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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 277
Title:: Collection of Fragments
Scope & Content:: f. 1: Excerpt from Augustine's Retractationes (II. 4) probably from the beginning of a 15th-century humanist manuscript of Augustine's De doctrina Christiana (original foliation f. 165)where it is usually preserved as an introduction.ff. 2-3: Two leaves from a small manuscript of Ovid's Tristia (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Undetermined
Date Range:: 14th-15th century
Extent:: Collection of parchment folios mounted and bound in a volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 278
Title:: Justinian, Corpus iuris civilis, including three books of the Digest: Digestum vetus, Infortiatum, and Tres partes
Scope & Content:: Justinian, Corpus iuris civilis, including three books of the Digest: Digestum vetus (ff. 9r-206r), Infortiatum (ff. 207r-318v), and Tres partes (ff. 318v-356v), prefaced by a list of capitula covering the contents of both the manuscript and of Burney MS 279 (ff. 1r-8r). Originally the first h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 279
Title:: Justinian, Corpus iuris civilis, including the Digestum novum, the Codex Justinianus, Institutiones, and Novellae constitutiones post codicem
Scope & Content:: Justinian, Corpus iuris civilis, including the Digestum novum (ff. 1r-121v), the Codex Justinianus (ff. 122r-276v), Institutiones (ff. 277r-307r), and Novellae constitutiones post codicem (ff. 307r-378v). Originally the second half of a single volume bound with Burney MS 278. Decoration: 6 hi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 280
Title:: Historia Alexandri Magni, Dares Phrygius, De bello Troiano, Martinus Polonus, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, ending imperfectly
Scope & Content:: Historia Alexandri Magni (ff. 1r-20v), Dares Phrygius, De bello Troiano (ff. 20v-38v), Martinus Polonus, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, ending imperfectly (ff. 38v-117v). Offsets of Hebrew on f. i recto. Decoration: Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew and Latin
Date Range:: Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 281
Title:: Victor of Cartenna, Liber de Poenitentia; Didymus the Blind, De Spiritu Sancto, with preface by Jerome; Paschasius Deacon, De Spiritu Sancto; Augustine, Sermons, and other theological works
Scope & Content:: Victor of Cartenna, Liber de Poenitentia (ff. 1r-38r); Didymus the Blind (in Jerome's translation), De Spiritu Sancto, with preface by Jerome (ff. 38r-81r); Paschasius Deacon, De Spiritu Sancto (ff. 81r-112r); Augustine, Sermons, and other theological works (ff. 81r-127r). Decoration: Large fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 282
Title:: Ambrose, De fide, De Spiritu Sancto, and De incarnationis dominicae sacramento
Scope & Content:: Ambrose, De fide (ff. 1r-70r), De Spiritu Sancto (ff. 70r-116r), and De incarnationis dominicae sacramento (ff.116r-127r). Decoration: Large initials, 1 in colours on a gold ground, and the other puzzle initials in red and blue. Guide letters.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 283
Title:: St Ambrose of Milan, De officiis ministrorum
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-26v: St Ambrose of Milan, De officiis ministrorum Books 1-3. Inc. "Non arrogans videri arbitror" Expl. "plurimum instructionis conferat". (CPL 144)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 284
Title:: Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Historia Tripertita
Scope & Content:: ff. 2-144v: Anastasius Bibliothecarius: Historia Tripertitaff. 2-3: Prologue. Inc. "Ecclesiasticam, carissime frater et digne..." Expl. "quod ei secundum vires offertur"ff. 3-143v: Historia Tripertita with list of emperors. bishops and biblical books moved from the end of Nicephorus's Chronicle (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: last quarter of the 11th century or 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 285
Title:: Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-4r: Anselm of Canterbury: Epistola de sacrificio azimi et fermentati (PL 158, 541-548; F. S. Schmitt, S. Anselmi Opera omnia, vol. 2, (Rome 1940), p. 223-232 f. 4r: Extracts on Human Conception and Soul ("De conceptione humana loquitur Beda dicens"). A collection of three extracts: Burna...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

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