Reference files of Albinia de la Mare, containing photographs and photocopies of manuscripts and related papers: 'Notes and reproductions miscellaneous collections (sales, B[ritish] L[ibrary] et al.), (early) humanistic script, Florence, Milan, North-East, humanists'

Title

Reference files of Albinia de la Mare, containing photographs and photocopies of manuscripts and related papers: 'Notes and reproductions miscellaneous collections (sales, B[ritish] L[ibrary] et al.), (early) humanistic script, Florence, Milan, North-East, humanists'

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/168

Summary

Comprises:

Folder 1: 'Misc[ellaneous] Xeroxes, mainly from sale cat[alogue]s to sort and index', images of (early) humanistic script, Florence, and extracts from publications, 1997 and n.d. [c.1990-1995], relating to

Dr. Günther, Antiquariat, Hamburg, Recent Acquisitions. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, and B.P. Ferrini, Akron, Ohio, 1997 (Sophronius, Eusebius-Jerome, Letters), former J.P. Getty Museum, MS. Ludwig XI. 2; Vita Sancti Hieronimi and others, Verona, after 1451)

Sotheby's, 8 Jul 1970 (Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Treatise on architecture)

Sotheby's, 11 Dec 1979; 12 Jul 1971; 6 Dec 1971, including lot 27 (Cicero, Speeches)

Sotheby's, 8 Jul 1970 (Pius II, Letter to Sultan Mahomet II); 2 May 1979 (William of Auvergne); 19 Jun 1979 (Buondelmonti; and Dati, Sphera); 10 Jul 1968 ( L'arte di navigare); 11 Jul 1978 (Giovanni Tommaso Moncada); 10 Dec 1969, lot 56; 2 May 1979 (Aristotle, De celo et mundo, translated by Argyropoulos); 11 Dec 1968; 21 Nov 1972 (Vergil; and Lope de Espejo / Lupo de Specchio); 11 Dec 1972 (Boethius); 11 Dec 1979; 24 Jun 1980, lot 84; 9 Jul 1969; 10 Dec 1969, lot 6; 21 Nov 1972, lot 565

photocopies of extracts from A. Millares Carlo, Paleografia Española (either from the Barcelona 1929 or Madrid 1983 edition); and from A. Liublinskaia, Latinskaia paleografiia (Moscow, 1969), tav. 54 ('see Oxford Bodleian Library, 25773 e. 61')

Christie's, no date of sale, three non humanistic, 'prob[ably] Florentine' manuscripts, with a letter from Kay [Sutton] of Christie's requesting advice on their date and place of origin, n.d. [c.1995]

Christie's, Feltrinelli sale, 1997, autographs of Cosimo, Giuliano, and Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, with a letter from Kay [Sutton] of Christie's requesting advice on autographs, 10 Oct 1997

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 1905 (Suetonius, signed N. de P. de Fer., 1466, north-eastern?); 2049 (Strabo)

Christie's, 24 Nov 1993 (Sallust)

photocopy of extract from Bredford-Radaeli, IV Mostra del libro e della stampa antichi (1993) (Antoninus Florentinus)

photocopy of extract from D. Coy, ed. European Manuscripts IX-XV Centuries in the Chapin Library and the Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, 1977), exhibition catalogue, no. 30, plate XIV (Jerome, Flores ex veris dictis)

Folder 2: 'Florence, to index and put away', images of non-humanistic manuscripts from sale catalogues, n.d. [c.1995-1997], relating to

Sotheby's, 1 Dec 1959, Dyson Perrins Collection, lots 80, 83, and 88

Sotheby's, 29 Nov 1960, Dyson Perrins Collection, lot 132

Sotheby's, 10 Jul 1967, lot 90

Sotheby's, 9 Jul 1973, lot 50

Sotheby's, 19 Jun 1990, lot 122

Sotheby's, 5 Dec 1995, lot 40

Christie's, 3 Dec 1997, Feltrinelli sale, lots 115 and 175

Folder 3: 'Photos etc. for indexing and filing, mainly Florentine', images, notes and papers, 1978-1985 and n.d. [c.1980-1990], relating to

Sotheby's, 9 Jul 1969, lot 35

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 3429 (Tacitus, autograph P. Leto); Ottob. lat. 1732 (scribe Questenberg)

'Hidden Friends', an exhibition of the Comites Latentes Collection of illuminated manuscripts, Sotheby's, Sep 1985 (flyer only)

Sotheby's, 20 Jun 1978, lot 2992 ( Instrumenta feudorum castri Sone, Verona, 1505, former Abbey J. A. 7387, now University of Pennsylvania, University Library, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 48)

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 2259 (autograph Petrarch)

Sotheby's, 24 Jun 1980, lot 67 (Ovid, Naples?); 11 Dec 1979, lot 77 (Ferial Psalter, scribe Francesco de Urbana, 1488)

Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. 2263 (Dante); 1080 (Dante)

Christie's, 2 Jul, no year [c.1990] (Missal with Cornaro coat of arms)

Wrocław, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, MS. Akc. 1949 / 60

Sweet Briar College, Virginia, MS. 1995.016 (Prayer book, single leaf, Bartolomeo Sanvito, late 15th century, Bolognese?)

