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171. 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

172. 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

173. 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

174. Burney MS 247

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 247
Title:
Poetic compilation: Sedulius, Carmen paschale, hymns; Prudentius, Psychomachia, Cathemerinon, Peristephanon, Dittochaeon; Marbod of Rennes, Passio sanctorum martyrum Felicis et Audacti; Pseudo-Hilary of Poitiers, Epistola ad Abram filiam suam.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Notes on the manuscript in French, mainly written by Barthélemy Mercier (b. 1734, d. 1799), abbot of Saint-Leger and librarian of Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, on smaller pieces of 18th-century paper inserted at the beginning of the first quire. ff. 4r-7v: Sedulius (fl. 450), E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1465
Extent:
A paper codex

175. Burney MS 248

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 248
Title:
L. Annaeus Seneca, De beneficiis, De clementia; Pseudo-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-106v: L. Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65 AD), De beneficiis (On Benefits). ff. 107r-126v: L. Annaeus Seneca, De clementia (On Clemency). ff. 127r-130v: Pseudo-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca’s Letters to St Paul and St Paul’s Letters to Seneca)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

176. Burney MS 249

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 249
Title:
L. Annaeus Seneca Maior (Seneca the Elder), Controversiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-126v: L. Annaeus Seneca Maior (Seneca the Elder) (b. 54 BC, d. c. 39 AD), Controversiae (Disputes), with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses, beginning: 'Exigitis rem magis iocumdam'. [ff. 127r-129v are blank]. Decoration: 37 large and medium calligraphic initials in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

177. Burney MS 250

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 250
Title:
Nicholas Trevet, Commentary on Seneca’s Tragedies (incomplete); Hildebert of Le Mans, Epithaphium Senecae; L. Annaeus Seneca (and Pseudo-Seneca), Tragoediae; Coluccio Salutati, Letter concerning Seneca
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Nicholas Trevet (b. c 1258, d. c 1334), Commentaria in Senecae Tragoedias (Commentary on Seneca’s Tragedies), beginning: ‘Tria genera theologie distingui a Varrone’. f. 4r: L. Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65 AD), De materia et ordine tragediarum (On the Matter and Order of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1387
Extent:
A paper codex

178. Burney MS 251

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 251
Title:
Philosophical Miscellany
Scope & Content:
A collection of popular works on moral philosophy from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. ff. 1r-9r: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De clementia, beginning 'Scribere de clementia, Nero Caesar, institui.' ending '…in rectum prava flectantur.' (printed (Lucius Annaeus Seneca De clementia libri duo, edit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
One volume.

179. Burney MS 252

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 252
Title:
Selected works of Seneca inLatin and Catalan.
Scope & Content:
A collection of authenticand spurious works by Seneca in Latin original and in Catalan translation. Contents: ff. 1-4v: Correspondence of Seneca and St Paul theApostle: Epistles 1-14. ff. 4v-8v: Correspondence of Seneca and St Paul theApostle: Epistles 1-14 in Catalan. f. 9: Jerome, On Senec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Catalan and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume.

180. Burney MS 253

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 253
Title:
Philosophical and theological miscellany
Scope & Content:
A collection of devotional and prophetic writings from 14th-century England. Contents ff. 1r-33r: Pope Innocence III, De miseria humanae conditionis (printed in Patrologia Latina 217, 701-746) ff. 33v-39v: Ps.-Seneca (Publilius Syrus), Proverbia, begins. 'Alienum est quod optando evenit…' end...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
One volume.