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Burney MS 31
- Record Id:
- 040-002236367
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000056
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 31
- Title:
- Pauline Epistles with prologues
- Scope & Content:
-
Pauline Epistles with prologues.
Decoration:
Large and small initials decorated in red or unfinished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236367 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 31 : Pauline Epistles with prologues - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0031]/040-002236367
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 165 x 120 mm (ruling variable).
Foliation: ff. vii + 82 (ff. i-vii and 76-82 are flyleaves; Burney's list of contents is stuck to f. 81).
Collation: i8-1 (6th leaf cancelled; ff. 1-7), ii-vi8 (ff. 8-47), vii10 (ff. 48-57), viii12 (ff. 58-69), ix8-2 (5th leaf cancelled, 8th leaf missing; ff. 70-75).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Unidentified English owner, 14th century, with his added title 'Ep(isto)le pauli cu(m) q(ua)da(m) co(n)fessio(n)e gallic(e) in fine' (f. 1r, upper margin); the confession is now missing.
Unidentified owner, 15th century: a missing initial has been inserted (f. 65v).
Charles Burney (b. 1757 d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.
Purchased for the British Museum 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=1479&CollID=18&NStart=31].
- 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)