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Burney MS 80
- Record Id:
- 040-002236714
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000087
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 80
- Title:
- Philosophical extracts
- Scope & Content:
- Heraclides Lembus' extracts from Aristotle, Politeia, extracts from Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, and Aelian, De natura animalium, and Epictetus, Enchiridion. The manuscript was identified as part of codex f of Aelian's Varia Historia by Dilts (1965) pp. 67-68
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236714 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 80 : Philosophical extracts - Contains:
- Burney MS 80, ff 1r-14r : Heraclides Lembus, Excerpta politiarum (TLG 1407.001).
Burney MS 80, ff 14v-35r : Extracts from Marcus Aurelius, Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν (TLG 0562.001) combined with extracts from Aelian, De…
Burney MS 80, ff 36r-58v : Epictetus, Enchiridion (TLG 0557.001). A few marginal variants. Followed (f 58v) by a short text, inc. εἰ μὲν…
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- 032-002236305[0080]/040-002236714
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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59 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_80 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 59.
Dimensions: 205 x 135 mm.
Ruling: 115 x 65 mm. Leroy 00D1(?), 20 lines per page.
Binding: 18th century binding of gold tooled russian leather. Marbled fore-edges.
Scribe: Ἰωάννης Φρουλᾶς (cf. Hadot (1981), pp. 394-95).
Decoration: Marbled edges, listed on DM as f iii r (fore-edge), f iv r (lower edge) and f v r (upper edge).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
Frederic Sluisken, Curiae Hollandiae praeses, owned in the late 17th century: collated by Perizonius for his 1701 edition of Aelian (Dilts 1965, p. 67).
Peter Bardon, owned in the early 18th century: collated by Gronovius for his 1731 edition of Aelian (Dilts 1965, p. 68).
Richard Mead (b. 1673, d. 1754), physician and collector of books and art: bequeathed to Askew.
Anthony Askew (b. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 574, purchased by Wodhull. By this point the original manuscript had been divided into two codices. The other volume, containing the Varia Historia of Aelian (lot 543) was also purchased by Wodhull, and was sold as part of the Severne sale of items collected by Wodhull (Sotheby's, 11 January 1886, lot 14). It was there bought by Bernard Quaritch for Prince Mavrocordato, but does not appear to have passed to the National Library in Athens with Mavrocordato's other manuscripts (Dilts 1965, p. 68).
Michael Wodhull (b. 1740, d. 1816), book collector and poet (his bibliographical notes, ff. 3, 300): his sale, 3 March 1801, lot 521.
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:
- Eastern Mediterranean.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_80].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, pp. 35-36.
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. 444, no.149).
P. A. Revilla and G. de Andrés, Catálogo de los Códices griegos de la Biblioteca de El Escorial, 3 vols, Madrid 1936-37, I, p. 164.
M. R. Dilts, 'The Manuscript Tradition of Aelian's Varia Historia and Heraclides' Politiae', Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 96 (1965) pp. 57–72 (pp. 67-68).
I. Hadot, 'La tradition manuscrite du commentaire de Simplicius sur le Manuel d'Épictète', Revue d'histoire des textes 11 (1981) pp. 394-95.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 51.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)