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121. 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

122. Burney MS 77

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 77
Title:
Latin translation of Hephaestion, Enchiridion, by Vincente Mariner Valentine, with descriptions, a preface, and a translated Latin epigram
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r-7v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Preface addressed to Francisco de Rioja, librarian and poet. Latin. ff. 8r-8v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Epigram addressed to Francisco de Rioja, with a Latin translation. ff. 9r-136v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Latin translation of Hephaestian's Enchi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1639
Extent:

140 folios.

123. Burney MS 349

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 349
Title:
Lives of Saints
Scope & Content:
Lives of Saints ff. 2-39: Life of St William of Maleval by Theobald (BHL 8293) ff. 39v-76v: Life of St Elisabeth of Hungary in 8 Books by Theoderic (BHL 2496) ff. 76v-126v: Life of St Thomas Aquinas by William of Tocco (BHL 8152-53)Decoration: Red, blue and green initials, titles in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

124. Burney MS 217

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 217
Title:
Select works of Ovid and Sallust
Scope & Content:
Selected works from Ovid and Sallust in a humanist volume. Contents: ff. 2r-45r: Ovid, Ars amatoria. (‘Incipit liber Ovidii de arte amandi’) ending ‘Finito libro referatur gratia Christo. Scrittor suus talis demonstrat litera qualis.’ ff. 46r-91r: Ovid, Amores. ('Incipit liber Ovidii de sine...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
One volume

125. Burney MS 218

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 218
Title:
Humanistic anthology of classical Roman poetry
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-55r: Ovid, Ars amatoria. ff. 55v-74r: Ovid, Remedia amoris. ff. 74v-121v. Tibullus, Elegiae. ending ‘Quid miserum torques rumor acerbe tace. Τελωσ’. f. 121v: Domitus Marsus. Epitaphium Albii Tibulli. With various notes. f. 122r: Life of Tibull. (‘Summa vite et rerum Tibulli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

One volume

126. Burney MS 67

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 67
Title:
Synopses of works by Aristotle, Ps.-Aristotle, and Porphyry, with extracts from Pindar
Scope & Content:
Synopses of works by Aristotle and Ps.-Aristotle, with extracts from Pindar, arranged as follows: ff. 2r-41v: Synopsis of Aristotle's Naturalis auscultatio. Partly Latin, at ff. 36r-41v. ff. 42r-65v: Synopsis of Aristotle's Meteorologica. Partly Latin, at ff. 64r-65v. ff. 66r-149v: Synopsis o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

401 folios.

127. Burney MS 118-119

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 118-119
Title:
Orion of Thebes, Etymologicon, transcript with notes by Jean-François Boissonade, containing indices, correspondence, and additional extracts
Scope & Content:
MS 118: ff. 1r-2r: Letter to Charles Burney from Jean-François Boissonade, in Latin, 1801. ff. 3r-4r: Letter to Charles Burney from James Payne, [?1801]. ff. 6r-7r: Index of authors. ff. 8r-77r: Orion of Thebes, Etymologicon Α - Ξ, transcribed from Paris, Bibliothèque National, MS grec 2653....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1801
Extent:

77 folios (MS 118), 84 folios (MS 119)

128. 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.

129. Burney MS 237

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 237
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, (books 17-18); Pseudo-Priscian, De accentibus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two texts about Latin grammar: the two last books of the Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar) of Priscian (fl. c. 500), often called the Priscianus minor (Lesser Priscian), as in the added title on f. 2v; and De accentibus (On Accents) by Pseudo-Priscian (fl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

130. Burney MS 341

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 341
Title:
Julian of Toledo and Glossa Ordinaria on Matthew
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-16v: Julian of Toledo, Fragment from Prognosticon Futuri Saeculi (=Hilgarth (1976), pp,. 11-97)ff. 17r-24v Extract from the Glossa Ordinaria on the Gospel of Matthew (Mt 3.2-6.24, cf. the oline edition https://gloss-e.irht.cnrs.fr/php/editions.php?livre=../sources/editions/GLOSS-liber55.xm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Undetermined
Date Range:
Middle of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.