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Burney MS 123

Record Id:

040-002236975

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000ab

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 123

Title:

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, De Caelesti Hierarchia, De Mystica Theologia, and Epistolae, translated into Latin, preceded by a table of contents

Scope & Content:

Works by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the Latin translation by Ambroggio Traversari.

ff. 1r-2v: Table of contents.

ff. 3r-31r: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, De Caelesti Hierarchia.

ff. 31v-67v: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, De Ecclesiastica Hierarchia.

ff. 67v-117r: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, De Divinis Nominibus.

ff. 117r-120v: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, De Mystica theologia.

ff. 120v-135v: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Epistolae 10.

ff. 120v-121v: Ad Caium Cultorem Monachum.

ff. 121v-122v: Ad Dorotheum Ministrum.

ff. 122v: Ad Sosipatrum Sacerdotem.

ff. 122v-124r: Ad Polycarpum Episcopum.

ff. 124r-130v: Ad Demophilum Monachum, de benignitate.

ff. 130v-135r: Ad Titum Pontificem, per epistolam interrogantem, quae sit sapientiae domus.

ff. 135r-135v: Ad Johannem Theologum et Apostolum et Evangelistam in Patmo insula relegatum.

f. 135v: 'Expliciunt decem epistole Dionisii Areopagite' 'Meminit se scripsisse que secuntur nominatim, que periere: De divinis himnis. De intelectualibus et sensibilibus. De theologica informatione. De anima. De significativa theologia. De legali hierarchia. De angelicis proprietatibus et ordinibus. De justo divinoque judicio. Laus deo.'

Decoration: 1 large white vine initial, in colours and gold, with three-sided border incorporating arms. Small initials in gold on a ground of red, blue, and green, or in plain blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236975

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 123 : Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, De Caelesti Hierarchia, De Mystica Theologia, and Epistolae, translated into Latin, preceded by…

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0118]/040-002236975

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1455

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

c. 1460-1469

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 270 x 185 mm (text space 165 x 95 mm).

Foliation: ff. v + 136 + 135*-135**, 136* (ff. i-iv, 135* and 136* are paper flyleaves; f. 136 is Burney's list of contents).

Collation: i²⁺¹ (1st leaf inserted, ff. v, 1-2), ii-xiv¹⁰ (ff. 3-132), xv⁴ (ff. 133-136).

Script: Humanistic, written 'below top line', with vertical catchwords; and (ff. 1r-2v) added Humanistic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Sicily' binding of polished brown calf (typical of manuscripts bought by Burney at Sotheby's, 19 April 1817, which included books said to have been imported from Sicily); edges gauffered and gilt; rebacked.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central or S. (Urbino? or Rome?).

Provenance:

Federico da Montefeltro (b. 1422, d. 1482), before he became Duke of Urbino in August 1474: his arms: bendy or and argent, in chief of the first an eagle sable, beaked, membered, and crowned or (f. 3r; as, for example, in Vatican Library, Urb. lat. 224, for which see Alexander 1994, col. pl. on p. 139).

Bartolomeo di Giampiero Fonzio (della Fonte), (b. c. 1446, d. 1513), his annotations (see de la Mare 1985).

Unidentified owner, last quarter of the 15th century(?): with an ownership(?) inscription 'Librarie(?) …' (f. 3r, upper margin, erased).

Unidentified owner, 16th century(?): with an ownership(?) inscription '…ria(?) ferrarie(?)' (f. 1r, upper margin, erased).

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.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1563&CollID=18&NStart=123].

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 48.

Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), p. 18 no. 269.

Albinia de la Mare, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', in Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed. by Annarosa Garzelli, 2 vols, ([Florence]: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), I, pp. 395-574 (p. 488).

The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination, 1450-1550, ed. by Jonathan J. G. Alexander (Munich: Prestel, 1994), col. pl. on p. 139.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Fonzio, Bartolomeo, scribe, c 1446-1513
Montefeltro, Federico, Duke of Urbino in August 1474, 1422-1482
Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite, before 532,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121463424