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Burney MS 136

Record Id:

040-002237017

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000b8

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 136

Title:

Cicero, Selected Philosophical Works

Scope & Content:

Includes added list of twelve ‘Notabilia in Tullio De Amicitia’ (f. 1v), Cicero, De Amicitia, with marginal and interlinear glosses (for the first gloss see Olsen 1982, p. 115, no. 46a) (ff. 3r-31v), excerpts from the Paradoxa Stoicorum (see Olsen 1982, p. 116 no. 83) (ff. 32r-33v); lists of names of the nine Muses and twelve winds, inc. Sciendum est, quod novem sunt muse a poetis (ff. 33v-34r); argument of the Paradoxa Stoicorum (ff. 34r-34v); six lines of heroic verse on lavishness and frugality, inc. Prodigus, ut lango, sic parcus distat avaro (f. 34v), Paradoxa Stoicorum, with marginal and interlinear glosses (mainly on f. 35r), perhaps by the scribe of f. 1v (ff. 35r-46v).

Decoration:

1 large initial in red, with brown in red ink infill and flourishing (f. 3r). Small initials in plain red; blank spaces left for others, with guide-letters. Capitals stroked in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237017

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 136 : Cicero, Selected Philosophical Works

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0131]/040-002237017

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 230 x 155 mm (text space 150 x 90 mm), in 20 lines. Ruled in brown ‘crayon’.

Foliation: ff. iii + 50 + 46* (ff. i-iii and 48-50 are flyleaves).

Collation: i² (ff. 1-2), ii-iii¹² (ff. 3-26), iv¹⁰ (ff. 27-36), v¹² (ff. 37-47).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Late 18th-century binding of dark brown morocco, the covers framed by a gilt roll, the turn-ins with a gilt Greek key pattern; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Jean Lebègue (b. 1368, d. 1457), Parisian humanist: with his near-anagrams 'A Bele Viegne' (f. 31v), 'He Bien Alegue' followed by his paraph mark (f. 46v; cf. Hallaire 1954, pp. 291-2, pl. 32d), his cipher 'V363A13' (f. 1r; cf. Hallaire, op. cit, pl. 32e), and with his marginal annotations (e.g. ff. 11v, 15v, 35v).

Unidentified owners, 15th century or 16th century: with various notes, partly erased, some in Hebrew, others in Italian: '(…)hita del[…] […]gio(?) […]' and '[…] de Assiani(?)', f. 47v); and a price/valuation(?): 'viij s.' (f. 47v).

Unidentified owners, 18th century?: inscribed by different hands ‘363’, ‘113’ or ‘A13’, and ‘M114’ (f. 1r).

Count Justin MacCarthy-Reagh (b. 1744, d. 1811); his sale, by De Bure, Paris (catalogue: 1815; sale: Jan. 1817), lot 2302; inscribed in pencil ‘2302’ (f. i verso).

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.

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=1429&CollID=18&NStart=136].

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.

Elisabeth Hallaire, 'Quelques manuscrits de Jean Le Bègue', Scriptorium, 8 (1954), pp. 291-2 and pls 32d-f.

B. Munk Olsen, L’étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), I (1982), p. 115 no. 46a, and p. 116 no. 83.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Lebègue, Jean, Parisian humanist, 1368-1457
MacCarthy-Reagh, Justin, Count, 1744-1811
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600