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561. Burney MS 252

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 252
Title:
Selected works of Seneca inLatin and Catalan.
Scope & Content:
A collection of authenticand spurious works by Seneca in Latin original and in Catalan translation. Contents: ff. 1-4v: Correspondence of Seneca and St Paul theApostle: Epistles 1-14. ff. 4v-8v: Correspondence of Seneca and St Paul theApostle: Epistles 1-14 in Catalan. f. 9: Jerome, On Senec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Catalan and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume.

562. Burney MS 253

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 253
Title:
Philosophical and theological miscellany
Scope & Content:
A collection of devotional and prophetic writings from 14th-century England. Contents ff. 1r-33r: Pope Innocence III, De miseria humanae conditionis (printed in Patrologia Latina 217, 701-746) ff. 33v-39v: Ps.-Seneca (Publilius Syrus), Proverbia, begins. 'Alienum est quod optando evenit…' end...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
One volume.

563. Burney MS 254

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 254
Title:
Humanistic miscellany
Scope & Content:
A typical humanistic collectionof texts relating to classical ideas of education of the youth. Contents: ff. 1r-11v: RufiusFestus, Breviarium rerum gestarum populiRomani, begins ‘Ruffi Sexti viri consularis rerumgestarum populi Romani, Valentiniano Augusto, liber incipit feliciter.: Pioperpet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume

564. Burney MS 255

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 255
Title:
Humanistic miscellany.
Scope & Content:
A humanistic collectionof texts relating to Roman history. Contents: ff. 1r-11r: RufiusFestus, Breviarium rerum gestarum populiRomani, begins ‘Ruffi Sexti viriconsularis rerum gestarum populi Romani, Valentiniano Augusto, liber incipitfeliciter.: Pio perpetui domino Velntiniano imperatori et s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume.

565. Burney MS 256

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 256
Title:
Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium.
Scope & Content:
A 12th-centurycopy of Solius’s famous work on miracles of the world. Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Caius JuliusSolinus, Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium (A Collection of Miraculous Things),with preface and prologue. (as printed in Mommsen (1895), pp. 1-216.) f. 57v: Anonymous Poem: 'Quem studiitaedet stu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
One volume.

566. Burney MS 257

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 257
Title:
Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais and Achilleis, with scholia by Laurent de Premierfait (alias Laurencius Campannus).
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r-4v: Laurent de Premierfait, compendium to Thebais (ascribed in the manuscript to Laurencius Campannus). ff. 4v-210r: Statius, Thebais (imperfect, wanting Book V, 728-753, Book VI, 1-18, and the rhymed epitome to book VI). ff. 210v-222v: Laurent de Premierfait, a summary of Thebais by ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

567. Burney MS 258

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 258
Title:
Statius, Thebaid, with gloss, accessus, and anonymous vita
Scope & Content:
Statius, Thebaid, with gloss, accessus, and anonymous vita. Decoration: Simple red initials at the beginning of books. Initial capitals sometimes highlighted in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

568. Burney MS 259

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 259
Title:
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus,Lives of the Caesars
Scope & Content:
An elegant humanistcopy of Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars. Contents: ff. Ir-IIIv: blank ff. 1r-149v: CaiusSuetonius Tranquillus, Lives of theTwelve Caesars. f. 149ar-v: blank f. 150r: Burney's table of contents f. 150v: blank ff. Ir-IIIv: blank Decoration: 1 large white vine initial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume.

569. Burney MS 260

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 260
Title:
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, De vita Caesarum
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-130v: Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, de vita Caesarum (Book 3 on Claudius is mislabeled as Claudius). f. 130v: Decimus Magnus Ausonius: De duodecim caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis. 3. Inc. 'Julius ut perhibent divus triateride regnat'. Expl. 'Quindecies saevis potitur dum frat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex.

570. Burney MS 261

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 261
Title:
Terence, Comedies, preceded by prologues and arguments: Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphoe, Hecyra, Phormio
Scope & Content:
Terence, Comedies, preceded by prologues and arguments: Andria (ff. 1v-21v), Eunuchus (ff. 22r-45v), Heautontimorumenos (ff. 46r-68v), Adelphoe (ff. 68v-89r), Hecyra (ff. 89r-108r), Phormio (ff. 108r-130r). Decoration: 1 large initial (excised) (f. 1r), with a three-sided border incorporating ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

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