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Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 166
Title:: Claudian, Carmina Maiora
Scope & Content:: Claudian, Carmina Maiora; in the order: In Rufinum (ff. 1r-12v), with the preface to Book II at the end (f. 12v); De Bello Gildonico (ff. 12v-19v); In Eutropium (ff. 19v-34r); Fescennina de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti (ff. 34r-35v); Epithalamium de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti (ff. 35v-40r); Panegyricus ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 167
Title:: Claudian, Carmina Maiora
Scope & Content:: Claudian, Carmina Maiora; in the order: In Rufinum, with the preface to Book II and the end (ff. 3r-17v); De Bello Gildonico (ff. 17v-25v); De Bello Getico (ff. 25v-35v); Gigantomachia (ff. 36r-37v); De Consulatu Stilichonis (ff. 38r-57r); In Eutropium (ff. 57r-75r); Fescennina de Nuptiis Honori...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 168
Title:: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni (ff. 1r-179v). Lacunae are marked by the main scribe (e.g. ‘hic deest: & sic in omnibus exemplaribus reperitur’, f. 169r; elsewhere a nine-line gap is marked ‘nihil deest’, f. 171v). Decoration: Decorated with a six-line gold initial with wh...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 169
Title:: Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant, a French translation of Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated into French by Vasco da Lucena (b. c. 1435, d. 1512) as Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant and dedicated to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433, d. 1477). ff. 1r-10r: Table of contents with incipit stating the translator's nam...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1468-1475
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 170
Title:: Dictys of Crete, Ephemeris Belli Troiani
Scope & Content:: Dictys of Crete, Ephemeris Belli Troiani (ff. 2v-72r); preceded (f. 2r) by the letter from Lucius Septimius, but without the prologue printed in Eisenhut’s Teubner edition. All but the last two words of f. 43r repeat the text on the facing page, and the former was therefore marked ‘vacat’. Spa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Parchment text

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 171
Title:: Aelius Donatus, Commentum Terenti
Scope & Content:: Aelius Donatus, Commentum Terenti; includes: Vita Terenti (ff. 1r-2r); Euanthius, De Fabula (ff. 2r-5v); Aelius Donatus, In Andriam (ff. 6r-46v); In Eunuchum (ff. 47r-95v); In Adelphos (ff. 96r-147v); In Hecyram (ff. 147v-180r); In Phormionem (ff. 180r-205v). Spaces left for initials
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 172
Title:: Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome de T. Livio Bellorum omnium annorum DCC, imperfect; Eutropius, Breviarum ab urbe condita; Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana
Scope & Content:: Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome de T. Livio Bellorum omnium annorum DCC, imperfect except for the last few words, now covered and obscured by another sheet of paper (f. 1r); Eutropius, Breviarum ab urbe condita (ff. 1v-60r); Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana (ff. 60r-90v). f. 1 consists of two le...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1460
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 173
Title:: Frontinus, Strategemata
Scope & Content:: Frontinus, Strategemata (ff. 1r-76v). Decoration: 1 large white vine initial, in colours and gold, extending into a partial border (f. 1r). Small initials in plain red. Headings in pale red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1461
Extent:: Paper codex

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

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.

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