Reference files of Albinia de la Mare: 'Lecture drafts and notes, bibliographies, notes on manuscripts (B[ritish] L[ibrary], Pisa, et al.'

Title

Reference files of Albinia de la Mare: 'Lecture drafts and notes, bibliographies, notes on manuscripts (B[ritish] L[ibrary], Pisa, et al.'

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/191

Summary

Comprises:

Folder 1: papers, mainly relating to codicology, 1974-1998 and n.d. [c.1990-1997], including

bibliographies for 'Codicology', 'Description of texts', 'Layout and Decoration', 'Paper and Binding', 'Handwriting in Western Europe', 'The Medieval Manuscript Book - VI, Humanists, History of the Book MA', and 'Italian Humanistic Manuscripts'

folding examples

photocopies of manuscripts, and other materials specifically intended for teaching

Folder 2: 'Lectures', lecture notes and drafts and related papers, 1987-1999 and n.d. [c.1990-1997], including

'The Scriptorium of Malatesta Novello' (1 p., incomplete)

'Codicology of Italian Humanistic Manuscripts', King's College lecture II, 25 Jan 1989 (4 pp., in particular analysing Derolez, Codicologie)

'La produzione del libro umanistico', Zurich, Centro di Studi Italiani, 18 Nov 1997

papers relating to a lecture in Cremona, 1992 (text, 7 pp.)

lecture notes relating to the most important centres and regions of Italian humanistic manuscript production, mainly connected with lectures at New York, Columbia University, Rare Book School, 1987; Padua, 1987; Cremona, 1992; and Pisa, 1998-1999

images of manuscripts for lectures, and for a query regarding Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 6179

Folder 3: correspondence and papers, 1986-1997, relating to

a lecture for the Autenrieth colloquium, Munich, including notes on manuscripts to consult at Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 1986-1987

'Vespasiano da Bisticci as producer of classical manuscripts in 15th century Florence', a paper given at a conference in Leiden in Jul 1993 and published in C.A. Chavannes-Mazel and M.M. Smith eds., Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin Classics: Production and Use. Proceedings of the Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Leiden 1993 (Los Altos Hills, California, 1996), 1993-1996

lectures at the Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Tilly-Fest', St. Cross Building, Oxford, 21-22 Jun 1997

Folder 4: notes and lecture text, 1995-1999 and n.d. [c.1995-1999], relating to

'R & W on Petrarch'

London, British Library, Royal 15 C. XV; Add. 11987 (Seneca, Tragedies, Mussato, signed by Salutati); Harl. 1705 (Plato, translated by Decembrio); 5248 (Augustine, De musica, scribe Giovanni Aretino); 5285 (Plautus, Sozomeno); Royal 5 F. II (translations by Beccaria)

Pisa, Biblioteca Cathariniana, MS. 37; 27; 59; 11; 124; 177; 189; 46; 136; 125; 176; 4; 2; 188; 180

Pisa, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 542; 544; 723; 691; 532 (Milan?, third quarter 15th century?); 531 (Bartolomeo Sanvito); 537 (Rome, 1461?); 536; 535; 12 (Matteo Palmieri, De bello italico); 540 (Aurelius Victor, Boccaccio, Florence or Tuscan); 529 (Isocrates, Seneca, Napoli, third quarter 15th century); 532

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS. 4031-4033

'Description of a manuscript', for Pisa, 1998-1999

'manuscripts to see', Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 184; 3; 206; 37; and Cologny-Genève, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, MS. lat. 130

'Jane's notes (?deriv[ed] from Julian [Brown?]) on history of the quire'

'Teaching notes, codicology'

Folder 5: 'Xeroxes used for Padua [lecture]', 1987

Date

1974-1999 and n.d. [c.1990-1999]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (5 folders)