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21. Burney MS 104

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 104
Title:
Commentary on and introduction to Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
Scope & Content:
Commentary on Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos (edited by Wolf 1559), tit. Ἐξήγησις εἰς τὸν τετράβιβλον τοῦ Πτολεμαίου, ff 3r-120v. Followed (ff 121v-128v) by Porphyrius, Introductio in tetrabiblum Ptolemaei (TLG 2034.028), imperfect, expl. ἄρξει μεγάλου ἀποστελέσματος.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1543
Extent:

128 folios

22. Burney MS 105

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 105
Title:
Pappas of Alexandria, Synagoge, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Pappas of Alexandria, Synagoge, imperfect, including extracts from the Mechanica of Heron of Alexandria.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

240 folios

23. Burney MS 106

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 106
Title:
Sophocles, Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone; [Aeschylus], Prometheus Vinctus; Pindar, Olympia
Scope & Content:
Sophocles, Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone; [Aeschylus], Prometheus Vinctus; Pindar, Olympia.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

111 folios

24. Burney MS 108

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 108
Title:
Military and technical treatises
Scope & Content:
Aelian, Tactica; Leo VI, Tactica;Heron of Alexandria, Pneumatica, De automatis.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

100 folios

25. Burney MS 109

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 109
Title:
Works by Theocritus, Hesiod, Pindar, Pythagoras and Aratus
Scope & Content:
Works by Theocritus, Hesiod, Pindar, Pythagoras and Aratus.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

165 folios

26. Burney MS 110

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 110
Title:
Zenobius, Epitome collectionum Luculli Tarrhaei et Didymi (TLG 0098.001)
Scope & Content:
Zenobius, Epitome collectionum Luculli Tarrhaei et Didymi (TLG 0098.001).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

55 folios

27. Burney MS 111

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 111
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia (TLG 0363.009)
Scope & Content:
Ptolemy, Geographia (TLG 0363.009), ff 3r-114r. Many diagrams and coloured maps. Preceded on f 2v by four epigrams on the Geography by Maximus Planudes, and followed on f 114r by heroic verses on the poem, inc. Ἐν γραμμαῖς τὸν κόσμον ἀριθμηθέντα νόησον.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

114 folios

28. Burney MS 127

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

29. Burney MS 169

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 169
Title:
Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant, a French translation of Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:
Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated into French by Vasco da Lucena (b. c. 1435, d. 1512) as Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant and dedicated to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433, d. 1477). ff. 1r-10r: Table of contents with incipit stating the translator's nam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1468-1475
Extent:

1 volume

30. Burney MS 276

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 276
Title:
Collection of fragments
Scope & Content:
Fragments of Greek and Latin manuscripts, mostly of classical and patristic authors.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
11th century-17th century
Extent:

46 folios