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Burney MS 95

Record Id:

040-002236813

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000096

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 95

Title:

Codex Crippsianus

Scope & Content:

Codex Crippsianus, containing speeches by the minor Attic Orators, including Andocides, Isaeus, Dinarchus, Antiphon, Lycurgus, Gorgias, Alcidamas, and Lesbonax. One of the primary witnesses of the texts of the Andocides, Isaeus, Dinarchus and Antiphon.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236813

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 95 : Codex Crippsianus

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0095]/040-002236813

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

172 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1349

Date Range:

1st half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Foliation: ff ii + 174 (ff i recto and 174v are paper flyleaves; ff i verso, ii, 1, 2, 173, and 174r are parchment flyleaves).

Ruling: 220 x 150 mm. Leroy V 00D1, 31-38 lines per page.

Binding: Early 19th century binding of blind tooled brown calf.

Scribe: Michael Klostomalles (identified by Lamberz 1993, cf. Lamberz 1998 and 2000).

Decoration: Red simple headpieces, some with woven or foliate patterns (ff 3r, 19r, 22r, 26v, 41v, 49r, 63v, 70v, 77r, 90v, 94r, 96v, 101r, 107r, 130v, 152r, 162v). Large red initials, many with penwork decoration, or made up of geometric forms, and with birds; 1 zoomorphic red initial of a bird (f 34v).

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople).

Provenance:

Corrections by the hand of the scribe (Michael Klostomalles) and by one other hand.

The monastery of Vatopedi, Mount Athos (early pressmark 'theseos 3' and between 1700 and 1799 inscription 'hek tes megales bibliothekes tou Vatopaidiou', f 1r).

Possibly part of the gift of the Emperor John VI Cantecuzenus between 1347 and 1354 (See Lamberz 1998 p. 571).

Prince Alexander Bano Hantzerli (French notes in his hand, ff. 1v, 45v-54v, 97-100, 152-154v, see Wyse, 1904, pp. xii-xiv).

Edward Daniel Clarke (b. 1769, d. 1822), antiquary and mineralogist, and John Marten Cripps (b. 1780, d. 1853), traveller and antiquary: acquired from Hantzerli after 1802.

Sold at the King and Locheé sale, 25 April 1808, bought by George Nicol (b. 1740?, d. 1828), bookseller and publisher, for £372 15s (printed enclosed sale notice, ff 171r-172v), possibly purchased for Burney.

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar: in his collection by 1812.

Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.

Administrative Context:

Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople).

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_95].Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7154&CollID=18&NStart=95].

Publications:

E. D. Clarke, Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, 4th edn, 11 vols, London 1814-1824, VIII (1818), p. 196 note.

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, pp. 41-42, pl. II.

E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 3 (1889) pp. 149-155 (p. 152, no. 86).

W. Wyse, The Speeches of Isaeus, Cambridge 1904, pp. i-xlvii.

New Palaeographical Society, Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, etc., First Series, 2 vols, ed. E. M. Thompson and others, London 1903-1912, I, pl. 79.

N. G. Wilson, 'Some Palaeographical Notes', Classical Quarterly n.s. 10 (1960) p. 202.

D. MacDowell, 'Gorgias, Alkidamas and the Cripps and Palatine Manuscripts', Classical Quarterly n.s. 11 (1961) pp. 113-124.

Lycurgi Oratio in Leocratem, ed. N. C. Conomis, Leipzig 1970, pp. vi-vii, ix-xvi (cod. A).

Dinarchi Orationes cum fragmentis, ed. N. C. Conomis, Leipzig 1975, pp.vi-vii (cod. A).

N. G. Wilson, Scholars of Byzantium, London 1983, p.229.

E. Lamberz, 'Kanzleischreiber der Palaiologenzeit ca. 1280-1360', Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of Greek Palaeography, Oxford 23-29 August 1993,

Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture, British Museum exhibition catalogue, ed. D. Buckton, London 1994, pp. 201-202.

E. Lamberz, ‘The Library of Vatopaidi and its Manuscripts’, in The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi. Tradition - History - Art, Mount Athos 1998, II, pp. 562-74 (pp. 570, 571, 672 n. 7, 676 nn. 77-78).

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 58-59.

E. Lamberz, 'Das Geschenk des Kaisers Manuel II an das Kloster Saint-Denis und der “Metochitesschreiber” Michael Klostomalles', in Lithostrōton : Studien zur byzantinischen Kunst und Geschichte: Festschrift für Marcell Restle, ed. Birgitt Borkopp and Thomas Steppan, Stuttgart 2000, pp. 155–65.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Clarke, Edward Daniel, traveller, 1769-1822
Cripps, John Marten, traveller, 1780-1853
Hantzerli, Alexander Bano, Prince
John VI, Byzantine Emperor, Cantacuzenus, 1292-1383
Klostomalles, Michael, scribe, 1st half of the 14th century
Monastery of Vatopedi, Athos, Mount
Nicol, George, bookseller