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Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 127
Title:: Nicolas Floyd, Ραψῳδία βιβλικὰ
Scope & Content:: Nicolas Floyd of Winchester College, Ραψῳδία βιβλικὰ. Passages from the Bible converted into Greek and Latin parallel verses (ff 3r-77r). Followed (f 78r) by a hymn to God in the style of Anacreon. Preceded (ff 1r-2v) by a letter of dedication to John Harris, D.D., warden of Winchester College, a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1652
Extent:: 78 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 128
Title:: Apuleius, Metamorphoses
Scope & Content:: Apuleius, Metamorphoses. Decorations: 1 large foliate initial, in colours (f. 2r). Small initials alternately red with purple flourishing, or blue with red flourishing. Paraphs alternately red or blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 129
Title:: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, with Italian interlinear glosses. Decoration: 5 large puzzle initials in red and blue, with red and blue, or brown, penwork (ff. 1r, 8v, 19r, 34v, 48r), the first partly filled-in with a thin shell gold wash. Small initials in red or blue, sometimes wit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 130
Title:: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Scope & Content:: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. Decoration: Decorated in gold and colours with a seven-line historiated initial depicting a half-length male figure (Boethius?) pointing to the book he holds, with a three-sided foliate border incorporating an escutcheon with arms (f. 3r); 2 large puzzle...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 131
Title:: Nicholas Trevet, Commentary on Boethius' De consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-79v. Nicholas Trevet: Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae. f. 1r Inc. 'Explicationem librorum Boetii de consolacione philosophica...' f. 79v. Expl.: 'Amen. Et sic terminatur liber quintus continens prosas sex et metra quinque. Et sunt universaliter in libro toto prose ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 132
Title:: Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentaries, with the continuations
Scope & Content:: Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico in seven books (ff. 2r-91v), followed by book VIII (ff. 92r-106v) by Aulus Hirtius; De Bello Civili (ff. 106v-178r); followed by continuations attributed in antiquity to Caesar: De Bello Alexandrino (ff. 178r-202r); De Bello Africo (ff. 202r-231r); De Bello ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 133
Title:: Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poems
Scope & Content:: Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poems (ff. 1r-60r), followed by six lines of anonymous verse (ff. 60r-60v). Alternative readings and comments on the text are added in the margins from a corrected exemplar by the main scribe only as far as 64:183 (f. 37v), where, in a smaller less formal script a cropp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 134
Title:: Censorinus, De Die Natali, Priscian, Praeexercitamina, Boethius, De Topicis Differentiis, Treatise on the year and its parts according to the Roman calendar
Scope & Content:: Censorinus, De Die Natali (ff. 1r-29v, and excerpts from the same work on ff. 48r-57r), Priscian, Praeexercitamina (ff. 30r-37r), Boethius, De Topicis Differentiis (ff. 37v-47r), Treatise on the year and its parts according to the Roman calendar (ff. 57v-59v). Formerly bound preceding Burney MS...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 135
Title:: Cicero, De Amicitia, Paradoxa Stoicorum, De Senectute (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Cicero, De Amicitia (ff. 1r-28r), Paradoxa Stoicorum (ff. 28v-41r), De Senectute (ff. 41v-60v) (ends imperfect in 18 at honestissimum). Infrequent annotations and corrections in humanistic script. There is an erasure in the lower margin of f. 1r. Headings in red capitals; spaces left for large...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 136
Title:: Cicero, Selected Philosophical Works
Scope & Content:: Includes added list of twelve ‘Notabilia in Tullio De Amicitia’ (f. 1v), Cicero, De Amicitia, with marginal and interlinear glosses (for the first gloss see Olsen 1982, p. 115, no. 46a) (ff. 3r-31v), excerpts from the Paradoxa Stoicorum (see Olsen 1982, p. 116 no. 83) (ff. 32r-33v); lists of nam...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

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