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Burney MS 29
- Record Id:
- 040-002236365
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000054
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056013127.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 29
- Title:
- Gospel of Luke with Glossa Ordinaria;St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-110r: Evangelium Secundum Lucam (The Gospel of St Luke), with the Glossa Ordinaria (Ordinary Gloss) in the margins, beginning of the Gospel: 'Quoniam quidem multi conati sunt'; beginning of the Ordinary Gloss: 'Vitulus sacerdotalis est hostia', including an interlinear gloss.
ff. 110r-v: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum ex Commentario in Mattheum (Prologue to the Four Gospels from St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew), beginning: 'Plures fuisse que evangelia scripserunt'.
Decoration:
One historiated initial in colours and gold, probably depicting Zacharias at Luke 1:5 (f. 1v).
One puzzle initial in red and blue, with red and blue decoration (f. 1r). Small initials alternately red, blue, or green (or red and blue, f. 70r). Chapter numbers in red. Rubrics in red. Quire signatures.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236365 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 29 : Gospel of Luke with Glossa Ordinaria;St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0029]/040-002236365
- 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_100056013127.0x000001
- 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: 310 x 190 mm (text space: 220 x 170 mm in 3 columns).
Foliation: ff. ii + 112 (ff. i-ii and 111-112 are paper flyleaves).
Collation: i (ff. 1-6), ii-xiv8 (ff. 7-110).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of lightly diced blind-tooled polished calf, including gold-tooled cartouches with 'Codex Burnelanus' (front and back covers); rebacked.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Southwestern England.
Provenance:
?Unidentified West Country house: the script is of a West Country type and the decoration has a feature found in Llanthony books, according to unpublished notes by Michael Gullick.
Added, late 12th century, annotations throughout written by a same hand (e. g., ff. 1v, 15r, 30v)
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.
- 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.