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161. Burney MS 159

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 159
Title:
Cicero, Orationes
Scope & Content:
Cicero, Orationes. Includes: Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia (ff. 1r-14r); Pro Plancio (ff. 14r-35r); Pro Milone (ff. 35r-54v); Pro Archia Poeta (ff. 54v-60v); Pro Cluentio (imperfect) (ff. 60v-95v); Pro Quinctio (ff. 95v-111v); Pro Flacco (ff. 111v-129v); Pro Reditum in Senatu (ff. 129v-137r); Pseudo-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

162. Burney MS 294

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 294
Title:
Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:
A typical latemedieval miscellany of theological texts for the low clergy. Contents: ff. 1r-39r: Honoriusof Autun, Dialogus de cognitione verae vitae.(printed in PL 40, 1005-32) ff. 39r-48r: Williamof St. Thierry, Epistola ad fratres de MonteDei chapters 95-119 (‘Tractatus beati Augustini de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
One volume.

163. Burney MS 233

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 233
Title:
Selected Excerpts from Priscian
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-119v: Priscian, Excerpts from his Institutiones grammaticae, (Books XVII and XVIII: De constructione) In the first section (ff. 4-67v) with sporadic, but sometimes extensive original and added marginal and interlinear glosses. f. 119v: 'Tres digiti scribunt cetera membra dolen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
One volume

164. Burney MS 302

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 302
Title:
Sermons for the Great Lent by Bertrand de la Tour
Scope & Content:
Lenten sermons (sermones quadragesimales de epistolis) of Bertrand de la Tour (Betrandus de Turre OFM) ff. 1-1v: A note by the Chevalier d'Eon regarding the content of the manuscript with false identification of Bertrand de la Tour with a 6th-century bishop and dating the manuscript to 711AD. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 14th or 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

165. Burney MS 312

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 312
Title:
Walter of Chatillon, Alexandreis with commentaries.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript isone of the many copies of the 12th-century Latin epic by Walter ofChatillon (d. 1180) retelling the history of Alexander the Great. It was a verypopular school text for education. This copypreserves a school commentary explaining both the form and the content of the poem includ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
One volume.

166. 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.

167. Burney MS 299

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 299
Title:
Ascetical works by and attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-28: Pseudo Bernard (= John of Fruttuaria): De ordine morum vitae et morum institutione. Tit. Insipit tractatus sancti Bernardi de ordine vitae et morum insititutione. Inc. Hortatur quidem timidam mentis meae imperitiam. Expl. supplexque tu ora hoc modo. (PL 184, 561-584. Cf. also Wilmart (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

168. Burney MS 297

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 297
Title:
Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-130: Beda Venerabilis, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. (Inc. Gloriosissimo regi Ceolulpho Beda famulus Christi et presbyter.... Expl. ....sive etiam ad formam sensus et interpretations eorum superadicere curavi) breaks off without the register of Bede's works. ff. 130-131: Cuthber...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

169. Burney MS 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 2
Title:
Bible with prologues, and Interpretations of Hebrew names
Scope & Content:
Bible with prologues (ff. 2r-523r), and Interpretations of Hebrew names (ff. 524r-570v). Decoration: 79 large historiated initials (one more missing), in colours and gold, at the beginnings of biblical books. Large foliate initials, in colours and gold, at the beginnings of prologues, etc. Sma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

170. Burney MS 239

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 239
Title:
Cornelius Nepos, Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51r: Cornelius Nepos (b. c. 110 BC, d. c. 25 BC), Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium (Lives of Eminent Commanders), including the lives from Miltiades to Hannibal, beginning: 'Non dubito fore plerosque'. f. 51r: Æmilius Probus (fl. c. 379-395), verse dedication o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1435-c 1450
Extent:
A parchment codex