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Burney MS 138
- Record Id:
- 040-002237019
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000ba
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 138
- Title:
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Cicero, De Amicitia, De Senectute, Paradoxa Stoicorum
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 2-30v. De amicitia. Tit. M. T. C. de amicicia ad Acticum [sic].
ff. 31-58v. De senectute. Tit. M. T. C. de senectute ad T. Athicum. [sic]
ff. 59-72. Paradoxa. Tit. M. T. Ciceronis ad Brutum.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237019 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 138 : Cicero, De Amicitia, De Senectute, Paradoxa Stoicorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0133]/040-002237019
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1445
- End Date:
- 1465
- Date Range:
- c. 1450-1460
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 195 x 130 mm (text space 115 x 75 mm), in 25 lines. Ruled in blind (Derolez type 32).
Foliation: ff. ii + 75 (ff. i-ii, 1, and 73-75 are flyleaves).
Collation: i-vi10 (ff. 2-61), vii10+1 (last leaf inserted; ff. 62-72).
Script: Humanistic, written 'above top line'. Quire-signatures, .A.-.F., with the same letter usually on the facing recto; leaf signatures; no catchwords. Possibly written by 'Franciscus presbiter Florentia oriundus', between 1450 and 1460, who also wrote Burney MS 248, and who signed Besançon MS 166 in 1457 (cf. de la Mare 1985, p. 494).
Offsets in the lower margins of ff. 42r and 43r were caused by the blue initials at the top of ff. 32r and 36r.
Decoration: Decorated with three large initials in gold, with white vine-stems, on a ground of blue, pale green, and pink (ff. 2r, 31r, 59r), the first with matching white vine-stem ornament in the lower margin, surrounding a gold roundel intended for an escutcheon; small initials in plain blue (ff. 3v, 32r, 36r, 39r, 43r, 52r, 60r, 62v, 64r, 66r, 68r, 71r). Headings in pale red, usually in capitals.
Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of polished calf; the joints repaired. The final page has an offset of border decoration in the lower right corner, suggesting that another text was once bound at the end of the volume; but this page also has rust-stains and worm-holes which suggest that this was the last leaf in a previous binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).
Provenance: Robert Flemmyng (b. 1416, d. 1483), ecclesiastic and humanist: with his annotations (cf. de la Mare 1980, pp. 93-101).
Lincoln College, Oxford, 1474: identifiable by the secundo folio as no. 66 in the College inventory (cf. Weiss 1937, p. 349).
John Stone, 16th century: inscribed 'liber Joha(n)nis Stonus clerici', followed by an erasure (f. 2r, in the border roundel).
William Somerscales (or Somerseales?), 17th century: inscribed 'p(ro) me Will(ia)m Somers(c)ales'(?), written over an erasure (f. 2r).
Unidentified owner, 18th century: inscribed 'Herodotus λ.κ.α.' (ff. 2r, 6r).
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.
Purchased for the British Museum from Charles Parr Burney, son of Charles Burney, D.D., 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=1440&CollID=18&NStart=138].
- Publications:
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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.
R. Weiss, 'The Earliest Catalogues of the Library of Lincoln College', Bodleian Quarterly Review, 8, no. 14 (1937), pp. 342-59 (p. 349).
A. C. de la Mare, 'Humanistic Hands in England' in Manuscripts at Oxford: an Exhibition in Memory of Richard William Hunt, ed. by A. C. de la Mare and B. C. Barker-Benfield (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1980), pp. 93-101 (p. 98, especially no. XXII.5 and figs. 6-9).
A. C. de la Mare, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', in Minatura fiorentina del rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed. by A. Garzelli and A. C. de la Mare, Inventari e cataloghi toscani, 18-19, 2 vols ([Florence]: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), I, pp. 395-421 (p. 494).
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: Supplement to the Second Edition, ed. by A. G. Watson, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 15 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1987), pp. 55, 107.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Flemmyng, Robert, ecclesiastic and humanist, 1416-1483
Franciscus, presbiter, scribe, fl 1455
Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Somerscales, William, 17th century
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600