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21. Burney MS 80

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 80
Title:
Philosophical extracts
Scope & Content:
Heraclides Lembus' extracts from Aristotle, Politeia, extracts from Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, and Aelian, De natura animalium, and Epictetus, Enchiridion. The manuscript was identified as part of codex f of Aelian's Varia Historia by Dilts (1965) pp. 67-68
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

59 folios

22. Burney MS 81

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 81
Title:
Heron of Alexandria, Pneumatica
Scope & Content:
Heron of Alexandria, Pneumatica (TLG 0559.001), with extensive Latin marginal annotations and many pen diagrams, ff 2r-41v. Preceded on f 1r by an extract from Vitruvius, De architectura 9.9, inc. Item sunt ex aqua, expl. ex aqua comparationes explicuit.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

41 folios

23. Burney MS 82

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 82
Title:
Hesiod, Works and Days (TLG 0020.002)
Scope & Content:
Hesiod, Works and Days (TLG 0020.002), with a few marginal variants and several lines erased.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

28 folios

24. Burney MS 84

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 84
Title:
Proclus of Athens, In Platonis Alcibiadem I (TLG 4036.007), imperfect
Scope & Content:
Proclus of Athens, In Platonis Alcibiadem I (TLG 4036.007). Imperfect, inc. φησὶν ἀνενδεής. οὐκοῦν ὅτι μὲν ὁ εὐδαίμων (p. 10413) and expl. συνοῖδεν ὅτι τὸ μὲν (p. 16820). Erroneously attributed to Iamblichus in the manuscript, marginal title ᾽Εκ τῶν τοῦ ᾽Ιαμβλίχου μυστηρίων.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

22 folios

25. Burney MS 85

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 85
Title:
Isocrates, Speeches, and other works
Scope & Content:
Speeches by Isocrates and Lysias, and gnomic literature
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

91 folios

26. Burney MS 86

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 86
Title:
Townley Homer
Scope & Content:
Iliad of Homer, with extensive marginal and interlinear scholia (ff 1r-281v). Later added inscriptions and ownership marks, including: Engraved portrait of Charles Townley, 1812 (f iv recto). Partly erased 15th-century Italian accounts in Latin (f v recto). Engraving of a bust of Homer found...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
?1059
Extent:

281 folios

27. Burney MS 87

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 87
Title:
Isocrates, Ad Nicoclem (TLG 0010.013), imperfect, with interlinear Latin translation
Scope & Content:
Isocrates, Ad Nicoclem (TLG 0010.013), imperfect. On ff 1r-2r the first two chapters (expl. περὶ τοῦ βίου καθ' ἑκάστην) have been copied, in a very corrupt version. The text begins again, in another hand, on ff 3v-10r, 11r-25v, breaking off (ch. 12) πρὸς ἀρετὴν ὠφελήσαιμεν and resuming (ch. 19) τ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4rd quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

26 folios

28. Burney MS 88

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 88
Title:
Libanius, Epistulae (TLG 2200.001)
Scope & Content:
247 letters of Libanius.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

124 folios

29. Burney MS 89

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 89
Title:
Lycophron, Alexandra, with the commentary of Ioannes or Isaac Tzetzes, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Lycophron, Alexandra, with the commentary of Ioannes or Isaac Tzetzes, imperfect.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

48 folios

30. Burney MS 93

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 93
Title:
Manuel Moschopoulos, Erotemata, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Manuel Moschopoulos, Erotemata. Imperfect, expl. ῾Η παθητικὴ, ὁ ζευγνύμενος.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

117 folios