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221. 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

222. Burney MS 227

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 227
Title:
Plautus, Comedies; with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:
Plautus, Comedies; with prologues, arguments and a short life. Contents: f. 2r: Publius Nigidius, as quoted in Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 15.14, followed by the epitaph from Plautus’s tombstone, as quoted in Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 1.24. ff. 3r-20v: Plautus, Amphitruo, preceded (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1440
Extent:
One volume

223. Burney MS 228

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 228
Title:
Plautus, Comedies; with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of the collected comedies of Plautus. Contents: ff. 1r-19v: Amphitruo, preceded (f. 1) by two arguments. ff. 20r-35v: Asinaria, preceded (f. 20) by a prologue and an acrostic argument. ff. 36r-50r: Aulularia, preceded (f. 36) by two arguments, the second an acrostic. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
One volume

224. Burney MS 229

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 229
Title:
Pliny the Younger, Letters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3r: Johannes Mansionarius of Verona, Note on the two Plinys. (‘Brevis annotatio de duobus Pliniis Veronensibus.’) beginning ‘Plinii duo fuisse noscuntur eodem nomine et prenominibis appellati’. (Printed in Elmer Truesdell Merrill, ‘On the Eight-Book Tradition of Pliny's Letters...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume

225. Burney MS 230

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 230
Title:
Pliny the Younger, Letters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-111v. Epistolae, 1-7 and 9. Imperfect, lacking 2.3.3–6.5 (from ‘manus ha[bui]’ to ‘si gulae’) due to the loss of a leaf after f. 16. This is one of the manuscripts that has the note about Poggio Braccolini's discovery of Silius Italicus (f. 32r; cf. Mynors, Pliny the Younger ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-1469
Extent:
One volume

226. Burney MS 231

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 231
Title:
Aurelius Victor, De Viris Illustribus; Pliny the Younger, Letters (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16r: Aurelius Victor, On famous men, attributed to Pliny, (‘Plinii secundi Veronensis de viris illustribus liber incipit feliciter.’) ff. 17r-86r: Pliny, Letters, imperfect, lacking 2.10.6-2.10-15 (from 'saltem quo magis' to 'nimium est enim'), due to the loss of a leaf after ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

One volume.

227. Burney MS 232

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 232
Title:
Sextus Pompeius Festus, Epitome of Verrius Flaccus, De significatu uerborum
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–89v: Sextus Pompeius Festus, Epitome of Verrius Flaccus, De significatu uerborum. ff. 90r–92r: followed by an anonymous compilation of memorable deeds and sayings. Decoration: Spaces left for coloured initials. Headings in pale red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
26 May 1447
Extent:
Paper codex

228. Burney MS 233

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 233
Title:
Selected Excerpts from Priscian
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-119v: Priscian, Excerpts from his Institutiones grammaticae, (Books XVII and XVIII: De constructione) In the first section (ff. 4-67v) with sporadic, but sometimes extensive original and added marginal and interlinear glosses. f. 119v: 'Tres digiti scribunt cetera membra dolen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
One volume

229. Burney MS 234

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 234
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, imperfect
Scope & Content:
An incomplete 12th-century copy of one of the most popular Latin grammars of the Middle Ages. Contents: ff. 1r-144v: Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, imperfect; with a four-line heading, barely legible.; ending imperfect in Book 9 at in .v. famaque [catchword:] finitimos. Decoration: Se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:

One volume.

230. Burney MS 235

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 235
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae,
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the works on Latin grammar by Priscian (fl. 500), in two parts sometimes called the Priscianus Major (Greater Priscian) and the Priscianus Minor (Lesser Priscian). The latter part is also sometimes, as in this copy, referred to as De constructione (On Construction). The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1434-1499
Extent:
A parchment codex

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