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551. Burney MS 242

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 242
Title:
Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; Filippo Beroaldo, hendecasyllabic verse; Hieronymus Salius Faventinus, verse
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was copied from a printed edition of the Elegiae (Elegies) of Sextus Propertius (b. c. 50, d. c. 16 BC). This is clear because of the added poems by Filippo Beroaldo the Elder (b. 1453, d. 1505) and Hieronymus Salius Faventinus (d. 1509) at the end of the Elegiae, which also appe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1493-c 1525
Extent:
Parchment codex

552. Burney MS 243

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 243
Title:
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria; Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino of Verona
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r- 234v: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria (Institutes of Oratory). The fifth gathering (ff. 35-42) is a later insertion to complement a lost gathering, written in a late 15th- or early 16th-century humanistic cursive hand. ff. 235r-v: Table of contents of the Inst...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

553. 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

554. 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

555. 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

556. 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

557. 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

558. 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

559. 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

560. 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.

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