Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??

Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

Burney MS 65

Record Id:

040-002236598

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000078

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 65

Title:

Boethius, Translation of Aristotle's Topica, with glosses

Scope & Content:

Boethius, Translation of Aristotle's Topica, with glosses.

The script, ruling, and decoration change at the beginning of quire iv (f. 37).

Decoration:

1 large initial in colours and gold (f. 1r). 3 small puzzle initials in red and blue, flourished in red and blue, at the beginning of books (ff. 11v, 21r, 27v, etc.). Small initials in red with blue flourishing or blue with red flourishing (purple with red on f. 47r). Paraphs alternately blue or red except in quires iv-v (ff. 37-60) where they are purple or red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236598

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 65 : Boethius, Translation of Aristotle's Topica, with glosses

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0065]/040-002236598

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1349

Date Range:

1st half of the 14th century

Era:

Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:

Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript

Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 210 x 160 mm (text space 110 x 60 mm).

Foliation: ff. iv + 78 (ff. i-iv and 77-78 are flyleaves).

Collation: i-iii¹² (ff. 1-36); iv-vi (ff. 37-72), vii^four (ff. 73-76).

Script: Gothic.

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).

Custodial History:

Origin: France, S.

Provenance:

Unidentified medieval owners: with marginal annotations by several hands in pencil and ink.

Formerly part of a larger volume (an old ink foliation (17th century?) runs from '133' to '208'), and perhaps composed of two originally separate volumes: the last several lines of f. 36v are repeated on f. 37r.

Mr White [possibly Joseph White (bap. 1746, d. 1814), orientalist and theologian]: his anonymous sale ('… Recently Imported from the Continent …'), 5 December 1814, lot 565, bought by Burney for £1 6s.

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, S.

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=1353&CollID=18&NStart=65].

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: The British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), pp. 21-2.

Georges Lacombe and others Aristoteles latinus, new edn (Bruges and Paris: de Brouwer, 1957), p. 378 no. 297.

Codices Boethiani : A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius ed. by M. T. Gibson and Lesley Smith, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, 25 (London: Warburg Institute, 1995- ), I: Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, pp. 127-28.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, c 480-524/525,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122834442,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100218964
White, Joseph, orientalist and theologian, c 1746-1814