyrio on Horace)
- Christie's, 25 Jun 1986 (Quintilian)
- Sotheby's, 2 May 1979, lot 1103 (Honeyman Collection, Giannozzo Manetti, De terremotu); 5 Dec 1994 (manuscript written in script imitating Beneventan minuscule)
- Sotheby's, 21 Jun 1994, lot 85 (Psalter with Canticles and Litany, Gothic script, Antonellus Pastor of Montefusco?)
Folder 4: papers and images, 1986-1992 and n.d. [c.1990], relating to the work of the scribes
- 'Angelus (Naples), attrib[uted], signed': Budapest, Egyetemi Könyvtár, Lat. 11 (Caesar, 'signed'); Naples, Biblioteca Gerolamini, CF. III. 4 (Themistius, Paraphrases phisicae Aristotelis, Hermolao Barbaro interprete, 'Angelus?'); New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 425 ( Epitome, Appian, in Italian, by P.C. Decembrio, 'Angelus?'); San Marino, Huntington Library, HM. 1038 (Ovid, Opera var., 'Naples, Clemens Salernitanus, pocket book'); Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1951 (Pliny, Naturalis Historia, with Tomacelli arms, 'Angelus?'); Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 34 (Caesar, 'Angelus?'); Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, O. II. 1 (Aristotle, Politics, translated by Bruni); London, British Library, Add. 11970 (Ovid, Fasti, signed 'Angelus'); San Marino, Huntington Library, HM. 50 (Juvenal, Persius); Valencia, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 396 (840) (Caesar, signed 'Angelus'); Abbey J. A. 3213 (Ausonius); manuscript with Radaeli, Milan, Mar 1971 (Panormita); Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. hist. b. 1 ( epist. Ferr. rex. Siciliae, 'Angelus?')
- Bernardinus: Valencia, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 749 (Polybius)
- Clemens Salernitanus: Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. 63 5 Aug. 8°; Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, IV. E. 25 (Vergil); London, British Library, Harl. 2694 (Lucretius, De rerum natura); Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 927 (Ovid, Metamorphoses); San Marino, Huntington Library, HM. 1038 (Ovid, Opera var., various hands?); B.S. Cron Collection, Add. MS. 7 (Abbey J. A. 3183, Martial); Sotheby's, 25 Jun 1985, lot 83 (Giovanni Pontano, De fortitudine); Messina, Biblioteca Universitaria, F. V. 5 (Bruni, dedicated to Martin V); Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 415; Barb. lat. 154; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 82 (Agathias, De bello gothorum, translated by Christoforus Persona); Valencia, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 412; 747; 787; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 8078 (Calderini's Comm. on Juvenal); Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, I. III. 10; New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 415 (Pseudo-Phalaris, Letters, Curlo?)
- Elius Franciscus Marchisius parthenopeius: Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preuβischer Kulturbesitz, Lat. 8° 71 (Dictys Cretensis)
Folder 5: 'Scribes, Naples', papers and images, 1982-1986 and n.d. [c.1980-1990], relating to the work of the scribes
- Masullus: Chicago, Newberry Library, MS. +97 (Plato, De republica, translated by Antonio Cassarino Siculo)
- Mennio: Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 618 (Diodorus Siculus, translated by Poggio, and Tacitus, Germania); Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 1659 (Cyprian, Letters, et al.); 2231 (vol. 1, Gregory, Moralia in Job); Valencia, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 292 (738) (Quintilian); 388 (828) (Aristotle, Ethics, translated by Bruni); Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 3 (Strabo); 49 (Tacitus)
- Pietro Ippolito da Luni (P. Hippolytus Lunensis): Sotheby's, 21 Jun 1994, lot 88 (Publius Vegetius Renatus, Mulomedicina); Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 3297 (Homerus, Latin translation, for Bernardino Carafa); London, British Library, Add. 15270; 15271; 15272; 15273 (Scotus, Comm. on the Sentences); Messina, Biblioteca Universitaria, F. N. 7 (Caesar, in Italian translation, P.C. Decembrio); New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 449 (Onosander); London, British Library, Add. 11912 (Lucretius, De rerum natura); Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preuβischer Kulturbesitz, Phill. 1700 ('P. Hippolytus of Luni?'); Harvard University Library, MS. Typ. 179; London, British Library, Add. 15270; 15273; 15654; Harl. 3481; 3482; Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, Res. 206; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 813 ('P. Hippolytus Lunensis?'); 3147; 3063; 7810; Ital. 1053 ('Ippolito of Luni?'); Stockholm, Royal Library, Cod. Holm. V. u. 2; Valencia, Biblioteca Universitaria, 408; 789; 816 (all queried, 'P. Hippolytus Lunensis?'); Valletta, Royal Malta Library, MS. XX ('signed'); Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. Lat. 2075 ('P. Hippolytus Lunensis?'); Vat. lat. 3297; 3551; private collection, England, former H.P. Kraus, Cat. 69 (1954) no. 72 (Publius Vegetius, Mulomedicina); Abbey J. A. 4220
- Rusticus: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Nouv. acq. lat. 1754 (Pontano, De obedientia ad Robertum Principem Salernitanum)
- Pietro and Virgilio Ursuleo ('Cf. also Neapolitan scribes, Bernardinus, very close in style to P[ietro]'): Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 879; 1740 (Boethius); Ottob. Lat. 1560; Vat. lat. 167; 3009; 3401; Urb. lat. 1384; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 6262A; 7804 (Pseudo-Quintilian, Declamationes); 6262A; Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Q. 1 7 (Bartolomeo Facio, Rer. gest. regis Alphonsi); Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 7889 (Plautus); Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 41 (Psalterium triplex, which belonged to Gianozzo Manetti); Urb. lat. 1185 (Panormita, In alfonsi regis dicta aut facta memoratu digna); 'Panormita, De dictis et factis, with Radaeli, Milan, Mar 1981'; Stockholm, Royal Library, Va. 15; Canberra, National Library of Australia, MS. 4052 / T. 107; Sotheby's, Honeyman sale, part III, 2 May 1979, lot 1103; Valencia, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 413; 746; 860; 'Christie's Foyle Cicero, Tusc. Q.'; The Hague, Royal Library, MS. 131 F. 18; London, British Library, Add. 22316; Burn. 149
Dates
- Creation: 1982-1997 and n.d. [c.1990-1995]
Extent
1 box (5 folders)
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. 18746/204
Former reference:
Archive A. C. de la Mare, sect. II., cont. LXXXII [part]
Creator
- From the Collection: de la Mare | Albinia Catherine | 1932-2001 | librarian and palaeographer (Person)
Repository Details
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