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Burney MS 5

Record Id:

040-002236310

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00003c

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 5

Title:

Bible with prologues

Scope & Content:

Bible with prologues.

The Old Testament ends imperfect in II Maccabees 14:33; the New Testament ends imperfect in Luke 3:31.

The general prologue is not divided into chapters; chapters do not start on new lines; Proverbs starts on a new quire (f. 115r); Psalms 51 and 101 do not have initials as elaborate as the 8 liturgical divisions.

ff. 196v-197r have a marginal English Tyndale translation.

Decoration:

Large puzzle initials in red and blue, with flourishing in the same colours. Small initials alternately blue or red, with flourishing in the other colour. One-line initials alternately blue or red (only in red in quires xii-xv; ff. 115-158).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236310

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 5 : Bible with prologues

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0005]/040-002236310

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1249

Date Range:

1st half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 255 x 180 mm (text space 90 x 125 mm).

Foliation: ff. ii + 209 (ff. i-ii and 207-209 are flyleaves)

Collation: i² (ff. 1-2), ii-ix¹⁴ (ff. 3-98), x¹⁰ (ff. 99-108), xi⁶ (ff. 109-114), xii-xiv¹² (ff. 115-150), xv⁸ (ff. 151-158), xvi¹⁴ (ff. 159-172), xvii¹² (ff. 173-184), xviii¹⁰ (ff. 185-194), xix¹² (ff. 195-206).

Script: Gothic, written 'above top line'.

Binding: BM/BL in-house. 19th century (after 1817).

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Reginald, priest of Bury St Edmunds, 14th century.

The Franciscan convent of Babwell, Bury St Edmunds, 14th century: 'Iste liber est de co(mmun)itate fr(atr)um minor(um) S(an)c(t)i Eadmu(n)di ex dono q(uo)nd(am) Reginaldi sacerdotis / de ead(e)m villa': then in two different hands, over two layers of erasures, all later struck out: 'Cuius usus debetur fr(atr)i Walt(er)o de Bukenh(a)m ad vitam' (f. 1r; see Ker 1964, pp. 5, 228).

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.

Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.

Administrative Context:

England.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1355&CollID=18&NStart=5].

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 1.

N. R. Ker, ed., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 5, 228.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Babwell Priory al Grey Friars at Bury St Edmunds
Reginald, priest of Bury St Edmunds, 14th century