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61. Burney MS 132

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 132
Title:
Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentaries, with the continuations
Scope & Content:
Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico in seven books (ff. 2r-91v), followed by book VIII (ff. 92r-106v) by Aulus Hirtius; De Bello Civili (ff. 106v-178r); followed by continuations attributed in antiquity to Caesar: De Bello Alexandrino (ff. 178r-202r); De Bello Africo (ff. 202r-231r); De Bello ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

62. Burney MS 133

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 133
Title:
Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poems
Scope & Content:
Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poems (ff. 1r-60r), followed by six lines of anonymous verse (ff. 60r-60v). Alternative readings and comments on the text are added in the margins from a corrected exemplar by the main scribe only as far as 64:183 (f. 37v), where, in a smaller less formal script a cropp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

63. Burney MS 134

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 134
Title:
Censorinus, De Die Natali, Priscian, Praeexercitamina, Boethius, De Topicis Differentiis, Treatise on the year and its parts according to the Roman calendar
Scope & Content:
Censorinus, De Die Natali (ff. 1r-29v, and excerpts from the same work on ff. 48r-57r), Priscian, Praeexercitamina (ff. 30r-37r), Boethius, De Topicis Differentiis (ff. 37v-47r), Treatise on the year and its parts according to the Roman calendar (ff. 57v-59v). Formerly bound preceding Burney MS...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

64. Burney MS 135

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 135
Title:
Cicero, De Amicitia, Paradoxa Stoicorum, De Senectute (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Cicero, De Amicitia (ff. 1r-28r), Paradoxa Stoicorum (ff. 28v-41r), De Senectute (ff. 41v-60v) (ends imperfect in 18 at honestissimum). Infrequent annotations and corrections in humanistic script. There is an erasure in the lower margin of f. 1r. Headings in red capitals; spaces left for large...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

65. Burney MS 136

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 136
Title:
Cicero, Selected Philosophical Works
Scope & Content:
Includes added list of twelve ‘Notabilia in Tullio De Amicitia’ (f. 1v), Cicero, De Amicitia, with marginal and interlinear glosses (for the first gloss see Olsen 1982, p. 115, no. 46a) (ff. 3r-31v), excerpts from the Paradoxa Stoicorum (see Olsen 1982, p. 116 no. 83) (ff. 32r-33v); lists of nam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

66. Burney MS 137

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 137
Title:
Cicero, De Amicitia, De Officiis, Paradoxa Stoicorum, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Cicero, De Amicitia (ff. 1r-12v); De Officiis, with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses (ff. 14r-52v); Paradoxa Stoicorum, with marginal and interlinear glosses, f. 55v blank except for ‘ibi n(ullus) e(st) defect(us)’ (ff. 53r-58v); six six-line epitaphs of Cicero, inc. Hic iacet Aprinas ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1473
Extent:
Paper codex

67. Burney MS 138

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 138
Title:
Cicero, De Amicitia, De Senectute, Paradoxa Stoicorum
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-30v. De amicitia. Tit. M. T. C. de amicicia ad Acticum [sic]. ff. 31-58v. De senectute. Tit. M. T. C. de senectute ad T. Athicum. [sic] ff. 59-72. Paradoxa. Tit. M. T. Ciceronis ad Brutum.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1450-1460
Extent:
Parchment codex.

68. Burney MS 139

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 139
Title:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares
Scope & Content:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ff. 1r-226r). Marginalia in humanistic script, often with side-lining in the form of a triple dot above a slightly curved line; sporadic corrections, marginal headings, and other annotations; Greek (or spaces for Greek) usually marked in the margin with a ‘.G.’ ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

69. Burney MS 140

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 140
Title:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares
Scope & Content:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ff. 2r-193v); preceded (f. 1r) by a table giving the dates of Easter from 1480 to 1831, with numbers for March in red and for April in black. Sporadic 15th- and 16th-century marginalia, including ‘A di 26 mazo Mdxxxiij’ (f. 108v). Decoration: Decorated with a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

70. Burney MS 141

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 141
Title:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ff. 1r-114v), lacking 5.2.6-5.5.3 (from ‘istum ve[hementer]’ to ‘Atque ipsum’) due to the loss of a leaf after f. 25r. Inscribed in near contemporary script (before the loss of a leaf after f. 25r) with a leaf-count: ‘nu(mer)o 115 cartar(um)’ (f. 114v). Marginal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex