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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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 165
Title:: Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes; De Finibus; Academica, Book I
Scope & Content:: Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes (ff. 1r-91v); De Finibus (ff. 93r-178v); Academica, Book I (ff. 178v-186v). Decoration: Decorated with seven- or eight-line gold initials with white vine-stem ornament on a red, green, and blue ground (ff. 1r, 93r); later four- to seven-line gold initials on re...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: c 1470
Extent:: Parchment codex

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 167
Title:: Claudian, Carmina Maiora
Scope & Content:: Claudian, Carmina Maiora; in the order: In Rufinum, with the preface to Book II and the end (ff. 3r-17v); De Bello Gildonico (ff. 17v-25v); De Bello Getico (ff. 25v-35v); Gigantomachia (ff. 36r-37v); De Consulatu Stilichonis (ff. 38r-57r); In Eutropium (ff. 57r-75r); Fescennina de Nuptiis Honori...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 168
Title:: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni (ff. 1r-179v). Lacunae are marked by the main scribe (e.g. ‘hic deest: & sic in omnibus exemplaribus reperitur’, f. 169r; elsewhere a nine-line gap is marked ‘nihil deest’, f. 171v). Decoration: Decorated with a six-line gold initial with wh...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 169
Title:: Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant, a French translation of Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated into French by Vasco da Lucena (b. c. 1435, d. 1512) as Livre des Fais d’Alexandre le Grant and dedicated to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433, d. 1477). ff. 1r-10r: Table of contents with incipit stating the translator's nam...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1468-1475
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 170
Title:: Dictys of Crete, Ephemeris Belli Troiani
Scope & Content:: Dictys of Crete, Ephemeris Belli Troiani (ff. 2v-72r); preceded (f. 2r) by the letter from Lucius Septimius, but without the prologue printed in Eisenhut’s Teubner edition. All but the last two words of f. 43r repeat the text on the facing page, and the former was therefore marked ‘vacat’. Spa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Parchment text

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 171
Title:: Aelius Donatus, Commentum Terenti
Scope & Content:: Aelius Donatus, Commentum Terenti; includes: Vita Terenti (ff. 1r-2r); Euanthius, De Fabula (ff. 2r-5v); Aelius Donatus, In Andriam (ff. 6r-46v); In Eunuchum (ff. 47r-95v); In Adelphos (ff. 96r-147v); In Hecyram (ff. 147v-180r); In Phormionem (ff. 180r-205v). Spaces left for initials
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Paper codex

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