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Burney MS 12
- Record Id:
- 040-002236317
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000043
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 12
- Title:
- Old Testament with prologues, in two volumes
- Scope & Content:
-
Old Testament with prologues, Vol. I: Genesis-Nehemiah (ff. 1r-176v), Old Testament with prologues, Vol. II: Tobit-II Maccabees, omitting Psalms (ff. 1r-145v).
Chapters start on new lines; chapter numbers are inset into the text area.
Decoration:
Large puzzle initials in red and blue with flourishing in red and blue. Small initials alternately red or blue with flourishing in the other colour. Running titles and chapter numbers in alternate red and blue characters, with flourishing.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236317 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 12 : Old Testament with prologues, in two volumes - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0012]/040-002236317
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- last quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 145 x 105 mm (text space 105 x 73 mm).
Foliation: Vol. I: ff. iii + 179 (ff. i-iii, 177-179 are flyleaves), Vol. II: ff. ii + 148 (ff. i-ii, 146-148 are flyleaves).
Script: Gothic, with a change of scribe from the beginning of quire x (f. 145).
Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of diced brown leather; gilt edges; c.1800.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Unidentified contemporary readers: with numerous marginal annotations, often in red ink, especially in vol. II.
Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: perhaps his sale 6 April 1807, lot 1102, bought by Burney for £1 13s.
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=1398&CollID=18&NStart=12].
- 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. 2.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Sebright, John Saunders, 7th Baronet, politician and agriculturalist, 1767-1846