Harrow School Collection (Bernard, Augustine)

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 68. 3 (or 61. 3?); Gaddi reliq. 5 (Tortelli, De ortographia); MS. Antinori 18

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Add. B. 110; Canon. Pat. Lat. 210; 229

Oxford, St John's College, MS. 35

Oxford, Taylor Institution, MS. 8° It. 4 (Petrarch, Trionfi)

Princeton, University Library, MS. 123 (Vergil)

Trieste, Biblioteca Civica, Sez. Petr. Piccol. Rosset. I. 2; I. 10 (Strozzi coat of arms); I. 33 (miscellany)

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 1136 (Lucretius); 2834; Pal. lat. 1603 (Manetti, De illustribus longaevis); Urb. lat. 916 (Poggio, Vita Nic. Piccinini); Vat. lat. 1565 (Petrus de Traiecto); Pal. lat. 878; 1659; 1011

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 291; 3303; 2464

Yale, Beinecke Library, MS. 76; 87; 144

Nico Israel Rare Books, Amsterdam, Cat. 22 (1980), no. 3 (Aristotle, scribe Altadellus)

Radaeli, Milan, Mar 1981, (with ex-libris of Juan Valero; Gaspare de Verona, Regulae de contructionibus; and Guarino, De diphthongis)

Sotheby's, Dec 1903, no. 558 (Huth Petrarch scribe); 14 Jul 1981, lot 93 (Gregory, Dialogues, for Bartolomeo Visconti); Dec 1983 (Sallust)

London, British Library, K.9.a.12

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, L. 2037-1931; MS. Salting 1223

Phillipps 2252, marginal note on fol. 100

Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Codex Atlanticus

Ravenna, Biblioteca Classense, MS. 428 (Agnolo di Jacopo de' Dinuzi)

London, British Library, Milanese manuscripts, Add. 38125 (scribe of Huth Petrarch); 12053 (Cornazzano); 14817 (Bernardo Capitanei); 21413; 21984 (Cicero, De senectute, signed Hippolita Sforza); 34294 (Sforza Book of Hours)

London, British Library, Add. 21908 (Tibullus, north eastern?); 19586 (Cicero, Opera phil., Speeches); 14800 (Manetti, Bruni); 18784 (Petrarch, Rime e Trionfi); Burn. 203; Harl. 6500 (Leo, Sermons); Add. 10769 (Bernard); 10773 (Jerome, Letters, in Italian, not Florentine); Harl. 5335; Add. 38066; 22787 (Gregory, Dialogues, in Italian); 22775 (Cassian, Collations, in Italian); Egerton 828 (Pomponius Mela); 1985 (manuscript on cookery); Add. 11896; 12009 (Suetonius); 20054 (Pliny, Letters); 26779 (Bruni, De bello italico adv. Gothos gesto); Burn. 74; Add. 16375 (Letters of Pseudo-Phalaris); 25450 (Florus); Egerton 1996 (Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus); Add. 16376 ( Moralium dogma philosophorum, probably Florentine); 19586 (Cicero, Opera rhetorica); 21063 (Tortelli, Vita Sancti Athanasii, dedicated to Eugenius IV); 37079; Harl. 6327 (Cicero, Academica); Egerton 1867 (Frontinus, Naples or Rome); 2516 (Cicero and Apuleius, possibly from Simon of Arezzo)

former Cockerell Vergil, sold at Sotheby's, 3 Apr 1957, lot 14 (includes report by de la Mare, 8 Apr 1981)

manuscript for Lorenzo Strozzi 'Seen at Sotheby's, 2/12/81'

'Wrocław [copies of manuscripts] ordered'

Acquisti e doni exhibition, Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Sep 1982, including notes on Martelli 10; 25; 73; Acquisti e doni 672; 673; 682; 687; 688; 689; 775 (several are Florentine manuscripts)

Vergil exhibition, Vatican, 1981-1982

Pietro Donato, and Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preuβischer Kulturbesitz, Hamilton 254 (Festus Rufus, Frontinus, Letters of Plutarch to Trajan, Index librorum grecorum and others)

'[Mgr J.] Ruysschaert, 5th Lyell lecture'

London, British Library, illuminated incunabula

humanistic manuscripts reproduced in S. Samek Ludovici, Francesco Petrarca. I Trionfi illustrati da codici precedenti del secolo XIII al secolo XVI, 2 vols. (Rome, 1978)

manuscripts including Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Nouv. acq. lat. 626; Siena, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, L. V. 26; Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4498; Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, I. 29 sup.; Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 5122; Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, S. III. 27

items 'to check'

folios 11, 31 and 72 of an unidentified manuscript

Date

1978-1997 and n.d. [c.1980-1997]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (3 folders)