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Burney MS 68

Record Id:

040-002236620

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00007b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 68

Title:

Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum secretorum

Scope & Content:

Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum secretorum.

Decoration:

Initials alternately red or blue. Decorative catchwords include fish, heraldic arms (f. 9v), and humans.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236620

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 68 : Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum secretorum

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0068]/040-002236620

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 150 x 105 mm (text space 100 x 75 mm).

Foliation: ff. ii + 97 (ff. i-ii and 96-97 are paper flyleaves).

Collation: i-xi⁸ (ff. 2-89), xii^8-2 (7th & 8th leaves missing, probably blank; ff. 90-95).

Script: Gothic cursive. Scribe: John/Jean Clement.

Binding: Post-1600. Polished brown calf; the edges of the leaves yellow; the joints repaired.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

Written by John Clement: his colophon 'Explicit liber Aristotelis de secretis Secretorum. q(uo)d Clement hui(us) tractatus scriptor p(re)cedentis' (f. 95r); his initials in monogram (f. 73v), and the inscription 'John Clement' in the loop of a descender (f. 75r).

Unidentified owners: inscribed with a four-line description, and a price(?) '10.6' (f. 1r).

Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 1492, bought by d'Eon for 9s. 6d.

Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée, Chevalier D'Éon de Beaumont in the French nobility (b. 1728, d. 1810), diplomatist and transvestite: 'De la Bibliotheque de la Chevaliere d'Eon' (f. 1r), '£10. st:' in red (f. ii verso), 'olim Maffeanus' (f. 1v; note that many Maffei manuscripts passed through d'Éon's hands, but there is no clear evidence that this is one of them); his sales, 5 May 1791, 4th catalogue lot 46 and 12 February 1813, lot 12.

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.

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=1400&CollID=18&NStart=68].

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. 22.

Secretum Secretorum, ed. by Robert Steele and A. S. Fulton, Opera hactenus inedita Roberi Baconi, 5 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920), p. xxviii.

Dorothea Waley Singer, Annie Anderson, and Robina Addis, Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Alchemical Manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland Dating from before the XVI Century, 3 vols (Brussels: Lamertin, 1928-1931), III, 1036.

José Ruysschaert, 'Recherche des deux bibliothèques romaines Maffei des XVe et XVIe siècles', La Bibliofilia, 60 (1958), 306-33 (p. 322, no. 18).

Charles B. Schmitt and Dilwyn Knox, Pseudo-Aristoteles Latinus: A Guide to Latin Works falsely attributed to Aristotle before 1500, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, 12 (London: Warburg Institute, 1985), p. 64.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Askew, Anthony, physician and book collector, 1722-1774,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061332085,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/60017882
Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée, Chevalier, diplomat and spy, 1728-1810
Clement, Jean, scribe, fl 1460-1470