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Burney MS 105
- Record Id:
- 040-002236918
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000a0
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100189735319.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 105
- Title:
- Pappas of Alexandria, Synagoge, imperfect
- Scope & Content:
- Pappas of Alexandria, Synagoge, imperfect, including extracts from the Mechanica of Heron of Alexandria.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236918 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 105 : Pappas of Alexandria, Synagoge, imperfect - Contains:
- Burney MS 105, ff 1r-4r : 18th-19th century notes on the text, provenance and scribe of the present volume, in Italian, English and Latin, ff 1r,…
Burney MS 105, ff 5r-226r : Pappus of Alexandria, Synagoge (TLG 2032.001). Imperfect, inc. 2.2.1, γὰρ αὐτοὺς ἐλάσσονος [sic.,…
Burney MS 105, ff 227r-240v : Diagrams relating to Books 3-4 of Pappus' Synagoge.
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- 032-002236305[0105]/040-002236918
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
240 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100189735319.0x000001 (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 240. Three unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and seven at the end. Eighteen unfoliated blank leaves after f 4 and two after f 226.
Dimensions: 335 x 230 mm.
Ruling: 210 x 115, ff 5r-9v; 235 x 120, ff 10r-112r; 240 x 120, ff 113r-225v. 30 lines per page.
Binding: 18th century binding of gold tooled black morocco.
Scribe: (ff 5r-9v) Camillus Zanettus (Repertorium 1A, no. 212).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
Francesco Barozzi (b. 1537, d. 1604), mathematician, astronomer and humanist: marginal annotations in his hand, note, f 226r.
Giacomo Contarini (b. 1536, d. 1595), owned in 1588: note of Francesco Barozzi in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 7222.
Saibante family of Verona, owned by 1732: Jeffreys 1977, pp. 256-257, no. 40.
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar. Possibly acquired by Burney at the same time as Burney MS 21, another manuscript from the Saibante library.
Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_105].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 44.
A. P. Treweek, 'Pappus of Alexandria. The Manuscript Tradition of the Collectio Mathematica', Scriptorium 11 (1957) pp. 204 (cod. Z), 220-224, 230-231.
E. M. Jeffreys, 'The Greek Manuscripts of the Saibante Collection', Studia Codicologica (TU 124), Berlin 1977, pp. 256-57 (no. 40).
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981, no. 212.
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. 65.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)