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Burney MS 32

Record Id:

040-002236368

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000057

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 32

Title:

Pauline Epistles

Scope & Content:

Pauline Epistles.

Frederic Madden, Keeper of Manuscripts (between 1837 and 1866), noted and initialled his opinion of the date: 'saec. XIV. / F.M.' (f. 1r). Added 18th-century heraldic arms (f. 2v), and a full border with heraldic devices (f. 3r)

Decoration:

Large initials in red at the beginning of each epistle (ff. 1r, 24r, 45v, 57v, 64v, etc.), sometimes with simple foliate or geometric decoration.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236368

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 32 : Pauline Epistles

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0032]/040-002236368

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:

1249

Date Range:

1st half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 200 x 140 mm (text space 155 x 105 mm).

Foliation: ff. 116 + 115* (ff. 1 and 115 are flyleaves; f. 116 is Burney's table of contents).

Collation: i⁸⁺¹ (1st leaf added; ff. 2-10), ii-x⁸ (ff. 11-82), xi⁸⁺¹ (6th leaf inserted; ff. 83-91), xii-xiv⁸ (ff. 92-115).

Script: Gothic, written 'above top line'.

Binding: Post-1600. Italian reddish-brown polished morocco; covers blind-tooled; spine gilt; 17th century(?) (cf. Burney MS 132).

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy(?).

Provenance:

Unidentified religious institution, N. or N.E. Italy, 13th century(?): an added leaf contains notes on major ecclesiastical feasts (f. 2r-v), and the margins of the main text are annotated with references to lections for feasts, indicating a possible connection to Milan or perhaps the Veneto, e.g. 'In s(an)c(t)is sisinnio ...' (relics at Milan, Ravenna, and Brescia; f. 47r), 'In s(an)c(t)o pa(n)cratio (et) in s(an)c(t)a pelaza [sic?]' (Pelagia is venerated in the Ambrosian rite; f. 48v), 'In s(an)c(t)is p(ro)taxio …' (i.e. Protasio, in Venetian orthography?; f. 65v), 'In s(an)c(t)o babila' (venerated at Milan; f. 81v), 'In vigilia s(an)c(t)i ambrosii' (f. 104v; his main feast is noted on f. 66v), 'In s(an)c(t)o mona[..]' (presumably Monas, the 3rd-century archbishop of Milan; f. 110r).

Unidentified owner, 18th century(?): 'In hoc codice /:qui saeculo XIII. Scriptus esse videtur:/ continentur S. Pauli Apostoli Epistolae omnes.' (f. 1r).

A member of the Visconti family of Milan, 18th century, perhaps Cardinal Eugenio Visconti (b. 1713, d. 1788): the family's arms: argent a serpent vert crowned, swallowing a child gules, a coronet above, the whole surmounted by a red ecclesiastic's hat (f. 2v; cf. Burney MS 132); but not in Élisabeth Pellegrin, La bibliothèque des Visconti et des Sforza ducs de Milan, au XVe siècle, Publications de l’Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, 5 (Paris: C. N. R. S., 1955).

Unidentified owner: inscribed 'EZ' in brown-red crayon (upper pastedown; cf. Additional MS 69793 with 'FZ' by the same hand).

Unidentified owner: '50 florins', in pencil, c.1800? (f. 1r).

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:

Italy(?).

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=1663&CollID=18&NStart=32].

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)

Names:

Madden, Frederic, Knight, Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, 1801-1873
Visconti, Family