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Burney MS 13
- Record Id:
- 040-002236318
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000044
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 13
- Title:
- Glossed Exodus
- Scope & Content:
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Glossed Exodus.
Decoration:
1 large initial excised and replaced by an initial in gold, followed by display capitals in gold on a blue ground (f. 1r). Small initials in blue with red penwork, or vice versa. Chapter numbers in red in the outer and upper margins.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236318 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 13 : Glossed Exodus - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0013]/040-002236318
- 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:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 1st 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: 305 x 220 mm (text space 210 x 145 mm in up to three columns).
Foliation: ff. ii + 104 (ff. i-ii and 102-104 are flyleaves; ff. i and 104 are paper).
Collation: i-xii8 (ff. 1-96), xiii6-1(?) (ff. 97-101).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Tree-calf binding with marbled endpapers and flyleaves ruled in red ink, all typical of the Bibliotheca Swaniana; c.1792.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Edmund Castell (bap. 1606, d. 1686), orientalist and lexicographer: his signature, followed by a note in Arabic (f. 101r); not found in the catalogue of his sale, Cambridge, 30 June 1686.
Inscription: 'David Swan. 1792' (f. 101r, partly erased), the otherwise unidentified owner of the Bibliotheca Swaniana (cf. Burney MS 216, Additional MS 15334, etc.), with his binding and ink pagination.
Unidentified owner/bookseller: inscribed 'Liber Exodus cum Annotationibus et variis lectionibus SS. Patrum' and '£6. 6. 0' in pencil (f. ii verso); 'z' in pencil (ff. i verso and ii verso).
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=1379&CollID=18&NStart=13].
- 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:
- Castell, Edmund, DD, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge
Swan, David, fl 1792