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Container Reference (shelfmark) Burney MS Place Florence, Italy Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Burney MS 244

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 244
Title:
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-214r: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (b. c. 35, d. c. 100), Institutio Oratoria (Institutes of Oratory), beginning with the Letter to Tryphonus and a list of incipits to Book 1. The explicit occurs on f. 212v, followed by an erroneously omitted passage of Book 1.1-2 on the inserted...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1450
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Burney MS 248

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 248
Title:
L. Annaeus Seneca, De beneficiis, De clementia; Pseudo-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-106v: L. Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65 AD), De beneficiis (On Benefits). ff. 107r-126v: L. Annaeus Seneca, De clementia (On Clemency). ff. 127r-130v: Pseudo-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca’s Letters to St Paul and St Paul’s Letters to Seneca)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex