Correspondence of Albinia de la Mare, mainly letters received in her roles at the Bodleian Library and King's College London, concerning her research and assistance with the research of others

Title

Correspondence of Albinia de la Mare, mainly letters received in her roles at the Bodleian Library and King's College London, concerning her research and assistance with the research of others

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/72

Summary

Comprises:

Folder 1: 'U[nited] S[tates] Correspondence', letters, mainly relating to a visit to Washington in Jul-Aug 1974 to lecture on manuscripts and libraries in 15th century Italy at a conference organised by the Catholic University of America's Medieval and Byzantine Studies Program, and to other cities to investigate Renaissance manuscripts held in various libraries, 1967-1977

Folder 2: correspondence and papers relating to matters including requests to de la Mare for references, talks given, and assistance with research, 1973-1985 (= Closed).

Folder 3: correspondence and papers relating to matters including requests to de la Mare for references, her roles as a supervisor and examiner of students, and her application, 1976, to the University Grants Committee's Small Grants Research Fund in the Humanities for funding for a visit to Florence to investigate manuscripts of Florentine humanists, for the second fascicule of The Handwriting of the Italian Humanists, 1975-2000 and n.d. [c.1980] (= Closed).

Folder 4: 'Sammut, Duke Humfrey', correspondence and papers relating to the writing of a foreword by de la Mare for Dr. Alfonso Sammut's Unfredo, duca di Gloucester e gli umanisti italiani (Padova, 1980), describing manuscripts owned by Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, given to the Bodleian Library, and de la Mare's assistance with his research, 1979 and n.d. [c.1979]

Folder 5: correspondence and papers, including requests for references for students and related papers, 1982-1986 (= Closed).

Folder 6: 'Things to Answer', letters received, including enquiries from academics and lists of outstanding tasks, 1986-1995 and n.d. [c.1990]. File contains copy correspondence of Dr. G.F. Diercks relating to his new critical edition of the Cyprian 'Letters', and the manuscript, Salamanca 2608, Jul 1993 (in Dutch and German); a copy of a list by Professor P.O. Kristeller of manuscripts known to him that contain a work dedicated to a member of the Bentivoglio family or known to have belonged to it, [May 1994]; reproductions and a description of British Library Additional 16439, relating to Poliziano, Lorenzo de' Medici, and Dante, Jul 1994

Date

1967-2000 and n.d. [c.1979-1990]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (6 folders)