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Burney MS 128

Record Id:

040-002237009

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000b0

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 128

Title:

Apuleius, Metamorphoses

Scope & Content:

Apuleius, Metamorphoses.

Decorations:

1 large foliate initial, in colours (f. 2r). Small initials alternately red with purple flourishing, or blue with red flourishing. Paraphs alternately red or blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237009

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 128 : Apuleius, Metamorphoses

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0123]/040-002237009

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1350

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

2nd half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 325 x 225 mm (text space 230 x 140 mm in two columns).

Foliation: ff. v + 52 (ff. i-v, 48-52 are paper flyleaves).

Collation: i-v⁸ (ff. 2-41), vi⁶ (ff. 42-47).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of polished calf, c.1813.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Partly palimpsest (e.g. ff. 26r and 33r): under ultra-violet light the dates 1310 and 1311 can be read in the running heading of some pages; f. 1r starts 'Inquisitio facta p(er) …'.

Unidentified owner: with an erased ownership(?) inscription (f. 2r, upper margin); annotated in a hand of second half of the 14th century.

Unidentified owner, 1413?: inscribed 'Hunc librum emi [erasure] mag(ist)ro Bartolomeo Cartolario [sic] Anno d(omi)ni Mill(esim)o quadrigentesimo [erasure, perhaps: decimo tercio(?) die terciodecimo febr(uari)i …]' (f. 1r); annotated in a humanistic cursive hand, 15th century.

Mr Duval: his anonymous sale, 11 May 1813, lot 286, bought by Burney for £1 2s.

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.

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=1386&CollID=18&NStart=128].

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. 49.

D. S. Robertson, ‘The Manuscripts of the Metamorphoses of Apuleius’, Classical Quarterly, 18 (1924), I, pp. 27-42 and II, pp. 85-99.

J. H. Gaisser, The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass: A Study in Transmission and Reception (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008), p. 304 no. 15.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Apuleius, Lucius, Madaurensis, c 125-c 180
Duval, Jean-François-André, painter, 1776–1854