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Burney MS 73
- Record Id:
- 040-002236648
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000080
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 73
- Title:
- Demetrius Cydones, Homily on St Lawrence (BHG3 978), followed by notes on the history of Jerusalem in Latin
- Scope & Content:
- Demetrius Cydones, Homily on St Lawrence (BHG3 978), followed by notes on the history of Jerusalem in Latin.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236648 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 73 : Demetrius Cydones, Homily on St Lawrence (BHG3 978), followed by notes on the history of Jerusalem in Latin - Contains:
- Burney MS 73, ff 4r-123v : Demetrios Cydones, Homily on St Lawrence (BHG3 978). A few marginal Latin notes.
Burney MS 73, ff 124r-136r : Brief History of Jerusalem, 1100-1191, ff 124r-131v. Inc. [D]ocet Boecius (sic) libro de re militari. Another version…
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- 032-002236305[0073]/040-002236648
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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137 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_73 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - 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: Paper. Watermark: Hand, cf. Briquet 11159, Genoa 1483 (ff 4-123); Scissor, cf. Briquet 3768, Udine 1487, ff 124-136).
Foliation: ff 137. Three unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end. Twenty-five leaves, blank aside from the ruling, after f 136.
Dimensions: 140 x 95 mm.
Ruling: 95 x 65 mm (ff 4r-123r), 90 x 65 mm (ff 124r-135v). 15 lines (ff 4r-123r), 26 lines (ff 124r-135v).
Collation: Greek signatures throughout the volume.
Binding: 18th century binding of gold tooled brown leather with the arms of Michael Wodhull stamped in gold on the upper cover. Gilt fore-edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N.?
Provenance:
Probably created in Northern Italy in the late 1480s: watermarks are similar to those known from Genoa in 1483 and Udine in 1487
Marginal Latin notes in the same 17th century hand as those in Burney 276, ff 29r-40v.
Johannes Bosch, owned in 1675: his ownership inscription, f 4r.
Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: his sale, Leigh and Sotheby's, 7 March 1785, lot 456, where it was purchased by Michael Wodhull.
Michael Wodhull (b. 1740, d. 1816), book collector and poet: his sale, Leigh and Sotheby's, 3 March 1801, lot 242, where it was purchased by Burney.
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.?
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_73].
- 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.
C. Kohler, 'Histoire anonyme des rois de Jérusalem (1099-1187) composée peut-être à la fin du XIIe siècle, Revue de l'Orient latin 5 (1897) pp. 211-53.
C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes, 4 vols, Geneva, etc. 1907 (repr. Amsterdam 1965).
C. Van de Vorst and H. Delehaye, Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum Graecorum Germaniae, Belgii, Angliae (Subsidia Hagiographica 13), Brussels 1913, p. 261.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 47.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)