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Burney MS 86
- Record Id:
- 040-002236736
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00008d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 86
- Title:
- Townley Homer
- Scope & Content:
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Iliad of Homer, with extensive marginal and interlinear scholia (ff 1r-281v).
Later added inscriptions and ownership marks, including:
Engraved portrait of Charles Townley, 1812 (f iv recto).
Partly erased 15th-century Italian accounts in Latin (f v recto).
Engraving of a bust of Homer found at Baiae in 1780 and later in the collection of Charles Townley (f vi recto).
Partly erased 15th-century Italian accounts in Latin (f viii recto).
Letter in French from Christian-Gottlob Heyne to Charles Townley concerning the present manuscript, dated 25 March 1792 (ff ix recto-x recto).
Copy of the same letter (ff xi recto).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236736 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 86 : Townley Homer - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0086]/040-002236736
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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281 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_86 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French
Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1058
- End Date:
- 1060
- Date Range:
- ?1059
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: parchment (except ff i, ii, iv, vi, ix-xii, paper).
Dimensions: 300 x 420 mm (text space 190 x 120; 275 x 210 with scholia).
Foliation: ff vi + 281 + vi.
Script: minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold tooled brown morocco (rebacked), 18th century.
- Custodial History:
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Probably written in 1059: colophon (f 281v).
Salviati family, 15th century, when used by Petrus Victorius.
Giovanni Salviati (b. 1490, d. 1553), cardinal: probably his erased ownership inscription (f iii verso); included in the auction catalogue of his library, 1546, lot 77 (Cataldi Palau, ''Cardinale Salviati'' (1995), pp. 70, 82-83, 85, 91).
Charles Townley (b. 1737, d. 1805), collector of antiquities: acquired at Rome in 1773, together with several other Salviati manuscripts, including Burney 75, 109 and 408, and Add. 5423.
John Towneley (b. 1731, d. 1813): his bookplate (f i recto); his sale, Evans’, 8 June 1814, lot 884.
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. - Publications:
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T. F. Dibdin, The Bibliographical Decameron, London 1817, iii p. 107.
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 37, pl. II.
Palaeographical Society, Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, Series I and II, ed. E. A. Bond, E. M. Thompson and G. F. Warner, London 1873-1901, i p. 67.
Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem Townleyana, ed. E. Maass, Oxford 1887-88.
E. M. Thompson, ''Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts'', Classical Review ii (1888) pp. 102-04 at p. 103 No. 5.
New Palaeographical Society, Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, etc., Series I and II, ed. E. M. Thompson and others, London 1903-1934, i p. 204.
E. M. Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography, Oxford 1912, pp. 235, 244-45 (facs. 66).
Homeri Ilias, ed. T. W. Allen, 3 vols, Oxford 1931, i Prol. p. 40 No. 125 (cod. T), pp. 168-71, 267.
K. and S. Lake, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200, Boston 1934-1945, MS 71, Pls. 127-28.
Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, ed. H. Erbse, 5 vols, Berlin 1969-1977, i p. xxvi (incl. further bibliography).
R. Barbour, Greek Literary Hands A. D. 400-1600, Oxford 1981, p. 14 No. 50.
N. G. Wilson, Scholars of Byzantium, London 1983, p. 166.
A. Cataldi Palau ''La biblioteca del Cardinale Giovanni Salviati. Alcuni nuovi manoscritti greci in biblioteche diverse della Vaticana'', Scriptorium xlix (1995) pp. 67-94.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 52-53.
M. L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad, Munich-Leipzig 2001, pp. 141, 151-52.
- Exhibitions:
- Discovering literature: Romantics and Victorians, (online), 20 February 2014-
Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
Troy, British Museum, London, 21 November 2019 - 8 March 2020 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)