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Burney MS 40

Record Id:

040-002236389

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00005f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 40

Title:

Origen, translated by Rufinus, 16 homilies on Genesis, 13 homilies on Exodus

Scope & Content:

Origen, translated by Rufinus, 16 homilies on Genesis (ff. 1v-51r); 13 homilies on Exodus (ff. 51r-90v).

Decoration:

Spaces for initials left blank.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236389

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 40 : Origen, translated by Rufinus, 16 homilies on Genesis, 13 homilies on Exodus

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0040]/040-002236389

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1125

End Date:

1174

Date Range:

2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 235 x 155 mm (170 x 105 mm).

Foliation: ff. 90 (preceded and followed by unfoliated paper flyleaves).

Script: Protogothic; rubrics and running headings from f. 61r, the start of the ninth gathering.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown polished calf binding; rebacked in 1962.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

The benedictine abbey of Camaldoli, near Poppi in Arezzo province: inscribed ‘Iste e(st) fr(atru)m s(an)c(t)i B(e)n(e)d(ict)i ordi(ni)s [last word erased:] Camaldule(n)sis’ (f. 90v); traces of further erased ownership inscriptions (f. 1r); cf. Egerton MS 3036 and Yates Thompson MS 40, both Camaldolese manuscripts).

Mr White: his sale, 5 December 1814, lot 564, bought by Burney for £1 1s.

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:

France.

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=1359&CollID=18&NStart=40].

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. 8.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Monastery of Camaldoli
Origen, c 185-c 254,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213322,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95155322
Rufinus of Aquileia, c 345-411,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109183286,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/77679446
White, Joseph, orientalist and theologian, c 1746-1814