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Project / Collection Burney Manuscripts Name Gellius, Aulus, author and grammarian, c 125-after 180 Level [40] File

1. Burney MS 174

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 174
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae
Scope & Content:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 2r-237v); followed without break (ff. 237v-239v) by the preface. Decoration: Probably by ‘Benedictus’, a follower of Jacopo da Fabriano, who decorated London, V&A Museum, L.935-1951, and who signed the illumination of Vatican, Barb. Lat. 180, dated 1464, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

2. Burney MS 175

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 175
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae
Scope & Content:
List of chapters (ff. 1r-2v); Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 3r-200v), followed without break (ff. 201r-202v) by the preface. Decoration: Attributed by de la Mare perhaps to Cristoforo de Predis. Decorated with 1 large initial 'P'(lutarchus) with foliate decoration in the style of 'white v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1465
Extent:
Parchment codex.

3. Burney MS 176

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 176
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae
Scope & Content:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 1r-172r), followed (ff. 172r-173v) without break by the preface; added anonymous alphabetical index, on paper (ff. 174r-189v). Decoration: Decorated with a faceted initial enmeshed in knotwork designs, in colours on a gold field with cusped edges (f. 2r), the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment and paper codex

4. Burney MS 191

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 191
Title:
Juvenal, Satires; preceded by various texts
Scope & Content:
Juvenal, Satires (ff. 3r-81v), densely annotated throughout by more than one humanistic hand; preceded by anonymous distich on love (f. 1r); excerpt from Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 19.9.12 (f. 2r); anonymous verses in praise of Francis, Duke of St. Angelo, son of Ferdinand I, king of Naples,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1464
Extent:
Paper codex