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311. Burney MS 190

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 190
Title:
Juvenal, Persius, Satires
Scope & Content:
Juvenal, Satires (ff. 2r-79r); Persius, Satires (ff. 79r-92v). Decoration: Decorated with a full border on a gold ground, incorporating putti, a unicorn, and an escutcheon; two four-line initials in gold on a coloured ground (ff. 2r, 79r); two-line initials in plain blue or absent. Decoration...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

312. Burney MS 161

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 161
Title:
Cicero, De Inventione; Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Cicero, De Inventione (ff. 3r-53v); Rhetorica ad Herennium (ff. 53v-98r). Preceded by a letter signed ‘J Davies’, and dated ‘Q[ueen’s]. C[ollege]. C[ambridge]. March 11th / 1722’ thanking Dr [Richard] Mead for the loan of a manuscript of De Natura Deorum and De Divinatione (f. 1r). Decoration: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

313. Burney MS 145

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 145
Title:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, beginning imperfect at 3.11.1 ([vu]lgi sermo), ending imperfect at 15.10.2 (hornatissimum [sic]); imperfect elsewhere (ff. 1r-116v). Decoration: Decorated in a style typical of Florence c. 1440, with four- to seven-line gold initials with white vine-stem decora...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
before 1464
Extent:
Parchment codex

314. Burney MS 40

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 40
Title:
Origen, translated by Rufinus, 16 homilies on Genesis, 13 homilies on Exodus
Scope & Content:
Origen, translated by Rufinus, 16 homilies on Genesis (ff. 1v-51r); 13 homilies on Exodus (ff. 51r-90v). Decoration: Spaces for initials left blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

315. Burney MS 144

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 144
Title:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Includes added anonymous wedding speech, 15th century, inc. Nuptias pretores magni et cives peregrigii et vos ceteri dominique qui in hoc cœtu ornatissimo (ff. 1r-2r); Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Oration to the Doge of Venice, added after 1455, inc. Cum ab illustrissimis parentibus meis iussus fuerim...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

316. Burney MS 214

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 214
Title:
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII
Scope & Content:
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII (ff. 4r-90r); preceded (ff. 1r-2r) by two inserted paper leaves with 18th-century notes on Paulus Orosius, perhaps in the hand of Anthony Askew, in English, and by a chapter list, in Latin (ff. 4r-10v); followed by an excerpt from Book 5 cha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1434
Extent:
Parchment codex

317. Burney MS 149

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 149
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis; an added quotation from Varro, De Lingua Latina
Scope & Content:
Cicero, De Officiis (ff. 2r-92r); followed by an added quotation from Varro, De Lingua Latina, 9.47 (f. 93v). Occasionally annotated in humanistic script by contemporary readers. Decoration: Decorated with fine seven- or eight-line gold initials with white vine-stem decoration on a ground of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

318. Burney MS 48

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 48
Title:
Commentaries of St John Chrysostom on the Pauline letters, followed by the Catholic Epistles (Gregory-Aland 643; Scrivener act 225; von Soden α 1402, X40)
Scope & Content:
Commentaries of St John Chrysostom on the Pauline letters, followed by the Catholic Epistles (Gregory-Aland 643; Scrivener act 225; von Soden α 1402, X40). In two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:

2 paper codices

319. Burney MS 175

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 175
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae
Scope & Content:
List of chapters (ff. 1r-2v); Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 3r-200v), followed without break (ff. 201r-202v) by the preface. Decoration: Attributed by de la Mare perhaps to Cristoforo de Predis. Decorated with 1 large initial 'P'(lutarchus) with foliate decoration in the style of 'white v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1465
Extent:
Parchment codex.

320. Burney MS 170

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 170
Title:
Dictys of Crete, Ephemeris Belli Troiani
Scope & Content:
Dictys of Crete, Ephemeris Belli Troiani (ff. 2v-72r); preceded (f. 2r) by the letter from Lucius Septimius, but without the prologue printed in Eisenhut’s Teubner edition. All but the last two words of f. 43r repeat the text on the facing page, and the former was therefore marked ‘vacat’. Spa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Parchment text

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