Reference files of Albinia de la Mare: 'Classical manuscripts, reviews, Exeter, notebooks, miscellaneous'

Title

Reference files of Albinia de la Mare: 'Classical manuscripts, reviews, Exeter, notebooks, miscellaneous'

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/82

Summary

Comprises:

Folder 1: 'Bodleian colour films', notes on Bodleian Library film strips and preparatory notes and draft of a lecture by de la Mare, 'The Development of 15th-Century Florentine Humanistic Script and Decoration', 1963 and n.d. [c.1965]

Folder 2: notes, 1974-1981 and n.d. [c.1965-1980], on subjects including

lectures, including Lyell lectures by Mgr. J. Ruysschaert, relating to Bartolomeo Sanvito, Sforza of Pesaro, and the 'V&A Pliny'

manuscripts in Florentine libraries

Traversari, Tommaso Baldinotti, Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini, and other Florentine cursive scribes

Italian decorated initials

illumination

Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, W. 755

Manchester, John Rylands Library, Lat. 47

Folder 3: 'Reviews', requests for reviews, copies of completed reviews by de la Mare, and related papers, 1974-1994 and n.d. [c.1970]

Folder 4: 'Misc[ellaneous] Notes on Classical MSS', correspondence and papers, 1977-2000 and n.d. [c.1990], including notes on scribes and illuminators, images of manuscripts and responses to enquiries

Folder 5: notes, 1982-1993 and n.d. [c.1980-1990], relating to subjects including

manuscripts containing Florus, including London, British Library, Egerton 938 (from Ferrara); Harl. 4793 (Florence, 1460-1470); Add. 25450 (Milan)

'Harvard manuscripts' and 'Harvard incunabula'

'Poggio possibles'

manuscripts at Harvard, Princeton, Padua, The British Library and elsewhere

London, British Library, Add. 16410

incunabula at Cambridge, University Library

Folder 6: 'Xeroxes of Petrarch manuscripts in America', including correspondence with D.J. Dutschke, author of Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Padua, 1986), 1984

Folder 7: 'Hugo Pictor', papers relating to Hugo Pictor and Exeter manuscripts, including materials relating to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 717 and 783 and Durham Cathedral, B. II. 13, 1985-1994 and n.d. [c.1990]

Folder 8: 'Bindings, rubbings and photos', images and rubbings of bindings and related notes, n.d. [c.1965-1980], relating to materials in repositories including

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Chicago, Newberry Library

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria

Milan, Archivio Storico

London, British Library

Valencia, Biblioteca Universitaria

Oxford, Bodleian Library

Besançon, Bibliothèque Municipale

London, Lambeth Palace

Date

1963-2000 and n.d. [c.1965-1990]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (8 folders)