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221. Burney MS 267

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 267
Title:
Aelius Donatus, Commentaries on the Comedies of Terence.
Scope & Content:
ff.1-2: Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Vita Terentii. Inc. 'Publius Terentius Afer Karthagine natus servivit Romae' Expl. 'saepe exclusa vix acta est'. ff. 2-4: Evanthius, De fabula. Inc. 'Initium tragoediae et comoediae a rebus divinis est' Expl. 'cognitione gestorum'.ff. 4-5v: Aelius Donatus, E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
Paper codex.

222. Burney MS 253

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 253
Title:
Philosophical and theological miscellany
Scope & Content:
A collection of devotional and prophetic writings from 14th-century England. Contents ff. 1r-33r: Pope Innocence III, De miseria humanae conditionis (printed in Patrologia Latina 217, 701-746) ff. 33v-39v: Ps.-Seneca (Publilius Syrus), Proverbia, begins. 'Alienum est quod optando evenit…' end...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
One volume.

223. Burney MS 263

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 263
Title:
Terence, Comedies, preceded by arguments and prologues: Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphoe, Hecyra, Phormio
Scope & Content:
Terence, Comedies, preceded by arguments and prologues: Andria (ff. 1r-27v), Eunuchus (ff. 28r-57v), Heautontimorumenos (ff. 58r-87r), Adelphoe (f. 87r-113v), Hecyra (ff. 114r-137v), Phormio (ff. 138r-166v). Decoration: 1 large zoomorphic initial, in colours and gold, with foliate marginal ext...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

224. Burney MS 163

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 163
Title:
Rhetorica ad Herennium; Cicero, De Amicitia; Somnium Scipionis; De Senectute; Paradoxa Stoicorum
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a grammatical treatise (f. 1v); Rhetorica ad Herennium (ff. 2r-54v); Cicero, De Amicitia (ff. 55r-71r); Somnium Scipionis (ff. 72r-75v); De Senectute (ff. 76r-90v); Paradoxa Stoicorum (ff. 90v-97v). Spaces left for initials, filled-in only in the third and fourth gatherings, sporadi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

225. Burney MS 55

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 55
Title:
Manuel Malaxos, Nomocanon, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Manuel Malaxos, Nomocanon, and other texts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

237 folios

226. Burney MS 152

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 152
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of Cicero's De officiis from 1468. Contents: ff. 1r-100r: Cicero, De Officiis with spaces left for rubrics and for large initials at the start of each book (ff. 1r, 43r, 68r) which were left uncompleted. Annotated in Humanistic hands, sometimes in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1468
Extent:

One volume

227. Burney MS 193

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 193
Title:
Juvenal, Persius, Satires
Scope & Content:
Juvenal, Satires (ff. 2r-68r); Persius, Satires (ff. 69r-80v). Decoration: Large initials in colours on a gold ground (f. 2r) or in gold on a red, green, and blue ground (ff. 5r, 7v, 13v, etc.). Partial white vine borders (ff. 2r, 69r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quater of 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

228. Burney MS 150

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 150
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis; with a phrase from Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae
Scope & Content:
Cicero, De Officiis (ff. 1r-60r); followed by short excerpts from the main text (f. 60r), written by a different hand; inscribed in capitals with a phrase from Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae 1.4 (Virtus clara aeternaque habetur), and an alphabet.(f. 60v). Decoration: Decorated with a five-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

229. Burney MS 355

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 355
Title:
Ascetic works of John Cassian rephrased by Denys the Carthusian.
Scope & Content:
A 15th-centuryCarthusian rewriting of the fifth century ascetic discourses of John Cassian. Contents: ff. 1r-52r: John Cassian, Institutes of the Coenobia rephrased by Denys the Carthusian. f. 1r.Prologue of Denys Begins ‘Declaratio sermonum tuorum illuminat. Ends primoa prologo eius.’ Text ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1478-1479
Extent:
One volume.

230. Burney MS 65

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 65
Title:
Boethius, Translation of Aristotle's Topica, with glosses
Scope & Content:
Boethius, Translation of Aristotle's Topica, with glosses. The script, ruling, and decoration change at the beginning of quire iv (f. 37). Decoration: 1 large initial in colours and gold (f. 1r). 3 small puzzle initials in red and blue, flourished in red and blue, at the beginning of books (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

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