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Burney MS 77
- Record Id:
- 040-002236687
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000084
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 77
- Title:
- Latin translation of Hephaestion, Enchiridion, by Vincente Mariner Valentine, with descriptions, a preface, and a translated Latin epigram
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 2r-7v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Preface addressed to Francisco de Rioja, librarian and poet. Latin.
ff. 8r-8v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Epigram addressed to Francisco de Rioja, with a Latin translation.
ff. 9r-136v: Vincente Mariner Valentine, Latin translation of Hephaestian's Enchiridion de metris, and of the scholia.
ff. 137r-138v: Diagramma sive descriptio pedum. Latin. Inc. Pedes aut sunt disyllabi.
ff. 139r-140r: Diagramma sive descriptio poematum. Latin. Inc. Poemata sunt systematica.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236687 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 77 : Latin translation of Hephaestion, Enchiridion, by Vincente Mariner Valentine, with descriptions, a preface, and a translated… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0077]/040-002236687
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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140 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1639
- End Date:
- 1639
- Date Range:
- 1639
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 205 x 145 (Text Space: 170 x 100) mm.
Foliation: ff. i + 140.
Ruling: 18 lines (ff. 2r-7r), 21-25 lines (ff. 9r-140r).
Binding: Marbled fore-edges. 18th century binding of gold tooled brown leather with fleurons in the corners of the covers.
Script: Not autograph, but the hand is identical to that in Egerton 550, ff. 1r-43v, which contains another text by Mariner. Folio references in the margins of ff. 9r-136v.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Spain (?El Escorial).
Provenance:
Dated 1 Sept. 1639 (f. 9r) and 4 Oct. 1639 (f. 136v).
Owned by Anthony Askew, M.D.
Purchased by David Leathes at Askew's sale, Leigh and Sotheby's, 7 March 1785, lot 384.
Purchased by Williams at Leathes's sale, Leigh and Sotheby's, 27 Oct. 1796, lot 1441 (inscription, f. i).
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), classical scholar.
Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney's library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 34.
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.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 49.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)