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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Burney MS Name Bracciolini, Poggio, scholar and humanist, 1380-1459, http://viaf.org/viaf/19722038 Level [40] File

1. Burney MS 139

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 139
Title:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares
Scope & Content:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ff. 1r-226r). Marginalia in humanistic script, often with side-lining in the form of a triple dot above a slightly curved line; sporadic corrections, marginal headings, and other annotations; Greek (or spaces for Greek) usually marked in the margin with a ‘.G.’ ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

2. Burney MS 226

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 226
Title:
Humanistictexts and translations
Scope & Content:
A humanistic miscellany comprising texts and translations by 15th-century humanist scholars.Contents: ff. 2r-7v: Pseudo-Plato, Axiochus sive de morte, translated intoLatin by Rudolph Agricola, begins ‘Exeunti ad Cvnosarges mihi cum adIllissum’. This MS preserves the earliest version of Agricola'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
One volume

3. 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