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271. Burney MS 352

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 352
Title:
Lorenzo Valla, OnElegance in Latin
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2-149: LorenzoValla, De elegantia linguae Latinae imperfect(Book I-III. 61), interrupting at “culpam in te ibi omnem”. (as publishedLorenzo Valla, Elegantiarum libri sex,(Paris, Collin, 1527), pp. 1-202.) Decoration: Large initials, most simple penwork initials inred or dark brown ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1473
Extent:
One volume.

272. Burney MS 353

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 353
Title:
Antonius Vegnatus, On Warfare
Scope & Content:
A presentation copy ofa humanistic treatise on warfare. Contents: ff. 2-11: AntoniusVegnatus, De re militari. Imperfect. Dedication to Antonio Barbarigo Doge of Venice, begins 'Tanta tua est cunctis in rebus precipue inreipublicae florentissimae gubernatione…' (f. 2r), ends '…Quae te principe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1486-1501
Extent:
One volume

273. Burney MS 354

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 354
Title:
Extracts from the Corpus Juris Canonici with Glossa Ordinaria
Scope & Content:
f. 2v: Verses, extracted from Virgil (Georgics 2.459; 3.66); Pythagoras (Carmen Aureum) etc. ff. 2v-3: Copy of an order by King Henry VIII to Richard Nykke, bishop of Norwich ff. 3v-4v: Verses on the calculation of Easter with prologue in prose. inc. Fistulat haec duplici celer astat glos feriend...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

274. Burney MS 355

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 355
Title:
Ascetic works of John Cassian rephrased by Denys the Carthusian.
Scope & Content:
A 15th-centuryCarthusian rewriting of the fifth century ascetic discourses of John Cassian. Contents: ff. 1r-52r: John Cassian, Institutes of the Coenobia rephrased by Denys the Carthusian. f. 1r.Prologue of Denys Begins ‘Declaratio sermonum tuorum illuminat. Ends primoa prologo eius.’ Text ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1478-1479
Extent:
One volume.

275. Burney MS 356

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 356
Title:
Theological Miscellany entitled Flos florum.
Scope & Content:
A collection of popular theological and devotional works, known as Flower of Flowers (Flos Florum) from early-15th-century England. Contents: ff. 1r-1v: blank f. 2r: List of contents of Book 1, beginning ‘In hoc libro qui flos florum juste appellatur’, imperfect, ending at Chapter XVI, 'Ca[pi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume.

276. Burney MS 357

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 357
Title:
Theological and devotional miscellany
Scope & Content:
A composite miscellany of three parts with theological and devotional texts, all originating from the same twelfth-century manuscript belonging to the Cistercian abbey of Thame Park. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Mico Centulensis, Opus prosodiacum (imperfect: the florilegium ends in the letter 'C'). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1150 - c 1200
Extent:
A parchment codex.

277. Burney MS 357, ff. 1-4

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 357, ff. 1-4
Title:
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

278. Burney MS 357, ff. 5-12

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 357, ff. 5-12
Title:
Scope & Content:
ff. 5-11: Anselm of Canterbury, De Conceptu Virginali (Imperfect: chapter 1-11).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

279. Burney MS 358

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 358
Title:
Collection of Scholastic Questions
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-2v: William de la Maire, Quaestiones Disputatae XXVI: Quaestio XXIII-XXVI. (fragment) Inc. ...ergo non est electa vita. Expl. "Ad ix. et ultimum nihil dico, quia bene concludit, ut mihi videtur." "Expliciunt quaestiones fratris G. de la Maire ordinis fratrum minorum." ff. 2v-16: Bartholomew...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

280. Burney MS 359

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 359
Title:
Devotional miscellany
Scope & Content:
A collection of devotional works from early-14th-century England. Contents: ff. 1r-19r: Richard Rolle, Judica me Deus, begins ‘Judica me Deus… – A Deo, qui scrutatur et renes et cor, volo judicari.’ (pritned in Daly (1984), pp. 1-79) ff. 19v-31v: De duodecim utilitatibus tribulationis, begins...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
One volume.