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Burney MS 6
- Record Id:
- 040-002236311
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00003d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 6
- Title:
- Bible with prologues, and the Interpretations of Hebrew names
- Scope & Content:
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Bible with prologues (ff. 2r-358v), and the Interpretations of Hebrew names (ff. 359r-377v).
The first prologue is not divided into chapters; chapters of biblical books start on new lines, but the chapter numbers are placed in the margins, suggesting a date in second quarter of the 13th century.
Psalms have a running title 'Psalterium'; Psalms 51 and 101 are not emphasised; Psalm 151 follows Psalm 150.
Includes 'Esdras I' to 'Esdras VI'.
Decoration:
Large puzzle initials in red and blue, with pen and green and brown wash foliate infill, sometimes with red and blue marginal extensions forming full or partial borders, at the beginning of biblical books, prologues, major psalter divisions, etc. Small initials alternately blue or red, flourished in the other colour. Chapter numbers and running titles in alternate red and blue characters.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236311 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 6 : Bible with prologues, and the Interpretations of Hebrew names - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0006]/040-002236311
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1225
- End Date:
- 1249
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 205 x 145 mm (text space 150 x 80 mm in two columns).
Foliation: ff. iii + 381 (ff. i-iii and 379-381are flyleaves).
Collation: Bound too tightly to allow accurate collation.
Script: Gothic, written 'below top line'.
Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of diced brown calf; the joints repaired. The edges of the leaves painted, 15th century?
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Unidentified English readers: annotated in ink, 14th century (e.g. f. 355r), and ink, 15th century (e.g. f. 334r), and leadpoint (passim).
Unidentified owner, 15th century: inscribed with the Advent antiphon 'O sapientia, que ex ore altissimi …' and a prayer(?).
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=1665&CollID=18&NStart=6].
- 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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)