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Burney MS 39
- Record Id:
- 040-002236388
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00005e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 39
- Title:
- William Brito, Expositio vocabulorum Bibliae
- Scope & Content:
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William Brito, Expositio vocabulorum Bibliae.
Decoration:
Large puzzle initials in red and blue with red infill and flourishing (e.g. f. 38r). Large initials in blue with red infill and flourishing. Small initials in plain red or blue. Many sections have all initials in plain red (e.g. ff. 2r-34r), red and blue initials alternate elsewhere. Line-fillers used sporadically (e.g. ff. 37v-38r, 52r), occasionally in the shape of a fish (e.g., f. 144r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236388 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 39 : William Brito, Expositio vocabulorum Bibliae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0039]/040-002236388
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1275
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 160 mm (text space 175 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. vii + 188 (ff. i-vii, 1, and 174-188 are flyleaves).
Collation: Collation uncertain, but apparently: i-iv10 (ff. 2-41), v-vii12 (ff. 42-77), viii8 (ff. 78-85), ix10 (ff. 86-95), x8 (ff. 96-103), xi12 (ff. 104-115), xii6 (ff. 115-121), xiii12-4 (last 4 cancelled?; ff. 122-129), xiv12 (ff. 130-141), xv10 (ff. 142-151), xvi14 (ff. 152-165), xvii8 (ff. 166-173).
Script: Gothic. By several scribes, with changes of hand at ff. 42r, 67r, 130r, and 152r.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Sicily' binding of polished brown calf (typical of manuscripts bought by Burney at Sotheby's, 19 April 1817, which included books said to have been imported from Sicily). Re-backed in 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Inscriptions: 'Iste liber constat [remainder erased]', 'No lost' and 'Be guod', in an English hand, c.1300 or first quarter of the 14th century (f. 173v).
'Will(el)mo Tilgman Iun(ior) de Snodland [in Kent]', added over the erasure, middle of the 16th century (f. 173v); there was a William Tilgham who died in Snodland in 1572.
Sir Edward Hoby (b. 1560, d. 1617), politician and diplomat: his signature and motto: 'Edw. Hoby' and 'Fato Quam voto.', f. 2r; cf. Burney MS 354 and MS 361, and Additional MS 4898.
? John Brand (b. 1744 d. 1807), antiquary and topographer: inscribed 'A Vocabulary to the Latin Bible, Wrote about A.D. 1380, Some Part of it much Older, tis Compleat' (f. 1v), cf. Burney MS 307, another copy of the same work, in which a similar inscription is said to be in Brand's handwriting; similar inscriptions also occur in Burney MS 287, MS 320 and MS 323.
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.
- 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=1343&CollID=18&NStart=39].
- Publications:
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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. 8.
Summa Britonis sive Guillelmi Britonis Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie, ed. by Lloyd W. Daly and Bernardine A. Daly, 2 vols (Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1975), I, p. xliii.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Brand, John, Reverend; antiquary and topographer; FSA, 1744-1806
Guilelmus Brito, author of Vocabularium Biblicum, c 1165-after 1226,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000010985801X
Hoby, Edward, politician and diplomat, 1560-1617
Snodland, Willelmo Tilgman Iunior, 16th century