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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 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

3. Burney MS 129

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 129
Title:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, with Italian interlinear glosses. Decoration: 5 large puzzle initials in red and blue, with red and blue, or brown, penwork (ff. 1r, 8v, 19r, 34v, 48r), the first partly filled-in with a thin shell gold wash. Small initials in red or blue, sometimes wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

4. Burney MS 184

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 184
Title:
Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi; An incomplete anonymous alphabetical index
Scope & Content:
Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi, annotated with contemporary marginal headings (ff. 2r-103v); An incomplete anonymous alphabetical index, from Arbactus to Becta urbs (ff. 104r-104v). The MS is a palimpsest, the lower text appears to be an 11th-century Italian sacramentary (ff. iv rect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1469
Extent:
Parchment codex