Reference files of Albinia de la Mare: 'Miscellaneous reproductions, lectures'

Title

Reference files of Albinia de la Mare: 'Miscellaneous reproductions, lectures'

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/119

Summary

Comprises:

Folder 1: pages showing images of manuscripts from sale catalogues including Maggs, De Marinis and Sotheby's catalogues, mainly 1930-1938, some with descriptions, and related notes, 1930-1938 and n.d. [c.1930-1970]

Folder 2: 'Lorenzo Ghiberti', correspondence with Judi Hurd, Vermont, Feb-Oct 2000, concerning Lorenzo Ghiberti's Commentarii in Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, with photocopies of the manuscript and of Siena, Archivio del Duomo, letter of Ghiberti to an operaio of Siena Cathedral, 1427

Folder 3: 'Lectures', drafts of lectures and related papers, 1986-1991, comprising

Columbia R[are] B[ook] S[chool], Jul 1986, 'Illumination and illuminators in Florence, 15th cent[ury]', including 'Rome', 'Early Venice / Padua', 'Ferrara', 'Milan', 'Genoa', 'Naples', 'Padua and Venice c.1450-1465' and 'Sanvito'

Padua, 1987, 'Development of Florentine humanistic decoration', including 'Venice and Padua'; 'Decoration Styles Verona, Ferrara, Mantua, Bologna'; and notes on Torelli, Bartolomeo Varnucci, Gioacchino, Giovanni Varnucci, Zanobi Strozzi, Francesco d'Antonio

Oxford, F[riends] o[f the] B[odleian], 2 Nov 1988, 'Classical Manuscripts brought to Oxford in the fifteenth century'

King's College London lectures, 1989-1990, including 'Italian Humanistic Manuscripts', 'Florentine illuminators', and notes on the Hamilton Master, Attavante, Boccardino, Antonio di Niccolò, and Francesco Rosselli

King's College London, 1991, 'Early humanistic manuscripts in the Veneto'

Folder 4: 'Livy (to ICS July 1992)', draft of a lecture on 'Italian 15th century scribes and their copies of Livy' and related papers, including descriptions of Oxford, New College, MS. 277, 278, 279; Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. F. 1. 11; London, British Library, Burn. 200; and short notes on manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and the British Library, and Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Banco rari 35, [1992]

Folder 5: 'Lectures', drafts of lectures and related papers, 1978-1988 and n.d. [c.1970-1980], including

'Vespasiano da Bisticci, Florentine Bookseller' n.d. [c.1970]

'Liverpool Bibl[iographical] Soc[iety] May 1978, 'Scribes and illuminators in 15th century Florence'', [1978]

notes on 'Flor[entine] hum[anistic] decoration', Feb 1978

King's College London, 21 May 1981, 'New Thoughts on Some Florentine Scribes of the Later Fifteenth Century', [1981]

notes on scribes; 'Two very similar cursive scribes of the second half of the 15th cent[ury], [the] Scribe of the former Abbey Psalter [and the] Scribe of the BM Statius'; and 'The Scribes of Cardinal Giovanni of Aragon', n.d. [c.1980]

Folder 6: 'Manuscripts of Boccaccio, Genealogia [deorum gentilium / De genealogia deorum]', photocopies of manuscripts of Boccaccio, Genealogia, received from [Vittorio] Zaccaria, 1984, Sigla L3, L5, L6, L7, L8, Vu, Vp, Vp1, Vp2, and including copies of Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, D. 93 sup., fols. 163v-167r, containing orations and sermons by Francesco Barbaro and Tadeo Quirini, n.d. [c.1984]

Date

1930-2000 and n.d. [c.1930-1984]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (6 folders)