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Burney MS 129

Record Id:

040-002237010

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000b1

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 129

Title:

Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae

Scope & Content:

Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, with Italian interlinear glosses.

Decoration:

5 large puzzle initials in red and blue, with red and blue, or brown, penwork (ff. 1r, 8v, 19r, 34v, 48r), the first partly filled-in with a thin shell gold wash. Small initials in red or blue, sometimes with blue or brown penwork.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237010

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 129 : Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0124]/040-002237010

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Italian
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: 265 x 170 mm (text space 190 x 100 mm).

Prickings: at the upper and fore-edge.

Foliation: ff. iv + 60 (ff. i-iv, 57-60 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-112.

Collation: i-vii⁸ (ff. 1-56). Catchwords.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of diced polished calf; the joints repaired. Flyleaves with watermark of 'W Turner & Son'.

Secundo folio: '[re]li(n)quite. Hiis'.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, N.(?)

Provenance:

Unidentified owner, second half of the 14th century or 15th century: inscribed 'Francischini de amicinis', added to 'Explicit liber Bouetij [sic]' (f. 56v).

Unidentified owner, Lugliano, Bagni di Lucca ?, second half of the 14th century or 15th century: inscribed ‘Iste liber est [ …]e de logliano. Et qui m[…] […]a sancti blasi […] franceschin[…]' (f. 56v).

? Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (b.1754, d.1838), Prince of Benevento, Bishop of Autun, and French minister and ambassador: perhaps in his sale, 8 May 1816, lot 3453, bought by Burney for £1 10s. 6d.

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.(?)

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=1560&CollID=18&NStart=129].

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.

Barnet Kottler, 'The Vulgate Tradition of the "Consolatio Philosophiae" in the Fourteenth Century', Medieval Studies, 17 (1955), 209-14 (p. 210 n. 3; this manuscript as ‘Bu’).

Codices Boethiani: A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius, ed. by M. T. Gibson and Lesley Smith, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, 25 (London: Warburg Institute, 1995- ), I: Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, 128-29.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, c 480-524/525,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122834442,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100218964
Périgord, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-, Prince of Benevento, 1754-1838