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41. Burney MS 74

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 74
Title:
Letters and Orations of Demosthenes, Aeschines, Plato, Philip II of Macedon, and Dion, translated by Leonardo Bruni, with prefaces
Scope & Content:
Letters and Orations of Demosthenes, Aeschines, Plato, Philip II of Macedon, and Dion, translated by Leonardo Bruni, with prefaces. Vertical catchwords. Decoration: 1 large gold initial on a blue and red ground, with sprays of foliage in the margin. Large puzzle initials in red and blue. Smal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1462
Extent:
Parchment codex

42. Burney MS 77

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 77
Title:
Latin translation of Hephaestion, Enchiridion, by Vincente Mariner Valentine, with descriptions, a preface, and a translated Latin epigram
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r-7v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Preface addressed to Francisco de Rioja, librarian and poet. Latin. ff. 8r-8v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Epigram addressed to Francisco de Rioja, with a Latin translation. ff. 9r-136v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Latin translation of Hephaestian's Enchi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1639
Extent:

140 folios.

43. Burney MS 81

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 81
Title:
Heron of Alexandria, Pneumatica
Scope & Content:
Heron of Alexandria, Pneumatica (TLG 0559.001), with extensive Latin marginal annotations and many pen diagrams, ff 2r-41v. Preceded on f 1r by an extract from Vitruvius, De architectura 9.9, inc. Item sunt ex aqua, expl. ex aqua comparationes explicuit.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

41 folios

44. Burney MS 83

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 83
Title:
Commentary of Hierocles on Pythagoras's Verba Aurea
Scope & Content:
Commentary of Hierocles on Pythagoras's Verba Aurea in the Latin translation of Giovanni Aurispa. ff. 1-76v: Commentary of Hierocles on the Verba Aurea of Pythagoras. Inc. 'Sapientiae studium est quod in purgatione et perfectoine'. Expl. 'quamvis tarde eam tamen aquiramus'. ff. 76v-78r: Pythag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex.

45. 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

46. Burney MS 90

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 90
Title:
John Crouch, Commentary on Lycophron's Alexandra
Scope & Content:
John Crouch, Commentary on Lycophron's Alexandra. Autograph, written in Latin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:

179 folios.

47. Burney MS 91

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 91
Title:
Miscellany of Greek astronomical texts
Scope & Content:
Miscellany of Greek astronomical texts, with 21 items as follows: f. 1v: Table of contents of Burney 91. Partly in Latin. ff. 3r-3v: Table of contents of Burney 91 and Burney 92 ff. 1r-128v. ff. 4r-6r: Theodoros Meliteniotes, Προοίμιον εἰς ἀστρονομίαν. ff. 6r-7v: Theodoros Meliteniotes, Τί ἐ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

146 folios.

48. Burney MS 99

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 99
Title:
Greek compositions by Sir Ralph Winwood (b. 1562/3, d. 1617)
Scope & Content:
Epitome of Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, followed by Συγκομιδαὶ βραχυτάται (sic) ἐκ τῶν Πλουτάρχου πολιτικῶν. Preceded by a letter of dedication in Latin to Laurence Humphrey (d. 1589), President of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1578-1589
Extent:

20 folios

49. Burney MS 101

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 101
Title:
Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harmonica, and Porphyrius, Commentary on Ptolemaeus' Harmonica
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r-96v: Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harmonica. Diagrams, tables, and an index (ff. 91r-96v; partly in Latin) are included. ff. 97r-172v: Porphyrius, Commentary on Ptolemaeus' Harmonica. Imperfect, lacking the prologue. An index (ff. 169r-172v; partly in Latin) and verses entitled 'De Πτολεmaio (si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

172 folios.

50. Burney MS 107

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 107
Title:
Strabo, Geographica, in the Latin translation of Guarino da Verona, titled De situ orbis
Scope & Content:
Strabo, Geographica, in the Latin translation of Guarino da Verona, titled De situ orbis. Apparently written simultaneously by a large number of scribes who made little effort to coordinate their sections with the others: frequently the end of the stint of one scribe falls far short of the star...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1458-1464
Extent:
Paper codex

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