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Burney MS 131

Record Id:

040-002237012

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000b3

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 131

Title:

Nicholas Trevet, Commentary on Boethius' De consolatione Philosophiae

Scope & Content:

ff. 1-79v. Nicholas Trevet: Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae.

f. 1r Inc. 'Explicationem librorum Boetii de consolacione philosophica...'

f. 79v. Expl.: 'Amen. Et sic terminatur liber quintus continens prosas sex et metra quinque. Et sunt universaliter in libro toto prose 93 et metra totidem. Laus tibi Christe quoniam liber explicit iste.'

Decoration: 5 diagrams (ff. 5v, 7v, 13v, 19v, 58v). 5 large initials in blue, with elaborate predominantly red (with some blue) penwork infill and flourishing, forming partial borders (ff. 1r, 18v, 30r, 50r, 67r). Small initials alternately red with blue flourishing, or vice versa. Paraphs alternately blue or red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237012

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 131 : Nicholas Trevet, Commentary on Boethius' De consolatione Philosophiae

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0126]/040-002237012

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: 270 x 205 mm (text space 220 x 155 mm in two columns).

Foliation: ff. iv + 83 (ff. i-iv, 81-83 are flyleaves; f. 80 is Burney's table of contents).

Collation: i-v¹⁰ (ff. 1-50), vi^10-1 (last leaf cancelled; 51-59), vii-viii¹⁰ (ff. 60-79).

Script: Gothic. Catchwords.

Much damaged by purple mould at the beginning and end, hence the bifolia of the first and last quires are now split into singletons.

Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1965.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, N.(?).

Provenance: Occasional added marginalia and manicula, but no other marks of provenance.

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=1413&CollID=18&NStart=131].

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.

Th. Kaeppeli: Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, II (I-S) (Rome 1980), pp. 191-93. num 3143.

M. T. Gibson and Lesley Smith (eds)., Codices Boethiani: a conspectus of manuscripts of the works of Boethius, I (London, 1995), p. 14.

E. T. Silk (ed.), Expositio Fratris Nicolai Trevethi Anglici Ordinis Praedicatorvm Super Boetio De Consolatione, 2012 [http://campuspress.yale.edu/trevet/]

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Trevet [Trivet], Nicholas, c 1258-c 1334,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000457709416,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/64000382