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Burney MS 135
- Record Id:
- 040-002237016
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000b7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 135
- Title:
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Cicero, De Amicitia, Paradoxa Stoicorum, De Senectute (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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Cicero, De Amicitia (ff. 1r-28r), Paradoxa Stoicorum (ff. 28v-41r), De Senectute (ff. 41v-60v) (ends imperfect in 18 at honestissimum).
Infrequent annotations and corrections in humanistic script. There is an erasure in the lower margin of f. 1r.
Headings in red capitals; spaces left for large initials.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237016 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 135 : Cicero, De Amicitia, Paradoxa Stoicorum, De Senectute (imperfect) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0130]/040-002237016
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 135 mm (text space 130 x 73 mm), in 27 lines. Ruled in pink-brown ink.
Foliation: ff. iv + 63 (ff. i-iv, 61-63 are flyleaves).
Collation: i-vi10 (ff. 1-60). Vertical catchwords, written upwards (Derolez type 8).
Script: Humanistic, written 'below top line'.
Binding: Post-1600. ‘Sicily’ binding (circa 1817; cf. Burney MS 134) of polished calf; flyleaves with watermark of ‘W Turner & Son’; the first and last leaves with rust-stains: evidence of a former binding with metal fittings at the four corners.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
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.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy.
- 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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600