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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Burney MS Language Latin Name Donati, Family

1. Burney MS 292

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 292
Title:
Augustine, De civitate Dei
Scope & Content:
Augustine, De civitate Dei. Decoration: Title page (f. 1r) and end page (f. 315v) of capitals in alternating colours; a full border of white vine scroll with the arms of the Donati family of Venice inside a wreath in the upper border and hanging from the outside border, and the arms possibly o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1470
Extent:
Parchment codex

2. Burney MS 311

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 311
Title:
Humanist collection of mythological texts
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-57: Lactantius, Narrationes Fabularum Ovidiananrum. Inc. Chaos ut dcit Hesiodus…(Ed. Magnus (1915), pp. 631-721 with ending slightly different from the MS) ff. 57v-58: blank ff. 58-64v: Deorum Agenoelogia (!). Inc. “Demogorgon summus deorum genitor genuit Orionem, et has tres: Cloton, Lach...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1462
Extent:
Paper codex.