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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Burney MS Name Pinelli, Maffeo, of Venice, book-collector, 1736-1785 Level [40] File

1. Burney MS 78

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 78
Title:
Aphthonius and Hermogenes, with prologues and scholia by Maximus Planudes
Scope & Content:
Aphthonius, Progymnasmata (TLG 4100.001), and Hermogenes, Περὶ στάσεων (TLG 0592.002), Περὶ εὑρέσεως [Sp.] (TLG 0592.003), Περὶ ἰδεῶν λόγου (TLG 0592.004). Prologues and scholia by Maximus Planudes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

215 folios

2. Burney MS 84

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 84
Title:
Proclus of Athens, In Platonis Alcibiadem I (TLG 4036.007), imperfect
Scope & Content:
Proclus of Athens, In Platonis Alcibiadem I (TLG 4036.007). Imperfect, inc. φησὶν ἀνενδεής. οὐκοῦν ὅτι μὲν ὁ εὐδαίμων (p. 10413) and expl. συνοῖδεν ὅτι τὸ μὲν (p. 16820). Erroneously attributed to Iamblichus in the manuscript, marginal title ᾽Εκ τῶν τοῦ ᾽Ιαμβλίχου μυστηρίων.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

22 folios

3. Burney MS 108

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 108
Title:
Military and technical treatises
Scope & Content:
Aelian, Tactica; Leo VI, Tactica;Heron of Alexandria, Pneumatica, De automatis.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

100 folios

4. Burney MS 152

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 152
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of Cicero's De officiis from 1468. Contents: ff. 1r-100r: Cicero, De Officiis with spaces left for rubrics and for large initials at the start of each book (ff. 1r, 43r, 68r) which were left uncompleted. Annotated in Humanistic hands, sometimes in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1468
Extent:

One volume

5. 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

6. Burney MS 182

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 182
Title:
Horace, Ars Poetica; Epistles; with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses
Scope & Content:
Horace, Ars Poetica (ff. 1r-9r); Epistles (ff. 9r-35r); with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses. Followed by two more lines of erased rubric, and an added prayer, inc. Omnipotens eterne deus sensuum illuminator et sacramentorum revelator, and a further erasure. Decoration: Decorated wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

7. Burney MS 185

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 185
Title:
Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:
Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi (ff. 1r-105r). Spaces left for headings and coloured initials.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

8. Burney MS 195

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 195
Title:
Juvenal, Satires
Scope & Content:
Juvenal, Satires (ff. 2r-78v), the order of the last two reversed. Decoration: Decorated sporadically with red initials, the first with crude pink ornament (f. 2r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

9. Burney MS 213

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 213
Title:
Pomponius Mela, De Chronographia; Caius Julius Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; and other texts
Scope & Content:
A humanistic collection of late antique geographical and grammatical texts from the 15th century. Contents: ff. 1r-23r: Pomponius Mela, De chorographia. (‘Pomponii Mellę de cosmographia liber primus incipit’).. ff. 23v-25v: Anonymous account of a journey from Venice to Tana, datable to 140...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

10. Burney MS 215

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 215
Title:
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII, imperfect; followed by an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history
Scope & Content:
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII (ff. 1r-68v), ending imperfectly in 7.9 (at domi fortisque); followed by an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69r-73v), starting imperfectly (at lxx. et genuit Thara et vixit priusquam genuit Thara annos cc et xxiiii). Dec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1235
Extent:
Parchment codex