Reference files of Albinia de la Mare relating to Vespasiano da Bisticci, her PhD thesis, 'Vespasiano da Bisticci, Historian and Bookseller', University of London (Warburg Institute), 1965-1966, and other subjects: 'Vespasiano, Badia, Fiesole, San Marco, A[rchivio di] S[tato di] F[irenze], Epistolaria, notes and reproductions'

Title

Reference files of Albinia de la Mare relating to Vespasiano da Bisticci, her PhD thesis, 'Vespasiano da Bisticci, Historian and Bookseller', University of London (Warburg Institute), 1965-1966, and other subjects: 'Vespasiano, Badia, Fiesole, San Marco, A[rchivio di] S[tato di] F[irenze], Epistolaria, notes and reproductions'

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/131

Summary

Comprises:

Folder 1: correspondence, notes and images, 1979-1983 and n.d. [c.1979-1980], including items relating to

Rome, Biblioteca Corsiniana, 44 B. 27 (Vespasiano, Vita Sancta Paula Romana)

manuscripts in Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, London, British Library, and elsewhere relating to Valerius Maximus

Bruni annotations (information from Professor [Edmund] Fryde)

Sallando

Salutati

'Manuscripts to check'

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 691

Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, MS. philol. 161 (Suetonius)

Ithaca, Cornell University, University Library, Bd. Petrarch P. P49 R511 (MS. Pet. - Z. 13) (Petrarch, Canzoniere, Trionfi)

Manchester, John Rylands Library, Hebrew 8

Sotheby's sale, 11 Dec 1979

Folder 2: 'Letters in alphabetical order', notes on humanist epistolaria, in particular concerning the content of the letters, arranged in rough alphabetical order, n.d. [c.1960]

Folder 3: 'Clients and notes', comprising draft 'Chapter VIII Part II. Alphabetical Summaries of the evidence for Vespasiaono's work for his [indivi?]dual] Clients' and 'Notes, Clients', n.d. [c.1960]

Folder 4: 'V[espasiano]'s Trade, S[an] Marco, Fiesole etc., Badia accounts', annotated transcripts of documents relating to Vespasiano's trade for and with San Marco, the Badia Fiorentina, and the Badia Fiesolana, 1973 and n.d. [c.1960-1970]

Folder 5: 'Vespasiano manuscripts', lists of Fiesole manuscripts and notes, 1969-1974 and n.d. [c.1970-1975], apparently part of de la Mare's preparation for 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', published in Annarosa Garzelli ed., Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento (Florence, 1985), including

'Identifiable manuscripts directly prod[uced] by V[espasiano]'

'Fiesole manuscripts almost certainly produced by Vespasiano'

'Manuscripts not named or identifiable in [Fiesole] Accounts'

'Manuscripts V[espasiano] paid for'

'Thesis addenda, Fiesole notes etc.'

notes on and transcripts from Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Fies. 227, the catalogue of the library of Fiesole, with images of the catalogue

Folder 6: 'Archive Material', transcripts from manuscripts at Archivio di Stato di Firenze and related notes, 1968 and n.d. [c.1960-1970], including materials concerning

ser Griso Griselli, ser Piero Buonaccorsi, ser Anastagio di Amerigo Vespucci, ser Piero di Brunio Cortolani, ser Bernardo di Lorenzo Cortesi and ser Piero da Vinci

Protocolli of ser Leonardo da Colle (T. 488-496, 499-504)

Tratte, Vols. 67-68, 80, 81

Medici e Speziali Matricole, 1408-44

Arte Por. S. Maria

Matricoli

Arte della Lana

Libri dei Morti, chiefly from Grascia, Vol. 5, 1457-1506

Catasto, Beni of Pieve di Ripoli, 1478

birthdates from Tratte 39

Ricordi of Marco Parenti

Paolo Uccello

Date

1968-1983 and n.d. [c.1960-1980]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (6 folders)