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211. Burney MS 68

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 68
Title:
Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum secretorum
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum secretorum. Decoration: Initials alternately red or blue. Decorative catchwords include fish, heraldic arms (f. 9v), and humans.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

212. Burney MS 86

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 86
Title:
Townley Homer
Scope & Content:
Iliad of Homer, with extensive marginal and interlinear scholia (ff 1r-281v). Later added inscriptions and ownership marks, including: Engraved portrait of Charles Townley, 1812 (f iv recto). Partly erased 15th-century Italian accounts in Latin (f v recto). Engraving of a bust of Homer found...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
?1059
Extent:

281 folios

213. Burney MS 255

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 255
Title:
Humanistic miscellany.
Scope & Content:
A humanistic collectionof texts relating to Roman history. Contents: ff. 1r-11r: RufiusFestus, Breviarium rerum gestarum populiRomani, begins ‘Ruffi Sexti viriconsularis rerum gestarum populi Romani, Valentiniano Augusto, liber incipitfeliciter.: Pio perpetui domino Velntiniano imperatori et s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
One volume.

214. Burney MS 56

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 56
Title:
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
Scope & Content:
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, with a few later annotations. Imperfect, expl. τὴν δέησιν ἡμῶν· ποίησον ἡμᾶς.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

24 folios

215. Burney MS 111

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 111
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia (TLG 0363.009)
Scope & Content:
Ptolemy, Geographia (TLG 0363.009), ff 3r-114r. Many diagrams and coloured maps. Preceded on f 2v by four epigrams on the Geography by Maximus Planudes, and followed on f 114r by heroic verses on the poem, inc. Ἐν γραμμαῖς τὸν κόσμον ἀριθμηθέντα νόησον.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

114 folios

216. Burney MS 187

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 187
Title:
Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:
Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi (ff. 2r-168r). Decoration: 2 large initials, in an unusual variant of the white vine style (ff. 2r, 2v). Smaller, but broadly similar, initials at the start of the remaining books, in unusual colours and on unusually shaped grounds. Spaces left for he...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

217. Burney MS 189

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 189
Title:
Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-96v: Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi Decoration: Decorated with a parted initial in red and blue with red and pink penwork (f. 1r), other initials alternately red or blue, each with pink penwork. Spaces left for headings.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Paper and parchment codex

218. Burney MS 401

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 401
Title:
Indices to words in Nicander's Theriaca, Alexipharmaca, and Euripides' Hippolytus, with notes on the former two by Thomas Morell, D.D.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r-32r: Index to words in Nicander's Theriaca and Alexipharmaca. Copied from a manuscript then in the library of Anthony Askew, M.D., and later lot 355 in his sale, Leigh and Sotheby's, London, 7 March 1785. ff. 33r-44r: Index to words in Euripides' Hippolytus, as in Musgrave's Oxford editi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 18th century-3rd quarter of the 18th century
Extent:

51 folios.

219. Burney MS 137

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 137
Title:
Cicero, De Amicitia, De Officiis, Paradoxa Stoicorum, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Cicero, De Amicitia (ff. 1r-12v); De Officiis, with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses (ff. 14r-52v); Paradoxa Stoicorum, with marginal and interlinear glosses, f. 55v blank except for ‘ibi n(ullus) e(st) defect(us)’ (ff. 53r-58v); six six-line epitaphs of Cicero, inc. Hic iacet Aprinas ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1473
Extent:
Paper codex

220. Burney MS 82

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 82
Title:
Hesiod, Works and Days (TLG 0020.002)
Scope & Content:
Hesiod, Works and Days (TLG 0020.002), with a few marginal variants and several lines erased.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

28 folios

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