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101. 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

102. Burney MS 174

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 174
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae
Scope & Content:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 2r-237v); followed without break (ff. 237v-239v) by the preface. Decoration: Probably by ‘Benedictus’, a follower of Jacopo da Fabriano, who decorated London, V&A Museum, L.935-1951, and who signed the illumination of Vatican, Barb. Lat. 180, dated 1464, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

103. Burney MS 175

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 175
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae
Scope & Content:
List of chapters (ff. 1r-2v); Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 3r-200v), followed without break (ff. 201r-202v) by the preface. Decoration: Attributed by de la Mare perhaps to Cristoforo de Predis. Decorated with 1 large initial 'P'(lutarchus) with foliate decoration in the style of 'white v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1465
Extent:
Parchment codex.

104. 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

105. Burney MS 177

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 177
Title:
Horace, Odes; Epodes; Carmen Saeculare; Ars Poetica; Epistles; Satires
Scope & Content:
Horace, Odes (ff. 1r-31v); Epodes (ff. 31v-36v); Carmen Saeculare (ff. 36v-37r); Ars Poetica (ff. 37r-42v); Epistles (ff. 42v-60r); Satires (ff. 60r-83v). Decoration: Decorated with a zoomorphic initial ‘M’ in the form of two birds drinking from a chalice (f. 1r), a large initial in red (f. 37...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

106. 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

107. 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

108. Burney MS 180

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 180
Title:
Horace, Odes; Epodes; Carmen Saeculare; Ars Poetica; Satires; Epistles
Scope & Content:
Horace, Odes (ff. 1r-63v); Epodes (ff. 63v-76v); Carmen Saeculare (ff. 76v-78r); Ars Poetica (ff. 78v-88r); Satires (ff. 88r-130v); Epistles (ff. 130v-160v). Decoration: Decorated with a partial border rising from a gold vase, and a matching lower border with an almond-shaped shield, whose ori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

109. Burney MS 181

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 181
Title:
Horace, Odes; Epodes; Carmen Saeculare; preceded by the Life of Horace, attributed here to Petrus Crinitus
Scope & Content:
Horace, Odes (ff. 5r-78v); Epodes (ff. 79r-93v); Carmen Saeculare (ff. 94r-95v); preceded by the Life of Horace, attributed here to Petrus Crinitus, inc. Q Horatius Flaccus in Venusio Apuliae oppido natus est (ff. 1r-4r). Decoration: Decorated predominantly in dull colours with six-line facete...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

110. 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