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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 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 4
Title:
Bible; the Interpretations of Hebrew names, synoptic table of biblical parallels
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two parts: the original part contains the Old and New Testament of the Latin Vulgate (ff. 1-249, 273-656). The younger part (ff. 250-277*, ff. 657-667) seems to have been added in the second half of the 14th century to replace lost or damaged parts of the Old Testamen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3. Burney MS 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 11
Title:
Remigius of Auxerre, Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum; Bible (without Psalms)
Scope & Content:
This is a composite manuscript made up of two originally separate parts (ff. 1-53; ff. 54-525). The first part (ff. 1-53) contains the Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum (Interpretations of Hebrew names) of Remigius of Auxerre (b. 841, d. 908), as well as shorter texts and notes added in the 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4. 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

5. Burney MS 236

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 236
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae; Aelius Donatus, Ars grammatica; treatises on rhetoric and grammar.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts about grammar, as well as several anonymous texts and verses on theological topics added towards the end. The main text is the Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar) by Priscian (fl. 500), followed by a part of the Ars grammatica (The Art...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

6. Burney MS 237

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 237
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, (books 17-18); Pseudo-Priscian, De accentibus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two texts about Latin grammar: the two last books of the Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar) of Priscian (fl. c. 500), often called the Priscianus minor (Lesser Priscian), as in the added title on f. 2v; and De accentibus (On Accents) by Pseudo-Priscian (fl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Burney MS 238

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 238
Title:
‘Master Guido’, Glosulae super Priscianum minorem; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Didascalicon
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two fragments of texts on grammar and learning: one of three known parts of the Glosulae super Priscianum minorem (Gloss on Priscianus Minor) of the unidentified ‘Master Guido’ (fl. c. 1100-1125), and Didascalicon de studio legendi (Didascalion, or, On the Study of Readi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter 12th century-3rd quarter 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

8. Burney MS 239

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 239
Title:
Cornelius Nepos, Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51r: Cornelius Nepos (b. c. 110 BC, d. c. 25 BC), Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium (Lives of Eminent Commanders), including the lives from Miltiades to Hannibal, beginning: 'Non dubito fore plerosque'. f. 51r: Æmilius Probus (fl. c. 379-395), verse dedication o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1435-c 1450
Extent:
A parchment codex

9. Burney MS 241

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 241
Title:
Sextus Propertius, Elegiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript largely consists of the four books of Elegiae (Elegies) by the poet Sextus Propertius (b. c. 50, d. c. 16 BC). They are followed by a late medieval anonymous derivative of the first book of Propertius’ Elegiae (also known as the Monobiblos, or ‘Single book’, because of its sole f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

10. Burney MS 242

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 242
Title:
Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; Filippo Beroaldo, hendecasyllabic verse; Hieronymus Salius Faventinus, verse
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was copied from a printed edition of the Elegiae (Elegies) of Sextus Propertius (b. c. 50, d. c. 16 BC). This is clear because of the added poems by Filippo Beroaldo the Elder (b. 1453, d. 1505) and Hieronymus Salius Faventinus (d. 1509) at the end of the Elegiae, which also appe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1493-c 1525
Extent:
Parchment codex