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Burney MS 102
- Record Id:
- 040-002236913
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00009d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 102
- Title:
- Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harmonica.
- Scope & Content:
- Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harmonica. Πίνακες (ff. 3, 24, 49) are included to Books I-III. Extensive interlinear and marginal scholia in the same hand. Pen diagrams and tables.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236913 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 102 : Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harmonica. - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0102]/040-002236913
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
68 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1524
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 320 x 210 (210 x 120) mm.
Foliation: ff. 68.
Ruling: Leroy 20D1, 28 lines.
Binding: Early 19th century binding of brown calf.
Script: Written by the same scribe as Burney 103 and 108, possibly in Venice.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. (?Venice)
Provenance:
Written by the same scribe as Burney 103 and 108, possibly in Venice. Originally formed one volume with Burney 103 and 108.
Bound together with Burney 84 when owned by Maffeo Pinelli (d.1785), of Venice ('7949', f. i, as in J. Morelli, Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinelli, Venice 1787, iii).
Purchased by James Sims at the London sale of the Pinelli library 2 March 1789, lot 12855, and by Burney at Sims' sale, Leigh and Sotheby's, 20 Feb. 1809, lot 2458.
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.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy, N. (?Venice)
- Publications:
-
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 44.
I. Düring, Die Harmonielehre des Klaudios Ptolemaios (Göteborgs Högskolas Årsskrift 36.1), Göteborg 1930, p. xv no. 16.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 64.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Claudius Ptolemaeus