Books stolen from the British Institute of Florence

[Christine Ferdinand <christine.ferdinand@magdalen.oxford.ac.uk>]

I've just returned from the British Institute of Florence, where I
discovered that most of their small collection of early books was stolen
last April. Ten books are missing--two of them incunables and one of those
is fairly rare. The books will have few marks of ownership. I'd like
to circulate this list of stolen books as widely as possible. I'm afraid
that I don't have any more details than those provided below.

If you have any ideas on locating the books, please get in touch with me,
or with the director of the Institute, Christine Wilding (Lungarno
Guicciardini 9, 50125 Firenze, Italy. Phone: 0039 55 284032). Thanks.

Christine Ferdinand

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EARLY BOOKS MISSING from the LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF FLORENCE


	Sant'Alfonso de Ligueri, Theologia moralis, 2 vols. in 1? (Rome,
1767). British Institute shelfmark: C/F/241 LIG

	Pseud. Aristotle, Problemata Aristotelis, ac philosophorum
medicumque complurium (Venice, 1580).  C/F/185 ARI

	Bellarmine, Robert, In omnes psalmos dilucida explanatio (Vencie, 1628).
C/F/223.6 BEL

	Concordantia Bibliorum utriusque Testamenti Veteris et Novi
(Antwerp, 1612). C/F/220.88 CON

	Corpus Iuris Civilis: I. Digestum vetus Iustiniani.  II.
Infortiatum.  III. Digestum novum.  IV. Institutiones (Lyons, 1549, 1550).
TA/349.372 SAL

	Ficino, Marsilio, Marsilio Ficino Della religione Christiana ...
dall'autore istesso tradotto in lingua Toscana (Florence, 1568). C/F/195
FIC

	Guicciardini, Francesco, La Historia d'Italia ... divisa in venti
libri (Venice, 1587). C/F/945 GUI

	Jerome, Vitae sanctorum patrium (Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 14
Feb. 1483/4). C/F/235.2 JER. This copy imperfect, wanting sigs. s1, u1,
x1, E8, F1, and F4, which have been supplied in photocopy.

	Lactantius, L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiani: Divinarum institutionum,
De ira dei, De opificio dei (Lyond, 1587). C/F/230 LAC

	Virgil, Universum poema cum absoluta Servii Honorati Marui,
grammatici, & Badij Ascensij interpretationer (Venice, 1578). C/F/870 VIR

	Voragine, Jacobus de, Legenda aurea sanctorum (Lyons, 18 Nov. 1494).
C/235.2 VOR ["W. Bayntun, Grays Inn" on title-page]. 

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Dr C. Y. Ferdinand
Fellow Librarian
Magdalen College
Oxford OX1 4AU
England

Telephone: 01865 276057