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131. Burney MS 411

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 411
Title:
Charles Burney, Notes on the Works of Anacreon
Scope & Content:
Charles Burney's extracts from the 1784 edition of the surviving works of the ancient Greek lyrical poet Anacreon (c. 575 – c. 495 BC) by Gianbattista Bodoni (b. 1740, d. 1813).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

132. 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.

133. Burney MS 136

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 136
Title:
Cicero, Selected Philosophical Works
Scope & Content:
Includes added list of twelve ‘Notabilia in Tullio De Amicitia’ (f. 1v), Cicero, De Amicitia, with marginal and interlinear glosses (for the first gloss see Olsen 1982, p. 115, no. 46a) (ff. 3r-31v), excerpts from the Paradoxa Stoicorum (see Olsen 1982, p. 116 no. 83) (ff. 32r-33v); lists of nam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

134. Burney MS 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 7
Title:
Bible with prologues
Scope & Content:
Bible with prologues. The Interpretations of Hebrew names are absent. Psalms have the 10-part divisons. Decoration: Large foliate initials in colours and gold, with a green framing line, at the beginning of the volume and Genesis (ff. 2r, 4v). Large puzzle initials in red and blue, with red a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

135. Burney MS 166

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 166
Title:
Claudian, Carmina Maiora
Scope & Content:
Claudian, Carmina Maiora; in the order: In Rufinum (ff. 1r-12v), with the preface to Book II at the end (f. 12v); De Bello Gildonico (ff. 12v-19v); In Eutropium (ff. 19v-34r); Fescennina de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti (ff. 34r-35v); Epithalamium de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti (ff. 35v-40r); Panegyricus ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

136. Burney MS 226

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 226
Title:
Humanistictexts and translations
Scope & Content:
A humanistic miscellany comprising texts and translations by 15th-century humanist scholars.Contents: ff. 2r-7v: Pseudo-Plato, Axiochus sive de morte, translated intoLatin by Rudolph Agricola, begins ‘Exeunti ad Cvnosarges mihi cum adIllissum’. This MS preserves the earliest version of Agricola'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
One volume

137. Burney MS 176

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 176
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae
Scope & Content:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 1r-172r), followed (ff. 172r-173v) without break by the preface; added anonymous alphabetical index, on paper (ff. 174r-189v). Decoration: Decorated with a faceted initial enmeshed in knotwork designs, in colours on a gold field with cusped edges (f. 2r), the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment and paper codex

138. Burney MS 252

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 252
Title:
Selected works of Seneca inLatin and Catalan.
Scope & Content:
A collection of authenticand spurious works by Seneca in Latin original and in Catalan translation. Contents: ff. 1-4v: Correspondence of Seneca and St Paul theApostle: Epistles 1-14. ff. 4v-8v: Correspondence of Seneca and St Paul theApostle: Epistles 1-14 in Catalan. f. 9: Jerome, On Senec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Catalan and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume.

139. Burney MS 283

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 283
Title:
St Ambrose of Milan, De officiis ministrorum
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-26v: St Ambrose of Milan, De officiis ministrorum Books 1-3. Inc. "Non arrogans videri arbitror" Expl. "plurimum instructionis conferat". (CPL 144)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

140. Burney MS 222

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 222
Title:
Ovid, Metamorphoses; excerpts from Tristia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-222r: Ovid, Metamorphoses. f. 222v: Ovid, Tristia, 1.7.35-40, beginning ‘Orba parente suo quicumque volumina cernis.’ f. 222v: ‘Finito libro referamus gratia xpo | facto fine pia laudetur virgo maria’, ‘Bis sex milenos versus in codice scriptos | Sed ter quinque minus conti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
One volume