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Burney MS 41

Record Id:

040-002236390

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000060

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 41

Title:

Gospels, with prologues, mass readings, capitula lists, and canon tables

Scope & Content:

Gospels, with prologues (ff. 2r-6v, 58r-v, 79v-80r, 115v-116r), mass readings (ff. 6v-17v), capitula lists (ff. 17v-19r, 58v-59v, 80r-81v, 116r-117r), and canon tables (ff. 19v-23v, incomplete).

Decoration:

1 full-page miniature (unfinished drawing) (f. 26***v). Full-page canon tables, some painted, some inhabited (ff. 19v-26r). 1 large foliate initial, in red ink. Small initials in plain red. Marginal sketches (ff. 51r, 58v). Each Gospel is preceded by at least one blank leaf (foliated with asterisks), presumably intended for decoration; blank spaces are also left for the opening initials of each Gospel except on f. 27r.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236390

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 41 : Gospels, with prologues, mass readings, capitula lists, and canon tables

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0041]/040-002236390

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1069

End Date:

1130

Date Range:

c 1074-c 1125

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 390 x 295 mm (text space 265 x 185 mm in two columns).

Foliation: ff. v + 147 + 26*-26*** + 59* + 81*-81** + 117* (f. 1 is paper; ff. i-v and 143-147 are modern flyleaves).

Collation: i⁸ (ff. 2-9), ii⁶ (ff. 10-15), iii⁸ (ff. 16-23), iv⁶ (ff. 24-26***), v-viii⁸ (ff. 27-58), ix² (ff. 59-59*), x-xii⁸ (ff. 60-81**), xiii-xvii⁸ (ff. 82-120), xviii⁶ (ff. 121-126), xix-xx⁸ (ff. 127-142).

Script: Caroline minuscule.

Binding: Post-1600. Blind-tooled calf; 18th century; rebacked in 1962.

Custodial History:

Origin: Germany (Lotharingia?).

Provenance:

Unidentified French owner, 18th century: inscribed 'Ce manuscrit est du neuvième Siecle' (f. 1r).

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (b.1754, d.1838), Prince of Benevento, Bishop of Autun, and French minister and ambassador: his anonymous sale (Bibliotheca Splendidissima … consigned from the Continent …), 8 May 1816, lot 3455, bought by Burney for £9 19s. 6d.

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:

Germany (Lotharingia?).

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=1672&CollID=18&NStart=41].

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.

Theodor Klauser, Das ro¨mische capitulare evangeliorum: Texte und Untersuchungen zu seiner a¨ltesten Geschichte, Liturgiegeschichtliche Quellen und Forschungen. 28 (Munster: Aschendorffschen, 1935), p. L no. 159.

Michelle P. Brown, The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe (London: British Library, 2003), p. 268 n. 50.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Périgord, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-, Prince of Benevento, 1754-1838