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Burney MS 51
- Record Id:
- 040-002236496
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00006a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100192110653.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 51
- Title:
- Two fragments of the works of St Gregory of Nazianzus
- Scope & Content:
- Two fragments of the works of St Gregory of Nazianzus, the first dating from the late 10th or 11th century, the second dating from the 14th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236496 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 51 : Two fragments of the works of St Gregory of Nazianzus - Contains:
- Burney MS 51, ff 1r-18v : Fragment I
Burney MS 51, ff 20r-v : Fragment II
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Burney MS 51 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0051]/040-002236496
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
20 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100192110653.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0975
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 10th century-14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff 20. Eight unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and five at the end, in addition, ff 18a-d, 19, and 19a are flyleaves or leaves of lined Burney notepaper, some with watermarks of an image of Britannia.
Dimensions: Fragment I: 300 x 225 mm. Fragment II: 280 x 180 mm.
Ruling: Fragment I: 210 x 150 mm. Leroy K 40C2, 21 lines. Fragment II: 205 x 150 mm. Leroy K 40E2. 22 lines. Written in two columns on f 20r and in one on f 20v.
Collation (Fragment I only): Gatherings of 8 leaves λαʹ-λβʹ (ff 1-16). λγʹ (ff 17-18) is incomplete. Old pagination pp.481-516.
Decoration (Fragment I only): Illuminated headpiece, f 3v.
Binding: Fragments I-II are kept together in a 19th century binding of quarter leather (cf. Burney 24).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Fragment I possibly from Constantinople).
Provenance:
For ff 20rv (Fragment 2) only:
John Monro (b. 1715, d. 1791), physician (autograph note, f 20r): possibly sold at his sale 23 April 1792 as part of lots 3389, 3390, which passed to Burney and now form part of Burney 276 and 277. See also Harley 5672, ff 19r-23r and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Holmes MS 158.
For both parts:
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:
- Eastern Mediterranean (Fragment I possibly from Constantinople).
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_51].
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1394&CollID=18&NStart=51].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 18, pl. I.
S. J. Voicu and S. D’Alisera, I. MA. G. E. S.: index in manuscriptorum graecorum edita specimina, Rome 1981, p. 374.
J. Mossay and X. Lequeux, Repertorium Nazianzenum. Orationes. Textus Graecus, 2: Codices Americae, Angliae, Austriae (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums, n.f. 2 Reihe: Forschungen zu Gregor von Nazianz, 5 Band), Paderborn 1987, p. 60, no. 59.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 37-38.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)