Reference files of Albinia de la Mare, containing photographs and photocopies of manuscripts and related papers: 'Miscellaneous reproductions, descriptions and notes on manuscripts and humanists'

Title

Reference files of Albinia de la Mare, containing photographs and photocopies of manuscripts and related papers: 'Miscellaneous reproductions, descriptions and notes on manuscripts and humanists'

Shelfmark

MS. 18746/174

Summary

Comprises:

Folder 1: 'Florence [manuscripts] to see etc.', papers and images, 1986-1997 and n.d. [c.1990], relating to

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS. 6106 - 9 (northern binding, produced in Florence, c.1465-1475, one or two scribes, break at fol. 39); MS. 5277 (Werken)

Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, II. I. 75 (Macrobius, Vegetius, Solinus, Sibylline prophecies); Conv. soppr. D. 8 2831 (from the Badia Fiorentina, several scribes a-c, north eastern?, second quarter-mid 15th century - Florence?, third quarter 15th century); Conv. soppr. Badia da ordinare 4 ( Epistolario of Abbot Gomez, collection of original letters, with transcripts by de la Mare, including a letter regarding two boxes of books sent, all listed, from Rome, 1429?, apparently by Antonio Correr, Episcopus Portuensis and Cardinalis Bononiensis; two letters of Traversari, one concerning translation work done by him; letter of Tommaso Salvetti, dated 143(7?) from Prato suggesting the Gothic cursive corrections in the Ashb[urnham] manuscript might be by him; letter of Cencio de' Rustici?; letter mentioning Bartolomeo da Montepulciano); Conv. soppr. da ordinare 29 (Badia 28) ( Commissiones B. Gometii); Magl. XIX. 72 (Florence, 14th-15th century, Vegetius, proto-humanistic hand of Salutati type); Magl. XXI. 7 ([Pseudo-]Aristotle, Ethics, Econ., translated by Bruni, north eastern, Ferrara, second quarter 15th century); Magl. XXIII. 60 (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, Italian translation by Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini, not autograph, chancery type script); Magl. XXIII. 87 (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, Florence, humanistic cursive, late 15th-early 16th century, marginalia apparently derived from Poggio); Palat. 1105 (Jacopo di Poggio Bracciolini, story of a daughter of King Edward, Bonaccorso da Montemagno, with Strozzi arms)

Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, II. II. 55, in a letter from Gabrielle Pomaro, Florence, 2 Jun 1997

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashb. 1792 / I ( Letters, Abbot Gomez, original letters and documents, unbound, and mostly in Portuguese, including one by 'Iohannes decanus secretarius del principe del Portogallo', concerning Salutati's Letters, that he would like to obtain to help him with his secretarial work); Biscioni 18 (Augustine)

London, British Library, Add. 6042 (Claudian, initials probably French); Add. 15114 (Liturgical Psalter, illuminated by Belbello da Pavia); Royal 5 F. II (from Duke Humfrey, scribe Beccaria); Cotton Nero E. V (from Duke Humfrey, Acts of Council of Constance)

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Class. Lat. 307 (Aulus Gellius, Florence, late 14th century)

Oxford, Lincoln College, Lat. 76 (Valerius Maximus, 'rotunda of Florentine type, 14th-15th century', with notes apparently by Flemmyng)

San Marino, Huntington Library, HM. 1036 (Vergil, with notes on Livy and a biography of the Roman historian, Florence, Gothic, illumination by Bartolomeo Varnucci. Glosses in Bk. VI in several semi-humanistic hands, including Barzizza?); HM. 1132 (Book of Hours, Florence, Gothic)

'Scribes similar to Sallando, to check': Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Nuovi acquisti 1090; Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashb. 1075; Plut. 13. 14 / I (scribe 'Ioannes Antonius de Pandulphis de Bonon.')

'Book Provision at [the] Med[ieval] Univ[ersity] of Oxford', notes on a lecture by Malcolm Parkes, Med[ieval] Soc[iety], 13 Nov 1986

Folder 2: images of London, British Library, Harl. 5423, fols. 38v, 41, and an unidentified folio, n.d. [c.1985]

Folder 3: 'Unlocalised, exhibition catalogues', papers and images, 1987-1991 and n.d. [c.1985-1995], relating to manuscripts including

Austin, University of Texas, University Library, HRC 42; 53

Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, G. III. 12 (Propertius)

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Ital. 38 (probably north eastern, not Florence)

Philadelphia, Library Company (University Library?), printed edition Pliny, Venice, Jenson, 1476, formerly in Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana

New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 726 (Lactantius, from Rome or central Italy, third quarter 15th century)

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 7778

Sam Fogg, Cat. 15 (1992), no. 33, manuscript signed Francesco de Aretio, 1463

Sotheby's, 21 Jun 1988, lot 88; 20 Jun 1989, lot 48; 18 Jun 1991, lot 88

Hoepli, May 1925, no. 210

'Sam Fogg's Herbal and Tacuinum'

items from an exhibition catalogue, P. Pirolo ed., Lorenzo dopo Lorenzo: la fortuna storica di Lorenzo il Magnifico (Milan, 1992): Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 61.3; Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, II. II. 62; Pal 739; Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, 708

items from an exhibition catalogue, La chiesa e la città a Firenze nel XV Secolo (1992)

