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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Burney MS Language Latin Name Monro, John, MD; physician and specialist in insanity, 1715-1791

1. Burney MS 179

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 179
Title:
Horace, Carmina; Carmen Saeculare; Epodes; Ars Poetica; Satires; Epistles; and Hymns to St Nicholas for Vespers, Matins, and Lauds
Scope & Content:
Horace, Carmina (ff. 1r-43r); Carmen Saeculare (ff. 43r-44r); Epodes (ff. 44r-52v); Ars Poetica (ff. 53r-59r); Satires (ff. 59v-87r); Epistles (ff. 87r-107v); followed by Hymns to St Nicholas for Vespers, Matins, and Lauds, added in cursive script, 13th century. inc. Pange lingua graciosi, Nicho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

2. Burney MS 243

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 243
Title:
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria; Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino of Verona
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r- 234v: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria (Institutes of Oratory). The fifth gathering (ff. 35-42) is a later insertion to complement a lost gathering, written in a late 15th- or early 16th-century humanistic cursive hand. ff. 235r-v: Table of contents of the Inst...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3. Burney MS 276, ff 43r-44v

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 276, ff 43r-44v
Title:
XII: Two fragments from Book 1 of Vergil's Aeneid
Scope & Content:
Vergil, Aeneid 1.133-202 (ff 43r-v) and 1.467-502 (ff 44r-v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

2 folios

4. Burney MS 276, ff 45r-46v

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 276, ff 45r-46v
Title:
XII: Commentary on the Satires of Persius
Scope & Content:
Two leaves from a Latin commentary on the Satires of Persius, covering Satire 1, lines 6-33. The text does not match that of the Commentum Cornuti.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

2 folios