Reference files of Albinia de la Mare: 'Italian centres of manuscript production (Milan, Cesena), Duomo exhibition, Sassetti, The First Book Printed in Oxford, The Urbino Library'

Title

Reference files of Albinia de la Mare: 'Italian centres of manuscript production (Milan, Cesena), Duomo exhibition, Sassetti, The First Book Printed in Oxford, The Urbino Library'

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/224

Summary

Comprises:

Folder 1: 'Notes for Sforza lecture, Milan 1983?', drafts of 'Script and manuscripts in Milan under the Sforzas' by de la Mare, and related papers, [c.1983]

Folder 2: 'Duomo exhib[ition] Sept 1997 - notes and Xeroxes and descr[iptions]', 1997, relating to the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana exhibition, 'I libri del Duomo di Firenze', including descriptions of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Edili 3; 130 and images of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Edili 3

Folder 3: 'Cesena drafts', notes and drafts, n.d. [c.1989], relating to 'The Scriptorium of Malatesta Novello' by de la Mare, a version of which was published as F. Lollini and P. Lucchi eds., Libraria Domini - I Manoscritti della Biblioteca Malatestiana : testi e decorazioni (Cesena, 1995)

Folder 4: 'Sassetti', typescript draft, 'The Library of Francesco Sassetti (1421-1490)' and related papers, 1973-1975 and n.d. [c.1970]. Article published in C.H. Clough ed., Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance, Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller (Manchester, 1976)

Folder 5: draft, notes and papers relating to 'The First Oxford Book', 1978 and n.d. [c.1975-1978], a lecture given by de la Mare to the Printing Historical Society, 30 Sep 1978. Paper by de la Mare and L. Hellinga published as 'The First Book Printed in Oxford: The Expositio Symboli of Rufinus' in Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, VII. 2 (1978)

Folder 6: 'Urbino [Manuscripts]', 1968-1996 and n.d., notes and images relating to

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 197 (Agnolo di Jacopo de' Dinuzi); 421; 442 (signed Francesco Contugi); 382 (Piero Strozzi); 250 (signed Φ. H.); 333 (Hugo de Comminellis); 1342 (Francesco Contugi)

Ravenna, Biblioteca Classense, MS. 428 (Agnolo di Jacopo de' Dinuzi, 1477)

Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. 2151 (Contugi)

Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, In de Betouw 1 (Piero Strozzi)

'Vespasiano da Bisticci e i copisti fiorentini di Federico' by de la Mare, including a draft article, [1986]. [Published in G. Cerboni, G. Baiardi, G. Chittolini and P. Floriani eds., Federico di Montefeltro: lo stato, le arti, la cultura (Rome, 1986)

'Urbino scribes and manuscripts identified'; 'Tally of scribes to date'; 'Singles of identified scribes'; 'Florentine manuscripts with Urb[ino] arms added later'; 'Manuscripts dated or datable after 1478'; 'New Florentine manuscripts not listed by D'Ancona'; 'Table of Urbino manuscripts'; 'examples of manuscripts ruled in ink with foliation etc.'; 'Manuscripts ruled in ink, no foliation'; 'Some Urbino manuscripts copied from printed texts'

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 273

'Plutarch, Lives, in Urbino manuscripts'

'Manuscripts not Florence': Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. Lat. 687, Dante, Canzoniere, Urbino, c.1481-1482, illuminated by Francesco De' Russi, written by the same scribe as Urb. Lat. 1754; Urb. Lat. 380, Dante, Comm. Benvenuto da Imola, possibly Ferrarese, scribe of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Class. Lat. 100?

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Ital. 50, a collection of poetry (including Petrarch, Dante) put together at Urbino in the early 1460s

'List of early XVc. manuscripts or manuscripts with Montefeltro arms added'; 'Manuscripts copied for Federico outside Florence or Urbino'

manuscripts in J. Ruysschaert, A.C. de la Mare and A. Marucchi eds., I codici latini datati della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vol. II (Vatican City, 1997), including notes concerning 'visto per…' inscriptions

'Urbino, lines'; 'Urbino, pearshape'

'Urbino, Florentine manuscripts apparently new vs [vinescroll?]'

'Certain Florentine new manuscripts for Federico'

'Manuscripts for Guidobaldo, Guidantonio, Oddantonio, Ottaviano Ubaldini'; 'manuscripts from Sforza of Pesaro'

'Urbino manuscripts not seen, definitely or probably Florentine'; 'in D'Ancona but not Florentine'; 'Florentine seen but not in D'Ancona'; 'Not in D'Ancona, not seen, likely to be Florentine'

'Non Florentine, or pre-XVc. or XVc.in. [early 15th century], manuscripts probably XVc.2 [second half of the 15th century]'

'Non Florentine, manuscripts certainly or probably new'; 'Elsewhere'; 'Manuscripts other owners'

'Poss[ible] XVc.2 [second half of the 15th century] manuscripts possibly acquired in Florence or available in Vespasiano's shop'

'Extra Urbino manuscripts not in Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana'

'Francesco d'Antonio or close follower'

'Urbino manuscripts not seen but Florentine acc[ording] to Garzelli'

'Notes on Urb. lat. video disc'

'Urbino manuscripts possibly or probably Florentine, not seen'

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 1754; 1147 (Cicero, Milan?); 659 (Juvenal); 427 (signed by Contugi); 396; 316 (Pisa, 1453); 58 (Roman?); 78 (signed Iohannes de Monthabur, arms Bessarion, Verona); 220 (signed Theodoricus Theutonicus de Erfordia, Ferrara or Urbino?); 226 (Ferrara or Urbino); 452 (Boccaccio, De montibus, Perotti, De Horatii Flacci metris, and others, apparently Veterano - Florence?); 306 (Priscian, Urbino?, c. third quarter 15th century)

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 1125 to Urb. lat. 1326; 274 (Ptolemy, coat of arms Vitéz); 275 (Ptolemy); 1142 (Seneca, volgarizzamento)

'New Urbino manuscripts of classics'; 'Rosselli or close follower'; 'dated vs [vinestem?] decoration'; 'Bartolomeo di Domenico'; 'Urbino still needing checking on video'; 'Urbino manuscripts from Poggio'; 'New flower or other late, more elab[orate decoration]'

'Urbino tables etc.' with details of Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 1 to 916; 922; 923; 939; 961; 984; 986; 999; 1007; 1120; 1121; 1128; 1139 to 1221; 1249; 1255; 1258; 1303; 1314; 1322; 1323; 1324; 1326; 1328; 1329; 1333; 1342; 1345; 1346; 1355; 1356; 1357; 1358; 1359; 1360; 1361; 1362; 1368; 1370; 1381; 1385; 1393; 1400; 1401; 1407; 1435; 1384; 1392; 1439; 1491; 1503; 1417; 1515; 1754

'Urb[ino] new identifications - definite'

'Certain Florentine and Tuscan Urbino manuscripts, XVc.2 [second half of the 15th century] and Poggio'

'Urbino Florentine manuscripts, scribes'

'Urbino artists attributed'

'Urbino manuscripts outside Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Urbino collection, or late', relating to Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 245; Scribe of Urb. lat. 397 and 214; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 1770

'Florence, late scribes, Urbino, singles': Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 31; 32; 35; 40; 66; 128; 132 ('signed? Nierkerke'); 179; 328; 329; 98; London, British Library, Burn. 123; Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, printed edition Origen, Rome, 1481

Date

1968-1997 and n.d. [c.1970-1997]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (6 folders)