Folder 4: correspondence, mainly letters received from Consuelo Dutschke, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and related papers and images, 1989-1996, concerning manuscripts including

New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Plimpton 25 (Veneto); 101; 103; 105; 107; 110; 120 (scribe Domenico Firmanus, 1469, Siena); 131 (Verona? or Pesaro, Bessarion scribe); 135; 146; 151; 154; Med-Ren X87. C48. Q; X88. H45; X208. J48; X877. B28. Q; Lodge 8; 14 - 23; Western 9 - 10, 24 - 30

Williamstown, Massachusetts, Chapin Library, 28 (Petrarch, Naples, third quarter 15th century, Albizzi arms added later); 29 (Vergil, from Ferrara); 30 (Jerome, Milan, second quarter 15th century)

Folder 5: 'Miscellaneous humanists (additions) I', images of manuscripts and notes, 1987-1994 and n.d. [c.1985-1990], relating to

Donato Acciaiuoli: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magl. XII. 55

Zanobi Acciaiuoli?: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, San Marco 683; San Marco 689

Aurispa: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 1984

Francesco and Ermolao Barbaro: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. gr. 47; Boston, Public Library, MS. f. Med. 9; Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Lat. X. 209 (3537); New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Plimpton 17; Deventer, Stads- of Athenaeumbibliotheek, MS. I. 85

Bartolomeo da Montepulciano: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 90 sup. 42

Beccaria: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashb. 253; missing part of a manuscript of Cicero, Speeches, Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Lat. XI. 38, owned by him

Bessarion: Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Lat. Z. 260 (407); Lat. Z. 45 (1714)

Buondelmonti: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 7. 30

Giovanni Colonna: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Edili 173; Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. G. 4. 1111

Modesto Decembrio: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, II. II. 65

Felice Feliciano?: Harvard, Houghton Library, Lat. 355; Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 5118

Ficino: Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 709

Guarino: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 1592, scribe Flavio Biondo, including autograph letter by Guarino, his annotation

Stefano Guarnieri: New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 'Feltrinelli Columella'

Pomponio Leto: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chig. L. VI. 203 (early)

Lovato Lovati: London, British Library, Add. 19906 (notes by Lovato throughout; on fol. 4 Piendibeni? or Salutati)

Lupi: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 45. 7 (Lupi queried); 12. 20 (possibly from Lupi); 53. 25; 63. 17 (possibly Lupi)

Agnolo Manetti: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1594; 1494 (date of text 1444)

Giannozzo Manetti: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1486; 1036

Manetti (Agnolo or Giannozzo): Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 1938

Andrea Navagero: Mantua, Archivio di Stato, Arch. Gonzaga b. 1453

Folder 6: 'Miscellaneous humanists (additions) II', images of manuscripts and notes, 1987-1994 and n.d. [c.1985-1990], relating to

Battista Pallavicini: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 73. 1 (page inserted by him in an ancient manuscript, c.1465)

Panormita: London, British Library, Add. 10661 (Cicero, Speeches, Naples, mid-third quarter 15th century, Cola Rapicano, unfamiliar scribe, addition at end Milanese?)

Parentucelli: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 418

Parrasio: Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 73A (Vergil, definitely not Milanese, probably Ferrarese?, third quarter 15th century)

Perotti: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ross. 412 (Aristotle, Ethics, in Greek, with a Bolognese border, c.1450-1455. 'Arms erased could have been Perotti – traces of ladder. Scribe looks like one of Bessarion's Greek scribes (one who was in Florence). No annotations.' On original end paste-down is a note, 'xxv Aprilis 1514 Egidius dedit'. Lines are frame ruled, on versos); Vat. lat. 6848 (Martial, written and heavily annotated by Perotti, Bolognese border of c.1450s, and coat of arms Perotti)

Petrarch?: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 264 (Ambrose, Opera var., 12th century, annotation on fol. 93 by Petrarch?)

Petrarch: Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Lat. XI. 122 (4117), marginalia apparently in two hands, both of which could be Petrarch. 'Silvia Rizzo says no'); Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 1490

Lodovico Petroni: Siena, Archivio di Stato, PFS 145. 4; Siena, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, MS. K. VI. 68 (fol. 110v )

Pico: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, San Marco 612; Fies. 53

Poliziano: Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Fies. 44

Rinuccio Aretino: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, II. VIII. 129 (Aretino correspondence on paper, apparently in considerable part autograph, including letters from Traversari, Barbaro, et al.)

