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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 177
Title:: Horace, Odes; Epodes; Carmen Saeculare; Ars Poetica; Epistles; Satires
Scope & Content:: Horace, Odes (ff. 1r-31v); Epodes (ff. 31v-36v); Carmen Saeculare (ff. 36v-37r); Ars Poetica (ff. 37r-42v); Epistles (ff. 42v-60r); Satires (ff. 60r-83v). Decoration: Decorated with a zoomorphic initial ‘M’ in the form of two birds drinking from a chalice (f. 1r), a large initial in red (f. 37...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 178
Title:: Selected works of Horace and other literary texts.
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-2r: Suetonius, Vita Horati, here attributed to Pier Candido Decembrio by a later hand: 'Est P. Candidi Oratii vita.' (cf. Munk Olsen, L’étude des auteurs classiques latins, I, p. 429 no. 108), begins 'Septuagesimo etatis anno...’ ends ‘...Acron tamen ceteris eruditius.’ ff. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 180
Title:: Horace, Odes; Epodes; Carmen Saeculare; Ars Poetica; Satires; Epistles
Scope & Content:: Horace, Odes (ff. 1r-63v); Epodes (ff. 63v-76v); Carmen Saeculare (ff. 76v-78r); Ars Poetica (ff. 78v-88r); Satires (ff. 88r-130v); Epistles (ff. 130v-160v). Decoration: Decorated with a partial border rising from a gold vase, and a matching lower border with an almond-shaped shield, whose ori...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 181
Title:: Horace, Odes; Epodes; Carmen Saeculare; preceded by the Life of Horace, attributed here to Petrus Crinitus
Scope & Content:: Horace, Odes (ff. 5r-78v); Epodes (ff. 79r-93v); Carmen Saeculare (ff. 94r-95v); preceded by the Life of Horace, attributed here to Petrus Crinitus, inc. Q Horatius Flaccus in Venusio Apuliae oppido natus est (ff. 1r-4r). Decoration: Decorated predominantly in dull colours with six-line facete...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 182
Title:: Horace, Ars Poetica; Epistles; with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses
Scope & Content:: Horace, Ars Poetica (ff. 1r-9r); Epistles (ff. 9r-35r); with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses. Followed by two more lines of erased rubric, and an added prayer, inc. Omnipotens eterne deus sensuum illuminator et sacramentorum revelator, and a further erasure. Decoration: Decorated wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 183
Title:: Horace, Ars Poetica; Epistles; with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses citing other authors
Scope & Content:: Horace, Ars Poetica, ending incomplete at line 409 with sine divite vena (ff. 1r-9r); Epistles, glosses occupy f. 9v (ff. 10r-42r); Ars Poetica, from line 410 to the end (ff. 42v-43v); with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses citing other authors. Spaces for initials. Probably formerly ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1471
Extent:: Paper codex

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 185
Title:: Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:: Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi (ff. 1r-105r). Spaces left for headings and coloured initials.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Paper codex

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