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Burney MS 70
- Record Id:
- 040-002236636
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00007d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 70
- Title:
- Basil of Caesarea, De legendis libris gentilium (TLG 2040.002), and other works
- Scope & Content:
- Basil of Caesarea, De legendis libris gentilium (TLG 2040.002), followed by the Carmina Aurea attributed to Pythagoras, and extracts from Hesiod's Works and Days and Theocritus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236636 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 70 : Basil of Caesarea, De legendis libris gentilium (TLG 2040.002), and other works - Contains:
- Burney MS 70, ff 1r-34r : St Basil of Caesarea, De legendis libris gentilium (TLG 2040.002). A few marginal annotations partly Latin. Tit.…
Burney MS 70, ff 34v-38v : [Pythagoras], Carmen aureum (TLG 0632.001).
Burney MS 70, ff 38v-40r : Extracts from Hesiod, Works and Days (TLG 0020.002).
Burney MS 70, ff 40r-40v : Extracts from Theocritus's Idylls (TLG 0005.001).
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- 032-002236305[0070]/040-002236636
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
41 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_70 (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: Parchment.
Foliation: ff 41.
Dimensions: 140 x 90 mm.
Ruling: 95 x 55 mm. Leroy 20D1 (e.g. f 20r), 17 lines per page.
Collation: Gatherings of 10, numbered αʹ-δʹ. Catchwords.
Binding: Early 19th century binding of tooled brown calf.
Scribe: Ioannes Skoutariotes (Repertorium 1A, no. 183).
Decoration: Partial foliate border in pink, blue, and green with small gold balls and the arms of the first owner enclosed in a wreath (f 1r, see a similar border in Burney MS 14, also made in Florence at the end of the 15th century). Large initials in colours and gold (ff. 1, 34v, 38v, 40).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).
Provenance:
Escutcheon with the arms of the first owner (or a dolphin azure(?) with five nails (?)), f 1r.
Partly erased Italian ex-libris, f 2r.
Jan de Witt (b. 1662, d. 1701), scholar and bibliophile: his sale, Dordrecht, 20 Oct. 1701, MSS in octavo No.3.
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, Central (Florence).
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_70].
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1406&CollID=18&NStart=70].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 24.
E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 3 (1889) pp. 440-445 (p. 440, No. 106).
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 46.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)