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Name Marsh, Charles, FSA, 1735-1812

1. 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

2. Burney MS 144

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 144
Title:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Includes added anonymous wedding speech, 15th century, inc. Nuptias pretores magni et cives peregrigii et vos ceteri dominique qui in hoc cœtu ornatissimo (ff. 1r-2r); Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Oration to the Doge of Venice, added after 1455, inc. Cum ab illustrissimis parentibus meis iussus fuerim...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

3. Burney MS 154

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 154
Title:
Cicero, Philippics, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Cicero, Philippics, omitting 5.12-6.6 (from legatorum mentionem to nunquam vidi at f. 57v line 12) (ff. 1r-122v). Decoration: Decorated with initials in gold with white vine-stem ornament on a deep blue ground (ff. 1r, 10r, 37r, 46v, 50r, 58r, 63v, 70v, 74v, 81r, 91v, 99v, 113r), the lower mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

4. Burney MS 160

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 160
Title:
Cicero, De Oratore
Scope & Content:
Cicero, De Oratore (ff. 1r-166v). Decoration: Decorated with six- and seven-line vine-stem initials pen-drawn in plain ink (ff. 50r, 122r); the first page with the arms of Maffei of Volterra within a wreath, added in the lower margin, as in Burney MS 161, and a foliate initial contemporary wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1425, after 1421
Extent:
Parchment codex

5. Burney MS 201

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 201
Title:
Livy, Ab urbe condita.
Scope & Content:
Two copies of Livy's History of Rome bound together in the 18th century. Part 1 (ff. 1r-108v) contains Books 1-10 copied by a late-14th-century hand, Part 2 (ff. 109r-417r) contains Book 1-10 and 21-30 in a 15th-century copy made around 1464. Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Donato degli Albanzani, Tabula...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1375-1464
Extent:
One volume

6. Burney MS 204

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 204
Title:
Lucan, De Bello Civili
Scope & Content:
Lucan, De Bello Civili (ff. 1r-109r); preceded by a four-line epitaph of Lucan, inc. Corduba me genuit rapuit Nero prelia dixi (see Munk Olsen 1985, p. 21, no. 45b). Decoration: 1 large initial with a partial foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 1r). Large and small initials in blue with re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century-Early 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

7. Burney MS 211

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 211
Title:
Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri novem
Scope & Content:
Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri novem (ff. 1r-102v); followed by an alphabetically ordered table regarding the preceding text (ff. 103r-123r); and a table of chapters (ff. 123r-124r). Decoration: Decorated with initials in plain red. Headings in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Parchment and paper codex

8. Burney MS 214

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 214
Title:
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII
Scope & Content:
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII (ff. 4r-90r); preceded (ff. 1r-2r) by two inserted paper leaves with 18th-century notes on Paulus Orosius, perhaps in the hand of Anthony Askew, in English, and by a chapter list, in Latin (ff. 4r-10v); followed by an excerpt from Book 5 cha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1434
Extent:
Parchment codex

9. Burney MS 215

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 215
Title:
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII, imperfect; followed by an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history
Scope & Content:
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII (ff. 1r-68v), ending imperfectly in 7.9 (at domi fortisque); followed by an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69r-73v), starting imperfectly (at lxx. et genuit Thara et vixit priusquam genuit Thara annos cc et xxiiii). Dec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1235
Extent:
Parchment codex