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Burney MS 69

Record Id:

040-002236621

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00007c

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 69

Title:

Greek treatises on warfare, with numerous drawings

Scope & Content:

Greek treatises on warfare, with numerous drawings. Includes works by Athenaeus, Biton, Heron, Apollodorus, Philo of Byzantium, Leo VI the Wise, and others.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236621

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 69 : Greek treatises on warfare, with numerous drawings

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0069]/040-002236621

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

366 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1545

End Date:

1545

Date Range:

7 May 1545

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Foliation: ff 366. Two unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and one at the end. ff 359-366 are also modern paper.

Dimensions: 315 x 220 mm.

Ruling: 225 x 130 mm. 29 lines.

Binding: Post-1600. Parchment over pasteboard with Greek-style gold-tooled border and central double-S monogram on upper and lower boards, last quarter of the 18th century; gilt edges.

Scribe: (ff 1r-45v, 54r-63v, 73r-88v, 97r-116v, 118v-358r) identified as the scribe of Escorial MS gr. 138 (ex-info. Mark Sosower).

Decoration: Numerous drawings, usually painted in some combination of yellow, red, green and/or grey (ff 5r, 5v, 7r, 7v, 8r, 9r, 14r, 15r, 16r, 16v, 17v, 18r, 18v, 19r, 22r, 24r, 25r, 26r, 26v, 27r, 28r, 29r, 30v, 32r, 33r, 35r, 35v, 36v, 2 x 27r, 37v, 38r, 38v, 39v, 40r, 2 x 40v, 41r, 41v, 43r, 43v, 44r, 45r, 45v, 47r, 47v, 48r, 49r, 49v, 50r, 50v, 51v, 52r. 2 headpieces of a woven pattern (ff 1r, 99r). Small red or brown initials.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, N. E. (Venice).

Provenance:

Transcription of the text completed 7 May 1545 (colophon, f 358r).

The Monastery of St Catherine, Mount Sinai: inscription (f 1r).

? John Spencer Smith, minister plenipotentiary to Turkey: sale catalogue notices that the manuscript was 'collected by one of His Majesty's Foreign Minsters at the Island of Patmos, in the Archipelago' (ff 359r, 361r, 363r); 'SS' monogram (upper and lower boards of the binding).

Unidentified owner: included in an anonymous sale at King and Lochée, 24 February 1810, purchased by Burney: note (f 359v).

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, N. E. (Venice).

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_69].

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1390&CollID=18&NStart=69].

Publications:

M. Thévenot, Mathematicorum veterum opera, Paris 1693.

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840 pp. 22-24.

V. Prou, 'La chirobaliste d'Héron d'Alexandrie', Notices et extraits des manuscripts de la Bibliothèque Nationale 26.2 (1877) pp. 116-149.

H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-350, 584 (p. 332).

R. Schneider, Griechische Poliorketiker III (AKGWG philol.hist. Klasse n.f. 12.5), Berlin 1912.

H. Diels and E. Schramm, Heronis Belopoika (AKPAW phil.hist. Klasse 2), Berlin 1918.

A. Rehm and E. Schramm, Bitons Bau von Belagerungsmaschinen und Geschützen (ABAW philol.-hist. Abt. n.f. 2), Munich 1929.

A. Dain, 'Inventaire raisonné des cent manuscrits des "Constitutions Tactiques" de Léon VI le Sage', Scriptorium 1 (1946-1947) pp. 33-49 (p. 42, no. 46).

J. A. de Foucault, Strategemata, Paris 1949, pp. 75-120.

A. Dain, 'Les Stratégistes Byzantins', Travaux et Mémoires du Centre de Recherche d'Histoire et Civilisation Byzantines 2 (1967) pp. 317-392.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 44-46.

Exhibitions:

Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Monastery of St Catherine, Mount Sinai, Mid 6th century-
Smith, John Spencer, FRS, diplomat, politican and writer, 1769-1845