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541. 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

542. 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

543. 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.

544. 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

545. Burney MS 236

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 236
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae; Aelius Donatus, Ars grammatica; treatises on rhetoric and grammar.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts about grammar, as well as several anonymous texts and verses on theological topics added towards the end. The main text is the Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar) by Priscian (fl. 500), followed by a part of the Ars grammatica (The Art...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

546. Burney MS 237

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 237
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, (books 17-18); Pseudo-Priscian, De accentibus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two texts about Latin grammar: the two last books of the Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar) of Priscian (fl. c. 500), often called the Priscianus minor (Lesser Priscian), as in the added title on f. 2v; and De accentibus (On Accents) by Pseudo-Priscian (fl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

547. Burney MS 238

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 238
Title:
‘Master Guido’, Glosulae super Priscianum minorem; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Didascalicon
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two fragments of texts on grammar and learning: one of three known parts of the Glosulae super Priscianum minorem (Gloss on Priscianus Minor) of the unidentified ‘Master Guido’ (fl. c. 1100-1125), and Didascalicon de studio legendi (Didascalion, or, On the Study of Readi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter 12th century-3rd quarter 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

548. Burney MS 239

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 239
Title:
Cornelius Nepos, Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51r: Cornelius Nepos (b. c. 110 BC, d. c. 25 BC), Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium (Lives of Eminent Commanders), including the lives from Miltiades to Hannibal, beginning: 'Non dubito fore plerosque'. f. 51r: Æmilius Probus (fl. c. 379-395), verse dedication o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1435-c 1450
Extent:
A parchment codex

549. Burney MS 240

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 240
Title:
Cornelius Nepos, Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum gentium
Scope & Content:
A copy of Cambridge, Trinity College MS 826, a 15th-century copy of the lives of Cornelius Nepos as explained in a note on f. 1 'written from a very ancient MSS in trin. Coll. Library Cant.'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
Paper manuscript

550. Burney MS 241

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 241
Title:
Sextus Propertius, Elegiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript largely consists of the four books of Elegiae (Elegies) by the poet Sextus Propertius (b. c. 50, d. c. 16 BC). They are followed by a late medieval anonymous derivative of the first book of Propertius’ Elegiae (also known as the Monobiblos, or ‘Single book’, because of its sole f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

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