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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Burney MS Name Edwards, James, bookseller of London, 1756-1816

1. Burney MS 15

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 15
Title:
Bilingual psalter (Rahlfs 1658)
Scope & Content:
Bilingual psalter (Rahlfs 1658).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:

266 folios

2. Burney MS 18

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 18
Title:
Four Gospels and Hebrews (Gregory-Aland 480; Scrivener evan. 568; von Soden δ 462), adapted for liturgical use, imperfect, followed by Synaxarion and Menologion
Scope & Content:
Four Gospels and Hebrews (Gregory-Aland 480; Scrivener evan. 568; von Soden δ 462), adapted for liturgical use, imperfect, followed by Synaxarion and Menologion.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4 Jun 1366
Extent:

222 folios

3. Burney MS 61

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 61
Title:
Collection of works by Greek lyric poets
Scope & Content:
Collection of works by Greek lyric poets, including Anacreon, Alcaeus, Sappho, Stesichorus, and Ibycus. Occasional marginal notes with variants of Henri Estienne and T. Faber.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

118 folios

4. 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

5. Burney MS 152

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 152
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of Cicero's De officiis from 1468. Contents: ff. 1r-100r: Cicero, De Officiis with spaces left for rubrics and for large initials at the start of each book (ff. 1r, 43r, 68r) which were left uncompleted. Annotated in Humanistic hands, sometimes in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1468
Extent:

One volume

6. Burney MS 176

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 176
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae
Scope & Content:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 1r-172r), followed (ff. 172r-173v) without break by the preface; added anonymous alphabetical index, on paper (ff. 174r-189v). Decoration: Decorated with a faceted initial enmeshed in knotwork designs, in colours on a gold field with cusped edges (f. 2r), the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment and paper codex

7. Burney MS 179

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 179
Title:
Horace, Carmina; Carmen Saeculare; Epodes; Ars Poetica; Satires; Epistles; and Hymns to St Nicholas for Vespers, Matins, and Lauds
Scope & Content:
Horace, Carmina (ff. 1r-43r); Carmen Saeculare (ff. 43r-44r); Epodes (ff. 44r-52v); Ars Poetica (ff. 53r-59r); Satires (ff. 59v-87r); Epistles (ff. 87r-107v); followed by Hymns to St Nicholas for Vespers, Matins, and Lauds, added in cursive script, 13th century. inc. Pange lingua graciosi, Nicho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

8. Burney MS 182

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 182
Title:
Horace, Ars Poetica; Epistles; with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses
Scope & Content:
Horace, Ars Poetica (ff. 1r-9r); Epistles (ff. 9r-35r); with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses. Followed by two more lines of erased rubric, and an added prayer, inc. Omnipotens eterne deus sensuum illuminator et sacramentorum revelator, and a further erasure. Decoration: Decorated wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

9. Burney MS 184

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 184
Title:
Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi; An incomplete anonymous alphabetical index
Scope & Content:
Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi, annotated with contemporary marginal headings (ff. 2r-103v); An incomplete anonymous alphabetical index, from Arbactus to Becta urbs (ff. 104r-104v). The MS is a palimpsest, the lower text appears to be an 11th-century Italian sacramentary (ff. iv rect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1469
Extent:
Parchment codex

10. Burney MS 185

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 185
Title:
Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:
Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi (ff. 1r-105r). Spaces left for headings and coloured initials.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Paper codex