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Burney MS 137

Record Id:

040-002237018

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000b9

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 137

Title:

Cicero, De Amicitia, De Officiis, Paradoxa Stoicorum, and other texts

Scope & Content:

Cicero, De Amicitia (ff. 1r-12v); De Officiis, with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses (ff. 14r-52v); Paradoxa Stoicorum, with marginal and interlinear glosses, f. 55v blank except for ‘ibi n(ullus) e(st) defect(us)’ (ff. 53r-58v); six six-line epitaphs of Cicero, inc. Hic iacet Aprinas manibus tumultatus amici (ff. 58v-59r); a short anonymous comedy, inc. Vere illos laudandos puto, qui videndorum gratia prodigiorum diversas oras peragrarunt (ff. 59v-60r); a brief alphabetical vocabulary, inc. Apprime, Admodum: valde (ff. 60r-60v); and Arbor rhetorice nove, inc. Tria sunt genera causarum scilicet deliberativum demonstrativum iudiciale (ff. 58v-61v), (cf. Rhetorica ad Herennium, 1.2.2).

Formerly bound with Burney MSS 265, 272, and 352.

Decoration:

Decorated with red initials, some with simple brown ink flourishing.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237018

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 137 : Cicero, De Amicitia, De Officiis, Paradoxa Stoicorum, and other texts

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0132]/040-002237018

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1468

End Date:

1478

Date Range:

c 1473

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 295 x 215 mm (text space 210 x 130-150 mm), usually in 40-45 lines. Ff. 1r-12v ruled in brown ‘crayon’, thereafter in blind.

Foliation: ff. iii + 64 (ff. i-iii, 62-64 are flyleaves).

Collation: uncertain, but perhaps i¹²⁺¹ (12th leaf added, a former flyleaf; ff. 1-13), ii-v¹² (ff. 14-61). Traces of catchwords.

Script: Cursive gothic; written by several scribes, in part by 'Bolfgangus'(?) in 1473 (f. 60r); spaces for Greek left blank.

Binding: Post-1600. Early 19th-century Burney binding of polished diced calf.

Custodial History:

Origin: Germany.

Provenance:

An (ownership?) inscription in the upper margin of f. 12v is torn away; the last several leaves of De Amicitia have water-damage, rust marks, and worm-holes, all of which suggest this it was the final text in a former binding.

Sold at Christie’s, 1 May 1804, lot 69 (bound with Burney MSS 265, 272, 352, when the order of texts was: Vergil, Cicero, Terence, Valla; and when ff. 1r-13r were probably not present) bought by Burney.

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:

Germany.

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

Related Archive Descriptions:

Burney MS 265
Burney MS 272
Burney MS 352