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1. Burney MS 147

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 147
Title:
Cicero, De Amicitia, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Cicero, De Amicitia (imperfect); lacking most of 25-26 (from magis [catchwords id diceres, erased] to est et uoluntarium) due to the loss of a leaf after f. 16. Following the end of the text have been added (probably in the 15th century) two lines from the rubric which often precedes the hymn ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

2. Burney MS 149

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 149
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis; an added quotation from Varro, De Lingua Latina
Scope & Content:
Cicero, De Officiis (ff. 2r-92r); followed by an added quotation from Varro, De Lingua Latina, 9.47 (f. 93v). Occasionally annotated in humanistic script by contemporary readers. Decoration: Decorated with fine seven- or eight-line gold initials with white vine-stem decoration on a ground of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

3. Burney MS 162

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 162
Title:
Cicero, De Inventione; preceded by Grillius, In Ciceronis Libros de Inventione, excerpt; Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Cicero, De Inventione (ff. 5r-106r); preceded by Grillius, In Ciceronis Libros de Inventione 1.17 (ff. 1r-4r) (see Olsen 1982, p. 132 no 489; cf. Burney MS 164); Rhetorica ad Herennium (ff. 107r-187v). Decoration: Decorated with five- to nine-line rudimentary vine-stem/interlace initials on pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

4. Burney MS 163

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 163
Title:
Rhetorica ad Herennium; Cicero, De Amicitia; Somnium Scipionis; De Senectute; Paradoxa Stoicorum
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a grammatical treatise (f. 1v); Rhetorica ad Herennium (ff. 2r-54v); Cicero, De Amicitia (ff. 55r-71r); Somnium Scipionis (ff. 72r-75v); De Senectute (ff. 76r-90v); Paradoxa Stoicorum (ff. 90v-97v). Spaces left for initials, filled-in only in the third and fourth gatherings, sporadi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

5. Burney MS 164

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 164
Title:
Rhetorica ad Herennium; Grillius, In Ciceronis Libros de Inventione, excerpt
Scope & Content:
Rhetorica ad Herennium (ff. 1r-65r); Grillius, In Ciceronis Libros de Inventione 1.17 (ff. 65r-67r) (cf. Olsen 1982, p. 132 no. 489). Sporadic marginal and interlinear glosses in humanistic hands. Decoration: Decorated with five- to seven-line initials in blue with red penwork ornament, or vi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

6. Burney MS 166

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 166
Title:
Claudian, Carmina Maiora
Scope & Content:
Claudian, Carmina Maiora; in the order: In Rufinum (ff. 1r-12v), with the preface to Book II at the end (f. 12v); De Bello Gildonico (ff. 12v-19v); In Eutropium (ff. 19v-34r); Fescennina de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti (ff. 34r-35v); Epithalamium de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti (ff. 35v-40r); Panegyricus ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

7. Burney MS 173

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 173
Title:
Frontinus, Strategemata
Scope & Content:
Frontinus, Strategemata (ff. 1r-76v). Decoration: 1 large white vine initial, in colours and gold, extending into a partial border (f. 1r). Small initials in plain red. Headings in pale red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1461
Extent:
Paper codex

8. Burney MS 178

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 178
Title:
Selected works of Horace and other literary texts.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-2r: Suetonius, Vita Horati, here attributed to Pier Candido Decembrio by a later hand: 'Est P. Candidi Oratii vita.' (cf. Munk Olsen, L’étude des auteurs classiques latins, I, p. 429 no. 108), begins 'Septuagesimo etatis anno...’ ends ‘...Acron tamen ceteris eruditius.’ ff. 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. 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

10. Burney MS 193

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 193
Title:
Juvenal, Persius, Satires
Scope & Content:
Juvenal, Satires (ff. 2r-68r); Persius, Satires (ff. 69r-80v). Decoration: Large initials in colours on a gold ground (f. 2r) or in gold on a red, green, and blue ground (ff. 5r, 7v, 13v, etc.). Partial white vine borders (ff. 2r, 69r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quater of 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex