Albinia Catherine de la Mare 1932–2001
Jonathan Alexánder
Albinia de la Mare was one of the outstanding palaeographers 20th century. Just as E. A. Lowe in his <italic>Codices Latini Antiquiores</italic> mapped earliest surviving Latin manuscripts, and Bernhard Bischoff classified by date origin Carolingian she undertook task tracing careers hundreds scribes writing newly introduced humanistic script Italy 15th The tasks were different many specific ways, but methodological principles largely same. They consisted training memory to recognise characteristics script, what call <italic>ductus</italic>, combining that expertise with a thorough knowledge texts which being transcribed, patrons for whom manuscripts written, broader cultural historical context.
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