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Burney MS 66
- Record Id:
- 040-002236599
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000079
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 66
- Title:
- Commentaries on Aristotle
- Scope & Content:
- Commentaries on Aristotle by John Philoponus and others.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236599 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 66 : Commentaries on Aristotle - Contains:
- Burney MS 66, ff 2r-6v : Aristotle, Categoriae (TLG 0086.006), extracts. Tit. ᾽Εκ τῶν τοῦ ᾽Αριστοτέλους δέκα…
Burney MS 66, ff 7r-18r : Notes on Aristotle's Analytica priora.
Burney MS 66, ff 19r-51v : John Philoponus, In Aristotelis libros de anima commentaria (TLG 4015.008), extract, consisting of the commentary on…
Burney MS 66, ff 52r-67v : Latin commentary on Aristotle's Organon. Inc. Quod facere navium gubernatores solent.
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- 032-002236305[0066]/040-002236599
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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67 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_66 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 67. Dimensions: 140 x 105 mm.
Ruling: 110 x 60 mm, ff 2r-18r; 95 x 65 mm, ff 19r-51v; 90 x 60 mm, ff 52r-67v. 17 lines per page, ff 2r-6r; 28 lines per page, ff 7r-18r; 17-18 lines per page, ff 19r-22v; 15 lines per page, ff 23r-51r; 16 lines per page, ff 52r-67v. ff 52-67v were bound at the beginning of the volume by 1811.
Binding: Early 19th century binding of tooled leather.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
John Field (fl. 1590s), of Pembroke College Cambridge, owned c. 1600: his signature, 'Jo: Feildus', f 52r, as in Cotton MS Vespasian A xiii, f 1r; Cotton Titus D xix, f 3r; Cotton Cleopatra D i, f 130r; Durham University Library, Cosin MS V.III.8 and R.xii.E.12 (printed in 1549).
Richard Heber (b. 1774, d.1833), book collector: purchased by him at an anonymous sale, Leigh and Sotheby's, 27 June 1811, lot 217.
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_66].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 22.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 44.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)