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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Burney MS Name FitzRoy, Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister, 28 Sep 1735-14 Mar 1811 Level [40] File

1. Burney MS 158

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 158
Title:
Cicero, In Verrem
Scope & Content:
Cicero, In Verrem (ff. 2r-219v); followed by another line of rubric, erased, the middle word is probably ‘de’. Decoration: Decorated with five-line initials in gold with white vine-stem decoration on a gold, red, blue, and green ground, the first seven-line, and with a partial border (ff. 2r, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

2. Burney MS 167

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

3. 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

4. Burney MS 221

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 221
Title:
Ovid, Fasti
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r-147r: Ovid, Fasti. Decoration: 5 large white vine initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of each book (ff. 2r, 23r, 48v, 74r, 102r, 123v), the first with a matching full white vine border, incorporating overpainted heraldic arms.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1460
Extent:
One volume