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Burney MS 139

Record Id:

040-002237020

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000bb

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 139

Title:

Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares

Scope & Content:

Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ff. 1r-226r).

Marginalia in humanistic script, often with side-lining in the form of a triple dot above a slightly curved line; sporadic corrections, marginal headings, and other annotations; Greek (or spaces for Greek) usually marked in the margin with a ‘.G.’ and accompanied by a Latin gloss.

Decoration:

1 large white vine initial, in colours and gold, incorporating aN eagle(?), owl, butterfly, and thistle (f. 1r). 15 smaller white vine initials, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the remaining books (ff. 15r, 26v, 40r, etc.).

The initials are similar to some of those in manuscripts made for Poggio Bracciolini probably while he was in Rome, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Small initials in plain blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237020

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 139 : Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0134]/040-002237020

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Greek
Latin

Start Date:

1425

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 275 x 190 mm (text space 160 x 100 mm in two columns of 30 lines). Ruled in leadpoint for tops and bottoms of minims.

Foliation: ff. iv + 230 (ff. i-iv and 227-230 are flyleaves).

Collation: i-xi¹⁰ (ff. 1-110), xii¹⁰⁺¹ (2nd leaf inserted; ff. 111-121), xiii-xxii¹⁰ (ff. 122-221), xxiii^6-1 (ff. 222-226).

Script: Humanistic, with gothic and cursive features. Spaces for Greek usually left blank, but occasionally filled by an inexpert hand.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of polished calf; rebacked 1939.

f. iii recto watermarked ‘Ruse & Turners / 1807’ (cf. Burney MSS 180, 236, etc.).

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central? (Rome?).

Provenance:

Perhaps made for Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459), according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Unidentified Italian owners, middle of the 15th century: marginal annotations by two main hands in humanistic script, one supplying Latin words adjacent to spaces left for Greek words, the other including notes on variant readings.

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, Central? (Rome?).

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=1451&CollID=18&NStart=139.]

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:

Bracciolini, Poggio, scholar and humanist, 1380-1459,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19722038
Ruse and Turners, publishers, Kent, 19th century
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600