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Burney MS 74

Record Id:

040-002236655

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000081

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 74

Title:

Letters and Orations of Demosthenes, Aeschines, Plato, Philip II of Macedon, and Dion, translated by Leonardo Bruni, with prefaces

Scope & Content:

Letters and Orations of Demosthenes, Aeschines, Plato, Philip II of Macedon, and Dion, translated by Leonardo Bruni, with prefaces.

Vertical catchwords.

Decoration:

1 large gold initial on a blue and red ground, with sprays of foliage in the margin. Large puzzle initials in red and blue. Small initials alternately plain red or blue. Litterae notabiliores with yellow wash. Guide-letters.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236655

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 74 : Letters and Orations of Demosthenes, Aeschines, Plato, Philip II of Macedon, and Dion, translated by Leonardo Bruni, with prefaces

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0074]/040-002236655

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1457

End Date:

1467

Date Range:

c 1462

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 205 x 150 mm (text space 120 x 85 mm).

Foliation: ff. vi + 130 + 129*-129******* (ff. i-vi and 129***-129******* are paper flyleaves; f. 130 is Burney's table of contents).

Collation: i-x¹² (ff. 3-122), xiii^10-1 (last leaf missing, probably blank, ff. 123-129**).

Script: Humanistic cursive, with northern features.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Sicily' binding of polished brown calf (typical of manuscripts bought by Burney at Sotheby's, 19 April 1817, which included books said to have been imported from Sicily). Rebacked.

Custodial History:

Origin: France, Central (Paris?).

Provenance:

Unidentified French owner, 16th century: a table of contents listing five items, the last of which is 'Item Johannis Antonij campanj or(ati)o in die cineru(m)' (f. 1r), i.e., an oration on Ash Wednesday by Giovanni Antonio Campano (b. 1429, d. 1477) delivered in the presence of, and apparently presented to, Pope Pius II on 3 March 1462.

Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 424 among the manuscripts, knocked-down to 'Lowes'/'Lewes' for 10s.

Included with a number of other unsold(?) Askew manuscripts from the 1785 sale, in the sale of the library of Rev. Edwards, rector of Peterstone, 12 February 1787, lot 1496, bought by d’Éon for 12s. 6d.

Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée, Chevalier D'Éon de Beaumont in the French nobility (b. 1728, d. 1810), diplomatist and transvestite; inscribed 'De la Bibliothèque de la Chevaliere D'Éon ./. Olim Maffeianus' (f. 2r; a number of Maffei of Volterra manuscripts passed through d'Éon's hands, but there is no clear evidence that this is one of them); '£15. st:' in red (f. 2v); his sale catalogues, 5 May 1791, 4th catalogue, lot 32, and 12 February 1813, lot 12 (in the former catalogue the manuscript still contains the Campano text, in the latter catalogue it has been separated and appears as lot 20; it is now Edinburgh University Library, MS Laing 52; see Borland 1916 no. 97).

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, Central (Paris?).

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=1346&CollID=18&NStart=74].

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: The British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), pp. 24-5.

Catherine R. Borland, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library (Edinburgh: University Press, 1916), no. 97.

José Ruysschaert, 'Recherche des deux bibliothèques romaines Maffei des XVe et XVIe siècles', La Bibliofilia, 60 (1958), 306-33 (p. 322, no. 19).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Aeschines, Socraticus, fl 330 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
Bruni, Leonardo, Italian humanist, 1370-1444,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121442279
Demosthenes, statesman and orator, 384 BC-322 BC
Edwards, Reverend, rector of Peterstone, 18th century
Philip of Macedon
Plato, 427 BC-347 BC
Syracuse, Dion, 408 BC-354 BC