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1. Burney MS 17

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Burney MS 17
Title:
Glossed Proverbs, and Glossed Ecclesiastes with prologues
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was most likely written around the mid-12th century in France. It contains the Book of Proverbs and the Book of Ecclesiastes with marginal and interlinear glosses. Contents: ff. 1r-22r: A prologue to the Book of Proverbs (glossed). ff. 22r-74r: The Book of Proverbs (glossed)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2. Burney MS 28

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Burney MS 28
Title:
Glossed Gospel of Mark
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of Mark with interlinear and marginal Gloss. The manuscript’s provenance suggests that it was most likely produced in England. Contents: ff. 1r-111r: The Gospel of Mark with marginal and interlinear gloss. [f. 111v is an empty leaf]. Decora...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3. Burney MS 29

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Burney MS 29
Title:
Gospel of Luke with Glossa Ordinaria;St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-110r: Evangelium Secundum Lucam (The Gospel of St Luke), with the Glossa Ordinaria (Ordinary Gloss) in the margins, beginning of the Gospel: 'Quoniam quidem multi conati sunt'; beginning of the Ordinary Gloss: 'Vitulus sacerdotalis est hostia', including an interlinear gloss. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4. Burney MS 42

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Burney MS 42
Title:
Ambrosiaster, Commentaria in Epistolas Beati Pauli
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century English manuscript contains the Commentaria in Epistolas Beati Pauli (Commentary on the Pauline Epistles), a 4th-century work that is considered to be an important source for the reception of the Pauline Epistles before St Augustine of Hippo. The Commentaria was written by an u...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

5. Burney MS 216

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Burney MS 216
Title:
Paulus Orosius, Historia Adversus Paganos (imperfect); Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Constantinus Africanus, De Melancholia; Peter Abelard, Carmen ad Astralabium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-88v: Paulus Orosius, Historia Adversus Paganos (History Against the Pagans), imperfect, starting at a Nino beli filio rege Assyriorum; preceded by a capitula list (ff. 2v-4v). ff. 89r-93v: Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia (On the destruction of Troy), followed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

6. Burney MS 275

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Burney MS 275
Title:
Scholastic miscellany
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a high-quality production of scholastic texts important in Parisian university learning in the early fourteenth century, where it was made for Franciscus Caracciolo of Naples, chancellor of Paris (chancellor 1309, d. 1316), to give to his patron, King Robert of Naples (b. 1278...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1309-1316
Extent:

Parchment codex.

7. Burney MS 317

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Burney MS 317
Title:
Pope Gregory I, Homiliae in Ezecheliem; Excerpt from the Creed of the 11th Council of Toledo (675)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of the Homiliae in Ezecheliem (Homilies on Ezekiel), in two books, written by Pope Gregory I (b. c 540, d. 604), followed by an excerpt from the Creed of the 11th Council of Toledo (675) (ff. 168v-169v). It has been copied in the last quarter of the 11th century. The par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

8. Burney MS 326

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Burney MS 326
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Etymologiae (Etymologies), also known as Origenes (Origins), by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636). This is an encyclopedic work that discusses the origin of words related to the liberal arts and a vast range of other subjects. The manuscript appears to have been...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

9. Burney MS 340

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Burney MS 340
Title:
Origen of Alexandria, Homilies on Numbers 15-19
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was written at a scriptorium in Northern France, most likely the Benedictine abbey of Corbie, in the 4th quarter of the 7th century. It was certainly in the abbey's library from the 12th century onward. In 1638 the manuscript was transferred to the Benedictine abbey of St-Germain...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 7th century
Extent:
A parchment codex