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101. Burney MS 151

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 151
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis, imperfect.
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of Cicero's De Officiis left incomplete by the first scribe and continued by another scribe who left it unfinished, too. Contents: ff. 1r-38v. Cciero, De officiis. Left incomplete by the first scribe at 2.38 (‘esse potest’; last line of f. 35r), and continued by another scribe ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume

102. Burney MS 256

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 256
Title:
Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium.
Scope & Content:
A 12th-centurycopy of Solius’s famous work on miracles of the world. Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Caius JuliusSolinus, Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium (A Collection of Miraculous Things),with preface and prologue. (as printed in Mommsen (1895), pp. 1-216.) f. 57v: Anonymous Poem: 'Quem studiitaedet stu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
One volume.

103. Burney MS 271

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 271
Title:
Virgil, Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid
Scope & Content:
Virgil, Eclogues (ff. 1r-16r), Georgics (ff. 16v-56r), Aeneid (ff. 57r-236r). Some leaves are apparently re-used from a larger book ruled in two columns (see ff. 1r, 60r, 63r, etc.); some palimpsest (e.g. ff. 5r, 64r, 70r, 97r, etc.), the lower text possibly in Greek (e.g. ff. 98v, 178v). In u...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

104. Burney MS 261

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 261
Title:
Terence, Comedies, preceded by prologues and arguments: Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphoe, Hecyra, Phormio
Scope & Content:
Terence, Comedies, preceded by prologues and arguments: Andria (ff. 1v-21v), Eunuchus (ff. 22r-45v), Heautontimorumenos (ff. 46r-68v), Adelphoe (ff. 68v-89r), Hecyra (ff. 89r-108r), Phormio (ff. 108r-130r). Decoration: 1 large initial (excised) (f. 1r), with a three-sided border incorporating ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

105. Burney MS 266

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 266
Title:
Terence, Comedies, preceded by arguments and prologues: Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphoe, Hecyra, Phormio
Scope & Content:
Terence, Comedies, preceded by arguments and prologues: Andria (ff. 1r-18v), Eunuchus (ff. 18v-56v), Heautontimorumenos (ff. 57r-94v), Adelphoe (ff. 94v-122v), Hecyra (ff. 122v-150r), Phormio (ff. 150r-181v). Decoration: Large initials in black ink (one in red, f. 75r), sometimes in the form o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

106. Burney MS 409b-521

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 409b-521
Title:
Charles Burney, D.D., Notes on Greek literature and language
Scope & Content:
Charles Burney, D.D., Notes on Greek literature and language. 112 vols.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century-1st quarter of the 19th century
Extent:

112 volumes

107. Burney MS 131

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 131
Title:
Nicholas Trevet, Commentary on Boethius' De consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-79v. Nicholas Trevet: Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae. f. 1r Inc. 'Explicationem librorum Boetii de consolacione philosophica...' f. 79v. Expl.: 'Amen. Et sic terminatur liber quintus continens prosas sex et metra quinque. Et sunt universaliter in libro toto prose ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

108. 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

109. Burney MS 361

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 361
Title:
Thomas of Chabham's Summa Confessorum with Exempla
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-2v: List of chapters in Thomas Chabham, Summa Confessorumff. 3-146v: Thomas Chabham, Summa Confessorumff. 146v-148v: 21 Exempla based on the Collection of Odo of Cheriton (b. 1185, d. 1247). f. 146v: Barrel filled with a single tear f. 146vb: Truce with God, made at St. Bernard's instance...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

110. Burney MS 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 4
Title:
Bible; the Interpretations of Hebrew names, synoptic table of biblical parallels
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two parts: the original part contains the Old and New Testament of the Latin Vulgate (ff. 1-249, 273-656). The younger part (ff. 250-277*, ff. 657-667) seems to have been added in the second half of the 14th century to replace lost or damaged parts of the Old Testamen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex