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Burney MS 130
- Record Id:
- 040-002237011
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000b2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 130
- Title:
- Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
- Scope & Content:
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Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae.
Decoration:
Decorated in gold and colours with a seven-line historiated initial depicting a half-length male figure (Boethius?) pointing to the book he holds, with a three-sided foliate border incorporating an escutcheon with arms (f. 3r); 2 large puzzle initials in red and blue, with penwork flourishing in red and pink (ff. 30, 39v, with shell gold on f. 39v). Small initials alternately red with pink penwork flourishing, or blue with red penwork flourishing. Capitals stroked in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237011 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 130 : Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0125]/040-002237011
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 180 mm (text space 180 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. iii + 51 (ff. i-iii, 49-51 are modern flyleaves; ff. 1 and 48 are former pastedowns).
Collation: two flyleaves (ff. 1-2), i-iv10 (ff. 3-42), v6 (ff. 43-48). Catchwords.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of blind-tooled lightly diced calf over heavy pasteboards; endleaves with watermark 'E&P' (?); rebacked in 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. E.(?) (Verona?).
Provenance:
A member of the Lando family of Verona: with their arms, quarterly sable and argent, a bend or (f. 3r; cf. Rietstap 1950, 16, under 'Lando', and Morando di Custoza 1976, no. 1388).
Silvestro de Lando/Landis, 15th century: inscribed 'Liber Silvestri de Landis' (f. 48v); similar inscriptions occur in Harley MS 2468, written in Modena in 1422, and Vatican, BAV, Reg. lat. 1708.
Unidentified owner: inscribed '42' (f. 47v).
Federico Ceruti of Verona (b. 1531, d. 1611): inscribed 'Emi Ex. Bibliotheca Frid. Ceruti Verons. Patauij / Ioh. P[effaced]e 1629' (f. 2r), and with his monogram 'FC' (f. 47v); on the manuscripts in his library see Tomasini 1650, pp. 98-99, listing copies of Boethius on p. 98.
Unidentified owner, 17th century: inscribed '(2)' (f. 2r).
? Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: perhaps his sale, 6 April 1807, lot 1128, 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, N. E.(?) (Verona?).
- 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=1564&CollID=18&NStart=130].
- Publications:
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Giacomo Filippo Tomasini, Bibliothecae Venetae manuscriptae publicae et privatae (Utini: Typis Nicolai Schiratti, 1650), pp. 98-99.
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.
J. B. Rietstap, Armorial général, 4 vols (Lyon: Société de Sauvegarde historique, 1950), III, 16, under 'Lando'.
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 ‘Bur’).
Eugenio Morando di Custoza, Armoriale veronese (Verona: [n. pub.], 1976), no. 1388.
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, p. 129.
- 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
Ceruti, Federico, of Verona, 1531-1611
Lando, Family
Sebright, John Saunders, 7th Baronet, politician and agriculturalist, 1767-1846
Silvestro, de Lando/Landis, 15th century