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641. Burney MS 319

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 319
Title:
Gregory the Great, Dialogues
Scope & Content:
A complete 14th-century copy of Gregory’s Dialogues. Contents: ff. 1r-108r: Gregorythe Great: Dialogues on the Lives of theItalian Fathers Books 1-4. Preceded by a list of chapters. Decoration 4 large historiatedinitials in colours and gold, with foliate marginal extensions, at thebeginnin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
One volume

642. Burney MS 320

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 320
Title:
Gregory the Great, Dialogues
Scope & Content:
A complete 14th-century copy of Gregory’s Dialogues. Contents: ff. 2r-128r: Gregorythe Great, Dialogues Books 1-4 ff. 128r-132v: List ofchapters Decoration A full flourished borderand decorated flourished initial at the beginning of the text (f. 2r), withsmaller flourished initials through...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
One volume

643. Burney MS 321

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 321
Title:
Anonymous treatise on virtues and vices.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-79: "Liber quid de vitiis et virtutibus sentiendum." Prol. "Talem lectorem praesens flagitat opusculum." Inc. "Frustra conatur rei naturalis vel essenciam vel ordinem in malo invenire" Expl. " Quaerit derisor sapientiam et non invenit, doctrina autem prudentium facilis." ff. 79-81v: "Libe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

644. Burney MS 322

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 322
Title:
Select Epistles of St Jerome with his translation of Origen's homilies on Canticles.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-2v: Epistles of St Jerome (Epistles 35; 36). ff. 2v-2: Origen: Two Homilies on Canticles in the Latin translation of Jerome with his prologue to Pope Damasus (PG 13, 37-58; CPG 1432). ff. 7-77 Epistles of St Jerome (Epistles 62; 20; 15; 16; 18b; 18a; 21; 101; 102; 103;111; 110; 56; 105; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 14th century - first quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex.

645. Burney MS 323

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 323
Title:
John Balbi, Catholicon
Scope & Content:
The Catholicon,written by the Dominican Johannes Balbus (d. 1298) of Genoa, is a long treatisefor the study of Latin, divided into five parts: orthography, prosody, grammar,rhetoric, and etymology. This copy was owned by the Augustinian priory at Stonein Staffordshire (half-way between Stoke-on-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between c. 1390 and 1417
Extent:
One volume

646. Burney MS 324

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 324
Title:
John of Damascus, Expositionof the Orthodox Faith
Scope & Content:
A 13th-century English copy of John of Damascus’s seminal work Exposition of the Orthodox Faith translated into Latin by Burgundino da Pisa. ff. 1-33v: John of Damascus, De fide orthodoxa (in Latin by Burgundino da Pisa), begins ‘Quoniam incomprehensibilis est Deus, Deum nemo vidit unquam, nisi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

One volume.

647. Burney MS 325

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 325
Title:
Josephus Flavius, JewishWar in Latin
Scope & Content:
A 13th-century Englishcopy of the Latin translation of Josephus Flavius’s Jewish War. Josephus’s works on the history of the Jews wereconsidered as important aids for interpreting the Bible and survives in medieval copies. Contents: ff. 1-2: blank f. 3r: ‘Istum librum emit frater Johannes L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
One volume.

648. Burney MS 326

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 326
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Etymologiae (Etymologies), also known as Origenes (Origins), by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636). This is an encyclopedic work that discusses the origin of words related to the liberal arts and a vast range of other subjects. The manuscript appears to have been...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

649. Burney MS 328

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 328
Title:
The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-190 Isidore of Seville: Etymologies Books 1-20. with prefatory material. ff. 2-4: Dedicatory Epistles of Isidore and Bravilo (Epistles 1-5 as published by Lindsay (1911))ff. 4-190: Etymologies Book 1-20. ff. 4-18v: Book 1 ff. 18v-29: Book 2 ff. 29-38: Book 3 ff. 38-42v: Book 4 ff 42v-51v:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

650. Burney MS 329

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 329
Title:
Historical miscellany
Scope & Content:
An elegant humanistcopy of a collection of historical works dealing with Roman history. Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Anonymouspoem about Orosius and Justin, begins ‘Orbis terrarum metasque situsque locorumcomputat hic sancti codex luculenter Orosii....’ ends ‘...Emula namque manus sic rodere desineti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume

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