Salutati / Vespucci: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magl. VII. 966

Taddeo Solacio: Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS. 818; Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Lat. X. 197 (3612); Brescia, Archivio Storico Civico, Polize 253, 126; 412; 434; 1523; Brescia, Biblioteca Queriniana, A. V. 26; B. V. 35; C. II. 14; G. V. 11; L. II. 22; Lonato, Biblioteca Ugo da Como, Cod. 182

Trapezuntius: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4564

Valla: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 355

Vespucci: incunables in Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, and Washington, Library of Congress; Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 35. 39; 89 inf. 8²

Veterano: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. lat. 351 (Bernardino Ilicino, Comm. on Petrarch, Trionfi); 651 (Terence)

Folder 7: papers and images, 1988-1998 and n.d. [c.1990-2000], relating to manuscripts including

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 8031 (Seneca, Tragedies)

Berkeley, University of California, Bancroft Library, MS. 66 (Horace); 70 (Vergil); 77 (Flaminio, Epigr.); 102 (Bruni, Hist. Flor.); 142 (Cicero, De senectute, De amicitia)

Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, T. II. 8 (Plautus)

Christie's, 1996 ( Statuti dell' Università di Pisa)

New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Plimpton 23 (Lorenzo Valla)

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, R. 11 (Flavius Josephus)

Biblioteca Cattedrale di Novara (Seneca, early 15th century)

Seville, Biblioteca Colombina, 5. 1. 20 (Pietro del Monte); 7. 2. 23 (Tito Livio Frulovisi)

Cambridge, University Library, MS. Gg. I. 34 / 1 (Poggio)

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 8222

Sotheby's, 1998 (Cicero, De officiis)

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert I, MS. 10054 - 56 (Apuleius, ex-libris of Cusanus, notes by Bussi?)

Radaeli incunabulum, 1993

unidentified sale catalogue, lot 59 (Plato, Spain)

London, British Library, Add. 15974 (Cicero)

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 3361 (Sannazaro, autograph)

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 9477; 9977

unidentified repository, S. Q. X. D. 8; S. Q. X. D. 26 (incunabula)

Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magl. VIII. 19 (Filelfo)

Lettera consolatoria by Gian Mario Filelfo to Bona di Savoia and two Vergil fragments

Philadelphia, Free Public Library, Horace, Comm. by Cristoforo Landino (printed edition Venice, 1483)

Sandra Hindman, loose illumination (1995)

unidentified repository, notarial act 22 Feb 1453

Delaware, Ohio, Wesleyan University, MS. 271 1 C579

Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Gr. 6 (Thucydides)

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 60. 21

Oxford, Balliol College, MS. 288 (Conversini, Opera)

Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Lat. XIV. 224 (4341) (Conversini, Hist. Elysie)

Nuremberg, Stadtbibliothek, MS. Hert. 10 (Hippocrates)

Leuven, Codex de Tortis (Venetian printed books, c.1515)

Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, Inc. Pal. 1158 (printed edition Pliny)

Los Angeles, J.P. Getty Museum, MS. 24; 86 Ml. 674 (Breviary fragments)

San Daniele del Friuli, Biblioteca Guarneriana, MS. 146

Yale, Beinecke Library, Marston 4 (several orations, not Cicero, and Cicero, De officiis, De oratore, manuscript with initials 'N.K.' in several places)

manuscripts commissioned by Palla di Nofri Strozzi (scribe Franciscus Johannis Tantini de Empoli civem et not[arium] florentinum)

New York, University, Box 13 legal #5A (Cicero, fragment Pro Cluentio)

London, British Library, Add. 14794 (arms of Niccolò V, presumably the dedication copy); 21115 (Pseudo-Apuleius, partly written by Pietro Ursuleo); 11983

Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, MS. 20 (Terence manuscript)

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 19. 6 (for Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici)

manuscripts in New York, Turku University, Naples, London, British Library, and elsewhere

Folder 8: 'Reproductions, miscellaneous manuscripts', papers and images, 1997 and n.d. [c.1995-1997], relating to manuscripts including

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. lat. 2057 (Cicero, De oratore); Chig. I. VII. 266 ( Oratio Virgilii)

Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 3005 (Ordinary of S. Reparata)

Florence, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, unidentified shelfmark

Christie's, 3 Apr 1996, lot 4 (Seneca, Letters); 6; 7 (Terence, Florence?); 8 (Giovanni Faella, Instrumenta Feudorum Castri Sonae, et al.); 28, 81; 183; 225; 232 (manuscripts and incunabula)

Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preuβischer Kulturbesitz, Lat. oct. 125 (Bruni, Letters)

Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 899 (Bruni, Letters)

Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VIII. E. 46 (Bruni, scribe Antonio Crivelli of Milan, 1433, Genoa)

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 8637 (Bruni, Letters)

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chig. J. IV. 119 (Bruni, Letters); Pal. lat. 1597 (Bruni, Letters)

Ravenna, Biblioteca Classense, MS. 227 (Bruni, Letters)

Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, MS. 43 (Raymundus Lullus, scribe Iohannes Terre Presbiter indignus); 4059 (Basinio, Astronomicon)

Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS. 107 (Evangeliary of Sta Justina, Padua)

Date

1986-1998 and n.d. [c.1985-2000]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (8 folders)