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Burney MS 28
- Record Id:
- 040-002236364
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000053
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100063300794.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 28
- Title:
- Glossed Gospel of Mark
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of Mark with interlinear and marginal Gloss. The manuscript’s provenance suggests that it was most likely produced in England.
Contents:
ff. 1r-111r: The Gospel of Mark with marginal and interlinear gloss.
[f. 111v is an empty leaf].
Decoration:
3 large initials in blue, red, or blue and red (puzzle initial) with arabesque penwork decoration in red and blue (ff. 1r, 2r, 89v). Display script in red and blue. Paraph marks in brown ink, sometimes with minor foliate decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236364 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 28 : Glossed Gospel of Mark - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0028]/040-002236364
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100063300794.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 225 mm (text space: 190 x 60 mm, in 1 column [f. 1r]; 250 x 175 mm, in 3 columns).
Foliation: ff. iv + 114 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning); ff. i-iv and ff. 112-114 are modern paper leaves; a paper pastedown on f. 114 (note on foliation); 1 parchment stub between f. 1 and f. 2. Dried plant materials are in the gutter between f. 98 and f. 99.
Collation: i8-1 (2nd leaf excised; ff. 1-7), ii-xvi8 (ff. 8-111).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Red leather binding with red velvet; Burney’s bookplate blind-stamped on the upper and lower covers, the spine inscribed in gold: ‘EVANGELIUM SECUNDUM S. MARCUM. CUM GLOSSIS’; gilt foredge; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
?Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire, owned in the ?13th century: Perhaps its ownership inscription in the upper margin of f. 1r: 'Liber ewang[e]l[ium] [secundum] mar[cum] glosat[um] [e]ccl[es]ie [? lich.]'; a glossed Mark was recorded at Lichfield by Patrick Young in c.1622.
'John Stout', owned in the ?16th century: his name inscribed in the lower margin of f. 9r.
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D. D., classical scholar: his bookplate blind-stamped on the upper and lower covers. Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney's library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.
- Information About Copies:
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- 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. 6.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.