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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 333

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Burney MS 333
Title:
Breviary, Vallumbrosan Use
Scope & Content:
Vallumbrosan Breviary with miniatures in the style of Boccardino il Vecchio. Contents: pp. 1-127: Psalms, with antiphons. ('Incipit psalterium componitum secundum morem et ordinem Vallis Umbrose'). pp. 127-134: Canticles, etc.: Te deum, Benedicite, Magnificat, Benedictus, Nunc dimittis, Glori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

One volume

3. Burney MS 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 9
Title:
Bible with prologues
Scope & Content:
Bible with prologues. Imperfect at the end (in Romans 16:20) and elsewhere. Some repairs use fragments from other leaves; f. 364 almost totally cut away. Chapters start on new lines, and chapter numbers are inset into the text space. Decoration: 1 zoomorphic initial, in colours, at the begi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

4. Burney MS 31

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 31
Title:
Pauline Epistles with prologues
Scope & Content:
Pauline Epistles with prologues. Decoration: Large and small initials decorated in red or unfinished.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

5. Burney MS 277

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Burney MS 277
Title:
Collection of Fragments
Scope & Content:
f. 1: Excerpt from Augustine's Retractationes (II. 4) probably from the beginning of a 15th-century humanist manuscript of Augustine's De doctrina Christiana (original foliation f. 165)where it is usually preserved as an introduction.ff. 2-3: Two leaves from a small manuscript of Ovid's Tristia (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Undetermined
Date Range:
14th-15th century
Extent:
Collection of parchment folios mounted and bound in a volume.

6. Burney MS 264

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Burney MS 264
Title:
Terence, Comedies
Scope & Content:
Terence, Comedies, preceded by arguments and prologues: ff. 1r-29v; Andria ff. 30r-74v: Eunuchus ff. 75r-115r: Heautontimorumenos ff. 115r-144r: Adelphoe ff. 145r-177r: Hecyra, ff. 177v-205v: Phormio Decoration: 2 puzzle initials in red and blue (f. 1r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex.

7. Burney MS 284

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 284
Title:
Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Historia Tripertita
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-144v: Anastasius Bibliothecarius: Historia Tripertitaff. 2-3: Prologue. Inc. "Ecclesiasticam, carissime frater et digne..." Expl. "quod ei secundum vires offertur"ff. 3-143v: Historia Tripertita with list of emperors. bishops and biblical books moved from the end of Nicephorus's Chronicle (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 11th century or 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

8. Burney MS 305

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 305
Title:
Poetic Anthology in Latin
Scope & Content:
f. 1: Poetee admonitio lectori de opere suo. Inc. Semper ut ipse scias quod ego tibi, tu mihi fias, Unicus en operis arbiter hujus eris f. 1: De Vae quorundam. Inc. Ve misere menti scelus in se semper habenti. Ve menti misere quae manet in scelere ff. 1v-2: De praevaricatione liberi arbitrii. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

9. Burney MS 334

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 334
Title:
Book of Hours, use ofSarum
Scope & Content:
Book of Hourse in the use of Sarum Contents: ff. 1r-6r: Calendar;major feasts (in red) include Cornelius, bishop (31 Mar.); others includeWilliam of York (8 Jan., 8 June), Lambert of Neuwerk (9 Feb.), Oswald of York(28 Feb.), and Wilfrid of York (24 Apr.). f. 6v: blank ff. 7r-54v: Hours ofth...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume.

10. Burney MS 385

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 385
Title:
Commentaries on Lucian
Scope & Content:
ff. 3r-59v: Commentary on Lucian's Dialogi mortuorum, in Latin. ff. 60r-77v: Commentary on Lucian's Dialogi deorum, in Latin. Imperfect, expl. in dialogue 23.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

77 folios.