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631. Burney MS 309

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 309
Title:
Rule of St Benedict and other monastic texts.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-26v: Rule of St Benedict ff. 1-2: Prologue. Inc. “Asculta o fili praecepta magistri tui” ff. 2-3: List of chapters. ff. 3-26v: Text. Inc. “Monachorum quattuor genera.” Expl. “…culmina deo protegente pervenies” (PL 66, 215-930) ff. 27-28v: “Bona lectio et sub compendio ad monachos” Inc. Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

632. Burney MS 310

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 310
Title:
Historical miscellany
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is one of the eight copies made from Durham Cathedral MS. B.ii.35. Content: ff. 1-89v: Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History in Rufinus of Aquleia’s Latin translation ff. 90-158: Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People f. 158-165v: Gildas, Historia Brittonum (at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1381
Extent:
Parchment codex.

633. Burney MS 311

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 311
Title:
Humanist collection of mythological texts
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-57: Lactantius, Narrationes Fabularum Ovidiananrum. Inc. Chaos ut dcit Hesiodus…(Ed. Magnus (1915), pp. 631-721 with ending slightly different from the MS) ff. 57v-58: blank ff. 58-64v: Deorum Agenoelogia (!). Inc. “Demogorgon summus deorum genitor genuit Orionem, et has tres: Cloton, Lach...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1462
Extent:
Paper codex.

634. Burney MS 312

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 312
Title:
Walter of Chatillon, Alexandreis with commentaries.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript isone of the many copies of the 12th-century Latin epic by Walter ofChatillon (d. 1180) retelling the history of Alexander the Great. It was a verypopular school text for education. This copypreserves a school commentary explaining both the form and the content of the poem includ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
One volume.

635. Burney MS 313

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 313
Title:
Gasparino Barzizza, Orthography
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2-123v: GasparinoBarzizza, Liber de orthographia, begins 'Quoniam recta scriptura quam Graeca appellatione orthographiam dicimus,proxime videtur...' ends '...Zoticus per simplicem t, quia sine aspiratione, idem quod vitalis." (printed in Gasparini Pergamensis Orthographiae liber,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume

636. Burney MS 314

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 314
Title:
Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi
Scope & Content:
Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi I-IV. (attributed to Johannes Gerson b. 1363, d. 1429) Tit. Incipit libellus devotus et utilis compositus a domino Johanne Gersem cancellario Parisiensi.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
middle of the 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex.

637. Burney MS 315

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 315
Title:
Remy of Auxerre and other Latin grammatical texts
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-6: Summa de regiminibus. Inc. 'Quoniam ex significatione verbi cognita maxime procedit cognicio regiminis.' Expl. 'Ego lego et Virgilius, tu legis et Appollonius, Apollonius scribit et ego, Tullius scribit et tu.' ff. 6r-6v: Excerpta Grammatica ex Guidonis Summa de dictamine. Inc. 'Nota sec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

638. Burney MS 316

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 316
Title:
Grammatical Treatise in Latin.
Scope & Content:
Anonymous, unedited grammatical treatise similar to related works byGuarino Veronese (1370-1460) and Niccolò Perotti (1429-1480), glossed inItalian. The text, known from a number of other manuscripts, all fromRenaissance Italy, is a full school-level grammatical syllabus, beginning withdiscussio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
third quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume.

639. Burney MS 317

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 317
Title:
Pope Gregory I, Homiliae in Ezecheliem; Excerpt from the Creed of the 11th Council of Toledo (675)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of the Homiliae in Ezecheliem (Homilies on Ezekiel), in two books, written by Pope Gregory I (b. c 540, d. 604), followed by an excerpt from the Creed of the 11th Council of Toledo (675) (ff. 168v-169v). It has been copied in the last quarter of the 11th century. The par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

640. Burney MS 318

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 318
Title:
Gregory the Great, Dialogues
Scope & Content:
f. 1: Notes in French by Theodore D'Auvergne. f. 2: Notes in French by Jean D'Auvergne. ff. 3-109v: Gregorius Magnus Libri Dialogorum. Books I-IV. ff. 3-24: Book I. Inc. Quadam die nimis quorumdam secularium. Expl. ...si aliud exordium sumamus. Explicit liber primus ff. 24-45: Book 2 Inc. I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
Parchment codex.

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