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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 332

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 332
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Clermont
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, use of Clermont, in Latin with prayers in French. Contents: ff. 1r-52v: Hours of the Virgin ff. 53r-60v: Advent Office ff. 61r-68v: Office for Christmas mislabelled on f. 60v as that of the Nativity of the Virgin. ff. 69r-89v: Office of the Dead, starting with Matins; ff. 90...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume

3. Burney MS 362-369

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 362-369
Title:
Casaubon papers.
Scope & Content:
The principal contents are (1) letters to Isaac Casaubon, 1586-1614, n.d.; (2) correspondence of Meric Casaubon, 1614-1670, n.d. Also included (Burney 367 ff 198r-v) is a fragment of an order of precedence among the bishops under the Patriarch of Constantinople
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:

8 volumes

4. Burney MS 67

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 67
Title:
Synopses of works by Aristotle, Ps.-Aristotle, and Porphyry, with extracts from Pindar
Scope & Content:
Synopses of works by Aristotle and Ps.-Aristotle, with extracts from Pindar, arranged as follows: ff. 2r-41v: Synopsis of Aristotle's Naturalis auscultatio. Partly Latin, at ff. 36r-41v. ff. 42r-65v: Synopsis of Aristotle's Meteorologica. Partly Latin, at ff. 64r-65v. ff. 66r-149v: Synopsis o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

401 folios.

5. Burney MS 86

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 86
Title:
Townley Homer
Scope & Content:
Iliad of Homer, with extensive marginal and interlinear scholia (ff 1r-281v). Later added inscriptions and ownership marks, including: Engraved portrait of Charles Townley, 1812 (f iv recto). Partly erased 15th-century Italian accounts in Latin (f v recto). Engraving of a bust of Homer found...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
?1059
Extent:

281 folios

6. Burney MS 179

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 179
Title:
Horace, Carmina; Carmen Saeculare; Epodes; Ars Poetica; Satires; Epistles; and Hymns to St Nicholas for Vespers, Matins, and Lauds
Scope & Content:
Horace, Carmina (ff. 1r-43r); Carmen Saeculare (ff. 43r-44r); Epodes (ff. 44r-52v); Ars Poetica (ff. 53r-59r); Satires (ff. 59v-87r); Epistles (ff. 87r-107v); followed by Hymns to St Nicholas for Vespers, Matins, and Lauds, added in cursive script, 13th century. inc. Pange lingua graciosi, Nicho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

7. Burney MS 95, f 1v

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 95, f 1v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Biographical notes on Andocides and Isaeus in French, late 18th-early 19th century. For the sources of these notes and an identification of the copyist as Prince Alexander Bano Hantzerli see Wyse 1904 pp. xiii-xiv.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:

1 folio