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1. Burney MS 134

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 134
Title:
Censorinus, De Die Natali, Priscian, Praeexercitamina, Boethius, De Topicis Differentiis, Treatise on the year and its parts according to the Roman calendar
Scope & Content:
Censorinus, De Die Natali (ff. 1r-29v, and excerpts from the same work on ff. 48r-57r), Priscian, Praeexercitamina (ff. 30r-37r), Boethius, De Topicis Differentiis (ff. 37v-47r), Treatise on the year and its parts according to the Roman calendar (ff. 57v-59v). Formerly bound preceding Burney MS...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

2. Burney MS 213

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 213
Title:
Pomponius Mela, De Chronographia; Caius Julius Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; and other texts
Scope & Content:
A humanistic collection of late antique geographical and grammatical texts from the 15th century. Contents: ff. 1r-23r: Pomponius Mela, De chorographia. (‘Pomponii Mellę de cosmographia liber primus incipit’).. ff. 23v-25v: Anonymous account of a journey from Venice to Tana, datable to 140...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

3. Burney MS 224

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 224
Title:
Ovid, Metamorphoses with preface and commentary by Arnulf of Orléans and other poetic texts
Scope & Content:
A copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses, with prologue and commentary by Arnulf of Orleans (d. 1003) with other satellite texts on classical mythology. Contents: f. 2r: Arnulf of Orleans, Prologue to Metamorphoses. (Printed by Fausto Ghisalberti, ‘Arnolfo d'Orléans: un cultore di Ovidio nel secolo XII’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
One volume

4. Burney MS 233

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 233
Title:
Selected Excerpts from Priscian
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-119v: Priscian, Excerpts from his Institutiones grammaticae, (Books XVII and XVIII: De constructione) In the first section (ff. 4-67v) with sporadic, but sometimes extensive original and added marginal and interlinear glosses. f. 119v: 'Tres digiti scribunt cetera membra dolen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
One volume

5. Burney MS 234

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 234
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, imperfect
Scope & Content:
An incomplete 12th-century copy of one of the most popular Latin grammars of the Middle Ages. Contents: ff. 1r-144v: Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, imperfect; with a four-line heading, barely legible.; ending imperfect in Book 9 at in .v. famaque [catchword:] finitimos. Decoration: Se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:

One volume.

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

7. 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

8. 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