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Burney MS 75
- Record Id:
- 040-002236656
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000082
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 75
- Title:
- Letters by or attributed to classical and Byzantine figures, including Libanius, Nicholas Cabasilas, Brutus, Demetrius Cydones, Gregory of Nazianzus, and others
- Scope & Content:
- Letters by or attributed to classical and Byzantine figures, including Libanius, Nicholas Cabasilas, Brutus, Demetrius Cydones, Gregory of Nazianzus, and others.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236656 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 75 : Letters by or attributed to classical and Byzantine figures, including Libanius, Nicholas Cabasilas, Brutus, Demetrius Cydones,… - Contains:
- Burney MS 75, ff 1r-138r : ff 1r-2r, Eunapius of Sardis, Life of Libanius the Sophist (TLG 2050.001). Printed in Foerster, Libanius I, pp. 4-8.ff…
Burney MS 75, ff 138r-144v : Cardinal Bessarion, Letter to Georgios Gemistos Plethon (Ep. 18) (TLG 3229.013, PG 161.713)
Burney MS 75, ff 145r-159v : ff 145r-146v, Nicholas Cabasilas, Sermon to the Athenians on the Altar of Peace (᾽Αγγελόπουλος 1970,…
Burney MS 75, ff 160-168v : ff 160r-v, Five scholia on Aristotle's De naturali auscultatione, inc. ᾽Επεὶ παντὸς τοῦ…
Burney MS 75, ff 169v-178v : ff 170r-174v, Basil of Caesarea, Correspondence with Libanius. Listed in Foerster, Libanius IX, pp. 190-191,…
Burney MS 75, ff 179v-314v : ff 181r-306v, Demetrius Cydones, 192 Letters (TLG 3197.001, 002), see Loenertz 1956, p. iv. Preceded (ff 179v-180r) by…
Burney MS 75, ff 315r-328r : Gregory of Nazianzus, 54 Letters (TLG 2022.001, PG 37.21, CPG 3032).
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- 032-002236305[0075]/040-002236656
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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328 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_75 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff i + 328. Note that folios within the manuscript without text are unfoliated. One unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and one at the end; two contemporary paper flyleaves before f 1 and one after f 328.
Dimensions: 220 x 145 mm.
Ruling: 150 x 90 mm. Leroy D 32D1, 26 lines (ff 1r-137v, 145r-167r, 170r-175v, 186r-291r, 292r-298r, 307r-314v), 31-32 lines (ff 138r-144v, 176r-185v), 30 lines (ff 299r-306v, 315r-328r), circa 40-44 lines (ff 167v-168v, 291v). Written in one column, except ff 167v-168v, 291v.
Binding: British Museum, 1962.
Decoration: Coloured headpiece with zoomorphic and anthropomorphic features, f 170r.
Scribe: Δημήτριος Ραοὺλ Καβάκης (Repertorium 1A, no. 95) (ff 138r-144v, 177r-178v); formerly erroneously ascribed to Ἰωάσαφ (Repertorium 1A, no. 209e).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Greece (Mistra) or Italy, Central (Rome).
Provenance:
? Cardinal Giovanni Salviati (b. 1490, d. 1553): probably no. 99 in his 1546 catalogue (see Cataldi Palau 1995 no. 77).
Charles Townley (b. 1737, d. 1805), collector of antiquities, acquired in Rome in 1773 together with several other former Salviati manuscripts (including Burney 86, 109, 408, and Additional 5423).
John Towneley (bap. 1697, d. 1782), translator, Charles Townley's great-nephew: his sale, 8 June 1814, lot 886, bought by Burney for £44.
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:
- Greece (Mistra) or Italy, Central (Rome).
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_75].
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1347&CollID=18&NStart=75].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, pp. 25-34.
R. Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci, Paris 1873.
E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 2 (1888) pp. 102-104, 171-174; 3 (1889) pp. 149-155, 440-445 (3, p. 153, no. 92).
Libanii Opera, ed. R. Foerster, 12 vols, Leipzig 1903-1923.
W. Fritz, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Briefe des Bischofs Synesios (Abhandlungen der königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-philologischen Klasse 23.2) Munich 1905, p. 357, no. 19.
H. Diels, Die Handschriften der antiken Ärzte, II: Die übrigen griechischen Ärzte usfer Hippokrates und Galenos (Abhandlungen der Königlichen Preussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische Klasse 1), Berlin 1906, p. 61.
Demetrius Cydonès, Correspondance, ed. G. Cammelli, Paris 1930, pp. xxxvi, xliv-xlvi (cod. B).
P. Enepekides, 'Die Briefwechsel des Mystikers Nikolaos Kabasilas', Byzantinische Zeitschrift 46 (1953) pp. 18-46 (cod. B), pl.II.
Demetrius Cydonès, Correspondance, ed. R.-J. Loenertz (Studi e Testi 186), Vatican 1956, p. iv (cod. B).
L. Politis, 'Eine Schreiberschule im Kloster ton Hodegon', Byzantinische Zeitschrift 51 (1958) pp. 17-36, 261-287 (p. 22 n.8).
A. A. ᾽Αγγελόπουλος, Νικόλαος Καβάσιλας Χαμαετὸς, ἡ ζωὴ καὶ τὸ ἔργον αὐτοῦ (᾽Ανάλεκτα βλαταδῶν 5), Thessalonica 1970, pp. 75ff.
A. Garzya, 'Inventario dei manoscritti delle Epistole di Sinesio', Atti dell'Academia Pontaniana n.s. 22 (1973) pp. 251-294 (p. 265, no. 113).
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), Vienna 1981, no. 95, 209e.
P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain, Leiden 1989, p. 132.
A. Cataldi Palau, 'La biblioteca del Cardinale Giovanni Salviati: Alcuni nuovi manoscritti greci in biblioteche diverse della Vaticana', Scriptorium 49 (1995) pp. 60-95 (pp. 70, 83, 91, no. 77).
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 47-48.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)