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231. 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

232. 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

233. 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

234. 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

235. 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

236. Burney MS 242

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 242
Title:
Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; Filippo Beroaldo, hendecasyllabic verse; Hieronymus Salius Faventinus, verse
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was copied from a printed edition of the Elegiae (Elegies) of Sextus Propertius (b. c. 50, d. c. 16 BC). This is clear because of the added poems by Filippo Beroaldo the Elder (b. 1453, d. 1505) and Hieronymus Salius Faventinus (d. 1509) at the end of the Elegiae, which also appe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1493-c 1525
Extent:
Parchment codex

237. Burney MS 243

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 243
Title:
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria; Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino of Verona
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r- 234v: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria (Institutes of Oratory). The fifth gathering (ff. 35-42) is a later insertion to complement a lost gathering, written in a late 15th- or early 16th-century humanistic cursive hand. ff. 235r-v: Table of contents of the Inst...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

238. Burney MS 244

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 244
Title:
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-214r: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (b. c. 35, d. c. 100), Institutio Oratoria (Institutes of Oratory), beginning with the Letter to Tryphonus and a list of incipits to Book 1. The explicit occurs on f. 212v, followed by an erroneously omitted passage of Book 1.1-2 on the inserted...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1450
Extent:

A parchment codex

239. Burney MS 245

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 245
Title:
C. Sallustius Crispus, Bellum Jugurthinum, Bellum Catilinae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-54r: C. Sallustius Crispus (b. 86 BC, d. c. 35 BC), Bellum Jugurthinum (The Jugurthine War). ff. 55r-81v: C. Sallustius Crispus, Bellum Catilinae (Catiline's War). [f. 54v is blank]. Decoration: 2 large white vine initials, in colours and gold on blue ground at the start of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:
A parchment codex

240. Burney MS 246

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 246
Title:
Sedulius, Carmen paschale; Turcius Rufus Asterius, note and poem
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Sedulius (fl. 450), Epistula ad Macedonium (Letter to Macedonius), beginning: 'Priusquam me venerabilis pater'. f. 3r: Turcius Rufius Apronianus Asterius (fl. 494), note on the revision of Sedulius's work, followed by short poem, the latter beginning: ‘Sume sacer meritis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

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