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Burney MS 111
- Record Id:
- 040-002236953
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000a6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100189893152.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 111
- Title:
- Ptolemy, Geographia (TLG 0363.009)
- Scope & Content:
- Ptolemy, Geographia (TLG 0363.009), ff 3r-114r. Many diagrams and coloured maps. Preceded on f 2v by four epigrams on the Geography by Maximus Planudes, and followed on f 114r by heroic verses on the poem, inc. Ἐν γραμμαῖς τὸν κόσμον ἀριθμηθέντα νόησον.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236953 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 111 : Ptolemy, Geographia (TLG 0363.009) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0111]/040-002236953
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
114 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100189893152.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff 114. Two unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and three at the end.
Dimensions: 435 x 310 mm.
Ruling: 330 x 225 mm. Leroy 12E2 (with each column further divided by three vertical lines), 43 lines per page.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1913, with 18th century brown tooled leather covers with a central lozenge (Talleyrand's binding?) pasted inside; marbled endpaper.
Decoration: 66 coloured maps (ff 1v, 15r, 15v-16r, 2 x 16v, 20v-21r, 21v, 24r, 24v, 26r, 28r, 3 x 28v, 33v-34r, 2 x 34v, 2 x 38r, 2 x 38v, 2 x 43r, 2 x 43v, 47r, 47v, 51r, 51v-52r, 52r, 52v-53r, 57v-58r, 61r, 61v-62r, 62v, 65r, 65v, 68r, 68v, 2 x 71r, 71v, 74r, 74v, 2 x 77r, 77v-78r, 80r, 80v, 2 x 82r, 82v, 85v-86r, 2 x 86v, 2 x 89r, 89v-90r, 90v, 92r, 92v, 93r, 97v-98r, 101v-102r, 102v, 105v-106r: all except that on f. 1v are later fifteenth-century replacements on inserted leaves).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (b. 1754, d. 1838), Prince of Benevento, Bishop of Autun, and French minister and ambassador: his sale 8 May 1816, lot 3463, bought by Burney for £66 3s.
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:
- Eastern Mediterranean.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_111].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 45.
Catalogue of Manuscript Maps, Charts and Plans, and of the Topographical Drawings in the British Museum, London 1844-1861, I, pp. 3-5.
J. Fischer, Claudii Ptolemaei Geographiae Codex Urbinas Graecus 82 (Codices e Vaticanis selecti 19), Vatican 1932, I, pp. 211, 289, 315, 530; II, pl. B2.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 68.
Renate Burri, Die 'Geographie' des Ptolemaios im Spiegel der griechischen Handschriften (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 110), Berlin 2013, pp. 276-91.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)