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1. Burney MS

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS
Title:
Burney Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Charles Burney, classical scholar (b 1757, d 1817), primarily relating to classical literature and Christian texts in Greek and Latin. The collection also contains a substantial corpus of notes by Burney and others, and letters and papers of modern scholars.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
7th century-19th century
Extent:
524 items

2. Burney MS 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 5
Title:
Bible with prologues
Scope & Content:
Bible with prologues. The Old Testament ends imperfect in II Maccabees 14:33; the New Testament ends imperfect in Luke 3:31. The general prologue is not divided into chapters; chapters do not start on new lines; Proverbs starts on a new quire (f. 115r); Psalms 51 and 101 do not have initials ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

3. Burney MS 30

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 30
Title:
Gospel of John, Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, Treatise on the Lord's Prayer, Creed
Scope & Content:
Gospel of John, in the later Wycliffite version, Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, in the later Wycliffite version, Treatise on the Lord's Prayer: 'The ferst axynge of the sevene peticions …' (ff. 86r-105r); Creed: 'Here begynyth the crede that the profetis seyde …' (ff. 105r-106v). There is an of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

4. Burney MS 69, ff 359r-366r

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 69, ff 359r-366r
Title:
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the identification of the texts in the present volume and its sale. Partly printed and in Burney's hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:

7 foliios

5. Burney MS 95, ff 171r-172v

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 95, ff 171r-172v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Printed advance notice of the sale of the Codex Crippsianus.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

2 folios

6. Burney MS 105, ff 1r-4r

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 105, ff 1r-4r
Title:
Scope & Content:
18th-19th century notes on the text, provenance and scribe of the present volume, in Italian, English and Latin, ff 1r, 3r. Extract from St Jerome's Catalogus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum on the copying of texts, f 4r.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

4 folios

7. Burney MS 214

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 214
Title:
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII
Scope & Content:
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII (ff. 4r-90r); preceded (ff. 1r-2r) by two inserted paper leaves with 18th-century notes on Paulus Orosius, perhaps in the hand of Anthony Askew, in English, and by a chapter list, in Latin (ff. 4r-10v); followed by an excerpt from Book 5 cha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1434
Extent:
Parchment codex

8. Burney MS 357, ff. 5-12

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 357, ff. 5-12
Title:
Scope & Content:
ff. 5-11: Anselm of Canterbury, De Conceptu Virginali (Imperfect: chapter 1-11).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

9. Burney MS 389

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 389
Title:
John Taylor of St John's College, Cambridge, Notes on Lysias' In Nicomachum
Scope & Content:
John Taylor of St John's College, Cambridge, Notes on Lysias' In Nicomachum. Copy with autograph annotations. Partly Latin and English. Inscribed '1732' (f. 1v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1732?
Extent:

20 folios.

10. Burney MS 396

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 396
Title:
Commentaries on Sophocles' Ajax and Electra
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-23v: Commentary on Sophocles' Ajax, in English. ff. 24v-49v: Commentary on Sophocles' Electra, in English.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 18th century
Extent:

49 folios.