A. C. de la Mare

Albinia Catherine de la Mare, (2 June 1932 – 19 December 2001), known in print as A.C. de la Mare and informally as "Tilly", was an English librarian and palaeographer who specialised in Italian Renaissance manuscripts.

Personal life Born in Gower Street, London, in 1932, she was the daughter of Richard de la Mare, director of Faber and Faber, and the granddaughter of the poet Walter de la Mare.

Selected publications Books authored Vespasiano da Bisticci, Historian and Bookseller. PhD diss. U London, 1965. Catalogue of the Collection of Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford by James P.R. Lyell. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971. (with Terence Alan Martyn Bishop). English Caroline Minuscule. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971. Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks. The Shop of a Florentine 'Cartolaio' in 1426. Firenze: L. Olschki, 1973. The Handwriting of Italian Humanists, Vol. 1, Fasc. 1: Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Coluccio Salutati, Niccolò Niccoli, Poggio Bracciolini, Bartolomeo Aragazzi of Montepulciano, Sozomeno of Pistoia, Giorgio Antonio Vespucci. Oxford: University Press for Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, 1973. Handwriting of Italian Humanists 1, fasc. 1. Humanistic Hands in England. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1980. Further Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1985. Duke Humfrey's Library & the Divinity School at Oxford, 1488–1988: Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Bodleian Library, June–August 1988. Oxford: Bodleian, 1988. Vespasiano da Bisticci as Producer of Classical Manuscripts in Fifteenth-Century Florence. London: Red Gull, 1996. (with Laura Nuvoloni). The Handwriting of Italian Humanists 2: Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe. Paris: Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, 2009. Handwriting of Italian Humanists 2.

Books edited (with B. C. Barker-Benfield). Manuscripts at Oxford: An Exhibition in Memory of Richard William Hunt, 1908–1979: Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1945–1975, On Themes Selected and Described by Some of His Friends. Oxford: Bodleian, 1980.

Chapters and articles (with D.F.S. Thomson). "Poggio's Earliest Manuscript?" Italia Medioevale e Umanistica 16 (1973): 179–95. "Humanistic Script: The First Ten Years". In: Das Verhältnis der Humanisten zum Buch. Ed. F. Kraft and D. Wuttke. Boppard, 1977. pp. 89–110. Mitteilungen der Kommission für Humanismusforschung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft 4. [Sonderdruck]. (with Lotte Hellinga). "The First Book Printed in Oxford: The Expositio Symboli of Rufinus". Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 7.2 (1978): 184–244. "Script and Manuscripts in Milan under Sforzas". In: Milano nell'Età di Ludovico il Moro: Atti del Convegno Internazionale, 28 febbraio–4 marzo 1983. Vol. 2. Milano: Comune di Milano, Archivio Storico Civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana, 1983. pp. 399–408. "Marginalia and Glosses in the Manuscripts of Bartolomeo Sanvito of Padua". In: Talking to the Text: Marginalia from Papyri to Print: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Erice, 26 September–3 October 1998, as the 12th Course of International School for the Study of Written Records. Ed. Vincenzo Fera, Silvia Rizzo, and Giacomo Ferraù. Messina: Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Umanistici, 2002. pp. 459–555. Percorsi dei Classici 4–5.