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Burney MS 62
- Record Id:
- 040-002236588
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000075
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 62
- Title:
- Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, with scholia, vitae, and epigrams
- Scope & Content:
- Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, with scholia, vitae, and epigrams.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236588 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 62 : Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, with scholia, vitae, and epigrams - Contains:
- Burney MS 62, ff 1r-1v : Seven epigrams by Metrodorus, Palladas of Alexandria, Carphyllides and Lucian from the Anthologia Graeca (TLG 7000.001),…
Burney MS 62, ff 2r-100r : Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica (TLG 0001.001), with a few scholia.
Burney MS 62, ff 100r-100v : Life of Apollonius of Rhodes (life A in Wendel 1935, pp. 15-22, TLG 5012.001).
Burney MS 62, ff 100v-101r : Prose ὑπόθεσις of the Argonautica (Wendel 1935, pp 216-317, TLG 5021.001).
Burney MS 62, ff 101r-101v : ῾Ιστορία τῶν περὶ Φρίξον καὶ ῞Ελλην καὶ τὸ χρυσόμαλλον…
Burney MS 62, f 101v : Life of Apollonius of Rhodes (life B in Wendel 1935, p. 213-14, TLG 5012.001).
Burney MS 62, ff 101v-204r : Scholia in Apollonium Rhodium (TLG 5012.001), the Paris recension, Wendel 1935, pp. 7-329.
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- 032-002236305[0062]/040-002236588
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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204 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_62 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper (watermark: bull's head, cf. Briquet 1907 no. 15736, Harlfinger 1976-1980 Boeuf 41).
Foliation: ff 204.
Dimensions: 305 x 195 mm.
Ruling: 195 x 100 mm. Leroy 20D1, 30 lines per page.
Binding: Early 19th century binding of brown calf.
Scribe: Anonymus Harvardianus (Hoffmann 1985), ff 2r-204r; ff 1r-v and marginal annotations throughout added by Johannes Franciscus Burana (Repertorium 1A, no. 161).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
Johannes Franciscus Burana (c. 1474-before 1536), professor at Bologna and doctor at Venice: added marginalia throughout the manuscript and the epigrams on ff 1r-v.
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:
- Italy.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_62].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840 p. 21.
E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 3 (1889) pp. 149-155 (p. 150, No. 70).
C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes, 4 vols, Geneva, etc. 1907 (repr. Amsterdam 1965).
H. Fraenkel, Die Handschriften der Argonautika des Apollonios von Rhodos (Nachrichten der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, philol.-hist. Klasse), Göttingen 1929, p. 181.
C. Wendel, Die Überlieferung der Scholien zu Apollonios von Rhodos (Abhandlungen der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen philol.-hist. Klasse 3.1), Berlin 1932, p. 12.
C. Wendel, Scholia in Apollonium Rhodium vetera (Bibliothecae graecae et latinae auctarium Weidmannianum 4), Berlin 1935.
D. and J. Harlfinger, Wasserzeichen aus griechischen Handschriften, I-II, Berlin 1974-1980.
P. Hoffmann, 'Un mystérieux collaborateur d'Alde Manuce: l'Anonymus Harvardianus', Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen-Age, Temps modernes 97 (1985) pp. 45-143 (pp. 122-25).
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 43.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)