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91. Burney MS 174

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 174
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae
Scope & Content:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 2r-237v); followed without break (ff. 237v-239v) by the preface. Decoration: Probably by ‘Benedictus’, a follower of Jacopo da Fabriano, who decorated London, V&A Museum, L.935-1951, and who signed the illumination of Vatican, Barb. Lat. 180, dated 1464, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

92. Burney MS 175

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 175
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae
Scope & Content:
List of chapters (ff. 1r-2v); Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 3r-200v), followed without break (ff. 201r-202v) by the preface. Decoration: Attributed by de la Mare perhaps to Cristoforo de Predis. Decorated with 1 large initial 'P'(lutarchus) with foliate decoration in the style of 'white v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1465
Extent:
Parchment codex.

93. Burney MS 176

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 176
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae
Scope & Content:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 1r-172r), followed (ff. 172r-173v) without break by the preface; added anonymous alphabetical index, on paper (ff. 174r-189v). Decoration: Decorated with a faceted initial enmeshed in knotwork designs, in colours on a gold field with cusped edges (f. 2r), the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment and paper codex

94. Burney MS 213

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 213
Title:
Pomponius Mela, De Chronographia; Caius Julius Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; and other texts
Scope & Content:
A humanistic collection of late antique geographical and grammatical texts from the 15th century. Contents: ff. 1r-23r: Pomponius Mela, De chorographia. (‘Pomponii Mellę de cosmographia liber primus incipit’).. ff. 23v-25v: Anonymous account of a journey from Venice to Tana, datable to 140...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

95. Burney MS 229

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 229
Title:
Pliny the Younger, Letters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3r: Johannes Mansionarius of Verona, Note on the two Plinys. (‘Brevis annotatio de duobus Pliniis Veronensibus.’) beginning ‘Plinii duo fuisse noscuntur eodem nomine et prenominibis appellati’. (Printed in Elmer Truesdell Merrill, ‘On the Eight-Book Tradition of Pliny's Letters...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume

96. Burney MS 231

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 231
Title:
Aurelius Victor, De Viris Illustribus; Pliny the Younger, Letters (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16r: Aurelius Victor, On famous men, attributed to Pliny, (‘Plinii secundi Veronensis de viris illustribus liber incipit feliciter.’) ff. 17r-86r: Pliny, Letters, imperfect, lacking 2.10.6-2.10-15 (from 'saltem quo magis' to 'nimium est enim'), due to the loss of a leaf after ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

One volume.

97. Burney MS 235

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 235
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae,
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the works on Latin grammar by Priscian (fl. 500), in two parts sometimes called the Priscianus Major (Greater Priscian) and the Priscianus Minor (Lesser Priscian). The latter part is also sometimes, as in this copy, referred to as De constructione (On Construction). The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1434-1499
Extent:
A parchment codex

98. Burney MS 243

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 243
Title:
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria; Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino of Verona
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r- 234v: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria (Institutes of Oratory). The fifth gathering (ff. 35-42) is a later insertion to complement a lost gathering, written in a late 15th- or early 16th-century humanistic cursive hand. ff. 235r-v: Table of contents of the Inst...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

99. Burney MS 276

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 276
Title:
Collection of fragments
Scope & Content:
Fragments of Greek and Latin manuscripts, mostly of classical and patristic authors.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
11th century-17th century
Extent:

46 folios

100. Burney MS 342

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 342
Title:
Two fragments: a Book of Hours in Latin, and a miscellany of texts in Greek
Scope & Content:
Contains two fragments, a Book of Hours, written in Latin and dated to the 15th century, and a miscellany of texts, written in Greek and dated to 1709. These were already bound as one volume when owned by John Brand (b. 1744, d. 1806). ff. 1r-55v: Book of Hours, Use of Le Mans, fragmentary, in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1709
Extent:

Composite codex.