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Burney MS 37

Record Id:

040-002236386

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00005c

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 37

Title:

Augustine, De verbis domini, preceded by a table of contents

Scope & Content:

Augustine, De verbis domini, preceded by (ff. 1v-2v) a table of contents.

Decoration:

1 large initial in green, blue, gold outlined in red, and silver (tarnished to metallic black), at the beginning of the sermons based on Matthew (f. 3r). 2 large initials infilled with foliage in red, or red and other colours (ff. 77v, 107v), at the beginning of the sermons based on Luke and John respectively. 3 small initials green or blue, and gold outlined in red, or silver (tarnished to metallic black) (ff. 1v, 2r, 2v). 1 zoomorphic initial in red and brown (f. 93v). Small initals in plain orange-red. A drawing of a human male bearded head added in a margin (f. 31r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236386

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 37 : Augustine, De verbis domini, preceded by a table of contents

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0037]/040-002236386

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:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 310 x 195 mm (text space 240 x 130 mm).

Foliation: ff. iii + 194 (ff. i-ii and 193-194 are modern flyleaves; f. 192 is Burney's table of contents).

Collation: i-xxiii⁸ (ff. 1-184), xxiv^8-1 (last leaf missing, probably blank; ff. 185-191).

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: BM/BL in-house. Green velvet, 1970; a fragment of the previous green velvet is preserved inside the front cover.

Custodial History:

Origin: Germany.

Provenance:

Unidentified monastic owner, 13th century: a title in red, 'Augustin(us) de v(er)bis domini', is followed by a four(?)-word erasure, possibly an ownership note (f. 1r); a marginal note next to one of the sermons begins 'no(n) legit(ur) in r(e)f(ec)torio …', 14th century(?) (f. 132v).

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.

Purchased for the British Museum from Charles Parr Burney, son of Charles Burney, D.D., in 1818.

Administrative Context:

Germany.

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=1389&CollID=18&NStart=37].

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. 7.

P. Verbraken, ‘La collection de sermons de Saint Augustin "De verbis domini et apostol"', Revue bénédictine, 77 (1967), 27-46 (p. 45).

Franz Römer, Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus, 9 vols (Vienna: Böhlau, 1969-2001), II/2: Grossbritannien und Irland: Verzeichnis nach Bibliotheken, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Sitzungsberichte, 276 (1972), p. 166.

Pierre-Patrick Verbraken, Études critiques sur les sermons authentiques de saint Augustin, Instrumenta Patristica, 12 (Steenbrugis: Nijhof, 1976), p. 224.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121376443,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872