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Burney MS 108
- Record Id:
- 040-002236936
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000a3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100189893020.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 108
- Title:
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Military and technical treatises
- Scope & Content:
- Aelian, Tactica; Leo VI, Tactica;Heron of Alexandria, Pneumatica, De automatis.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236936 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 108 : Military and technical treatises - Contains:
- Burney MS 108, ff 1r-24v : Aelian, Tactica (TLG 0546.001), with the dedicatory preface. Included (ff 1r-1v) is a preface, inc. Πᾶσα…
Burney MS 108, ff 24v-26v : Extract from Leo VI the Wise, Tactica (2944.007), comprising Book IV, chapters 6-31. Included (ff 26r-26v) is an…
Burney MS 108, ff 27r-81v : Heron of Alexandria, Pneumatica (TLG 0559.001).Very many coloured diagrams which are very similar to those reproduced…
Burney MS 108, ff 81v-100r : Heron of Alexandria, De automatis (TLG 0559.002). Very many coloured drawings.
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- 032-002236305[0108]/040-002236936
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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100 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100189893020.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- 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. Watermark of three mountains in a circle with a cross above, similar to Briquet no. 11912 (dated 1515 to Padua).
Foliation: ff 100 (ff i-v and 104-6 are paper flyleaves)
Dimensions: 320 x 210 mm.
Ruling: 210 x 125 mm. Leroy 10D1m, 28 lines per page.
Collation: i-xiii8 (ff 1-103, including f 26*).
Binding: British Museum, 1962.
Script: Written by the same scribe as Burney 102 and 103.
Decoration: Simple red foliate headpieces (f 1r, 27r). Red initials, many with foliate penwork decoration. Numerous diagrams, many in combinations of ink drawings and yellow, blue and red, with people and/or animals.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. (Venice?)
Provenance:
Written by the same scribe as Burney 102 and 103, possibly in Venice, and originally bound together in the same volume.
Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (inscription '7952', f. iii, an original paper flyleaf, upper left corner, corresponding to his inventory number, see Morelli 1787, III, no. 7951 (‘Ordinum Militarium Distributio, Graece’): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12858, bought by Marsh for £2 17s.
Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F.S.A.: his sale, 1 February 1816, lot 975, bought by Burney.
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:
- Italy, N. (Venice?)
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_108].
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1388&CollID=18&NStart=108].
- Publications:
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J. Morelli, Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinelli, 6 vols, Venice 1787, III, no. 7951.
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, pp. 44-45.
Heronis Alexandrini opera quae supersunt omnia, ed. by Wilhelm Schmidt, 5 vols, Leipzig 1899, I, supplement, no. 5, p. 98.
C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes, 4 vols, Geneva, etc. 1907 (repr. Amsterdam 1965).
A. Dain, L'Extrait tactique tiréde Leon le Sage (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études fasc. 284), Paris 1942, pp. 53-54.
A. Dain, 'Inventaire raisonné des cents manuscrits des "Constitutions Tactiques" de Léon le Sage', Scriptorium 1 (1946-1947) pp. 33-49 (p. 48, no. 84).
The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria: A fascimile of the 1851 Woodcroft Edition, introduction by M. B. Hall, London 1971, pp. xiii, 113-15 (first published as The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria from the Original Greek, trans. and ed. by B. Woodcroft, London 1851.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 66-67.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)