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Burney MS 134

Record Id:

040-002237015

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000b6

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 134

Title:

Censorinus, De Die Natali, Priscian, Praeexercitamina, Boethius, De Topicis Differentiis, Treatise on the year and its parts according to the Roman calendar

Scope & Content:

Censorinus, De Die Natali (ff. 1r-29v, and excerpts from the same work on ff. 48r-57r), Priscian, Praeexercitamina (ff. 30r-37r), Boethius, De Topicis Differentiis (ff. 37v-47r), Treatise on the year and its parts according to the Roman calendar (ff. 57v-59v).

Formerly bound preceding Burney MS 226, their pre-Burney pencil pagination is continuous, and the lower edge of the leaves of the Burney MS 134 has the top part of an inscription (perhaps ‘Var. Manuscript.’), the bottom part of which is on Burney MS 226.

Headings and marginal headings in pale red, including some competently written Greek; the first word of each section in pale red capitals.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237015

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 134 : Censorinus, De Die Natali, Priscian, Praeexercitamina, Boethius, De Topicis Differentiis, Treatise on the year and its parts…

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0129]/040-002237015

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Greek
Latin

Start Date:

1430

End Date:

1470

Date Range:

Mid 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 200 x 150 mm (text space 150 x 105 mm), usually 23-25 lines of text. Frame-ruled in brownish leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. iv + 63 + 47* (ff. i-iv, 60-63 are flyleaves).

Collation: i-v¹² (ff. 1-59).

Script: Humanistic with cursive features. Written 'above top line', by the scribe who also wrote Burney MS 146, Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, Antonelli MS 632 and the first gathering of Naples, BN, XI AA 49, according to A. C. de la Mare’s unpublished notes at the Bodleian Library. Frame-ruled in brownish leadpoint.

Binding: Post-1600. 19th-century Burney ‘Sicily’ binding of polished calf; flyleaves with watermark of ‘W Turner & Son’.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, N., Ferrara.

Provenance:

Sold at the anonymous ‘Sicily’ sale, Sotheby’s, 19 April 1817, lot 33, bought by Burney for 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., Ferrara.

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. 50.

Marina Passalacqua, I codici di Prisciano, Sussidi eruditi, 29 (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1978), no. 311.

Censorinus: De Die Natali liber, ed. by N. Sallmann, (Leipzig: Teubner, 1983), pp. 1-86, the present MS at p. xv, and siglum B.

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
Censorinus, Roman grammarian and writer, 3rd century
Priscian, fl 500-530,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000399133112,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/76294069

Related Archive Descriptions:

Burney MS 146
Burney MS 226