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1. Burney MS 182

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

2. Burney MS 190

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 190
Title:
Juvenal, Persius, Satires
Scope & Content:
Juvenal, Satires (ff. 2r-79r); Persius, Satires (ff. 79r-92v). Decoration: Decorated with a full border on a gold ground, incorporating putti, a unicorn, and an escutcheon; two four-line initials in gold on a coloured ground (ff. 2r, 79r); two-line initials in plain blue or absent. Decoration...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

3. Burney MS 195

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 195
Title:
Juvenal, Satires
Scope & Content:
Juvenal, Satires (ff. 2r-78v), the order of the last two reversed. Decoration: Decorated sporadically with red initials, the first with crude pink ornament (f. 2r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

4. Burney MS 200

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 200
Title:
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita; with Tables of Donato degli Albanzani
Scope & Content:
Livy, Ab Urbe Condita (ff. 13r-348v), incomplete and rearranged: Books 21-30 (ff. 13r-130v), Books 1-10 (ff. 131r-251r), and Books 31-32, 34-40 (ff. 251v-348v), ending incomplete in 40.37 (at omnia fora conciliabula que edixerunt); preceded by Tables of Donato degli Albanzani (ff. 1r-12v); follo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1440
Extent:
Paper codex, with one parchment bifolium (ff. 13, 22)

5. Burney MS 232

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 232
Title:
Sextus Pompeius Festus, Epitome of Verrius Flaccus, De significatu uerborum
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–89v: Sextus Pompeius Festus, Epitome of Verrius Flaccus, De significatu uerborum. ff. 90r–92r: followed by an anonymous compilation of memorable deeds and sayings. Decoration: Spaces left for coloured initials. Headings in pale red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
26 May 1447
Extent:
Paper codex

6. 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