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111. Burney MS 155

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 155
Title:
Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta; Pro Milone; Philippics
Scope & Content:
Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta (ff. 1r-6r); Pro Milone (ff. 6r-21v); Philippics (ff. 22r-100r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

112. Burney MS 168

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

113. Burney MS 228

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 228
Title:
Plautus, Comedies; with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of the collected comedies of Plautus. Contents: ff. 1r-19v: Amphitruo, preceded (f. 1) by two arguments. ff. 20r-35v: Asinaria, preceded (f. 20) by a prologue and an acrostic argument. ff. 36r-50r: Aulularia, preceded (f. 36) by two arguments, the second an acrostic. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
One volume

114. Burney MS 300

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 300
Title:
Sermons of St Bernard of Clairvaux
Scope & Content:
Second volume of a two-part collection of Sermons by St Bernard of Clairvaux, containing sermons from Easter to Pentecost and various feasts. ff. 1-5v: Sermo 1 de resurrectione. (PL 183, 273-274) ff. 5v-8: Sermo 2 de resurrectione (PL 183, 283-288) ff. 8-10: Sermo 3 de resurrectione (PL 183, 288...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1500
Extent:
Parchment codex.

115. Burney MS 301

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 301
Title:
Sermons of St Bernard of Clairvaux
Scope & Content:
First volume of a two-part collection of Sermons by St Bernard of Clairvaux with sermons from the Advent to Annunciation with various feasts. ff. 1-12: Sermo 1-7 in adventu Domini (PL 183, 35-55) ff. 12-38v: Sermo 1-11 in Nativitate Domini (PL 183, 87-132) ff. 38v-44v: Sermo 1-3 in Circumcis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1500
Extent:
Parchment codex.

116. 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

117. Burney MS 129

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 129
Title:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, with Italian interlinear glosses. Decoration: 5 large puzzle initials in red and blue, with red and blue, or brown, penwork (ff. 1r, 8v, 19r, 34v, 48r), the first partly filled-in with a thin shell gold wash. Small initials in red or blue, sometimes wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

118. Burney MS 268

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 268
Title:
Poems of Tibullus, Lygdamus and Sulpicia (Corpus Tibullianum)
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-53v: Corpus Tibullianum containing the elegies of Tibull in 2 books (ff. 1-34v) and parts of the Appendix Tibulliana (ff. 34v-53 book 3 and f. 53v Priapic Poem 1). ff. 54-55: An Italian Sonetto Caudato containing a dialogue between body and soul (Inc. 'Spirto mio car: che speculando miri'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Paper codex.

119. Burney MS 41

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 41
Title:
Gospels, with prologues, mass readings, capitula lists, and canon tables
Scope & Content:
Gospels, with prologues (ff. 2r-6v, 58r-v, 79v-80r, 115v-116r), mass readings (ff. 6v-17v), capitula lists (ff. 17v-19r, 58v-59v, 80r-81v, 116r-117r), and canon tables (ff. 19v-23v, incomplete). Decoration: 1 full-page miniature (unfinished drawing) (f. 26***v). Full-page canon tables, some pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1074-c 1125
Extent:
Parchment codex

120. Burney MS 196

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 196
Title:
Juvenal, Satires
Scope & Content:
Juvenal, Satires (ff. 1r-92v); the order of the last two reversed; with extensive marginal and interlinear gloss as far as f. 14v.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Paper codex