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Burney MS 142

Record Id:

040-002237023

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000be

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 142

Title:

Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares

Scope & Content:

Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ff. 1r-229v).

Decoration:

17 large white vine initials, in colours and gold, at the beginning of each division (ff. 1r, 15r, 25v, 38v, 50v, 66v, 80v, 94v, 101r, 123r, 143r, 156r, 172v, 191v, 200r, 206v, 220v); the first with matching three-sided borders incorporating putti and a partially erased escutcheon, with the arms: bendy of six pieces, argent and sable, an eye(?) sable on a chief or (not found in the files of Sir G. F. Hill, Add. MS 46814), the arms flanked by the initials ‘V B’ (f. 1r). Small initials in plain blue. Perhaps by the same artist as Burney MS 168; this manuscript was made for the same patron. Headings in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237023

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 142 : Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0137]/040-002237023

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 260 x 170 mm (text space 160 x 95 mm), in 30 lines. Ruled in blind. Prickings in three margins.

Foliation: ff. v + 231 (ff. i-iv and 230-231 are flyleaves).

Collation: i-xxii¹⁰ (ff. 1-220), xxiii^10-1 (last leaf missing, probably blank; ff. 221-229). Vertical catchwords (Derolez type 5). At least three sets of leaf-signatures, one set in red ink.

Script: Written 'above top line', in a cursive humanistic script.

Binding: Post-1600. Late 18th-century binding of pale polished calf, the joints renewed; under the usual 'Codex / Burneianus' gilt stamp on the upper cover is visible an older stamp: 'Ex Bibliotheca / Caroli Burneii S.T.P.' (cf. Burney MSS 150, 168, 177, 208); the edges of the leaves tooled and gilt, with a trace of a title on the lower edge.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).

Provenance:

Owned by the same unidentified person as Burney 168, with his arms and initials ‘V B’ (f. 1r).

Annotated extensively by 15th-century readers, one of whom states ‘In recentioribus codicibus …’, ‘In aliis codicibus …’, ‘In aliis exemplaribus …’ etc. (ff. 2r, 191v, 199v), and ‘Ciceronis epistolę nup(er) recognitę diligent(er)q(ae) emendatę Anno d(omi)ni m(…)ii(?) te(r)tio calendas Septembris .o.l.p.’ (f. 229v).

Erased inscriptions on f. 1r and f. 229v, the latter including five lines in capitals, the first line beginning ‘Teaos’ (sic) and the fourth line starting ‘responsa’.

Unidentified owner: inscribed with interlinear astrological symbols (f. 1r, above the words 'officio', 'pietate', and 'meritorum').

Unidentified English owner, 17th century: inscribed '£1-15-0' (f. 229v; cf. Burney MSS 150, 168, 177, 208, 245; and see below).

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar: apparently acquired as part of a group with Burney MSS 150, 168, 177, and 208: their front covers all have 'Ex Bibliotheca / Caroli Burneii S.T.P.' blind-stamped underneath the British Museum's 'Codex / Burneianus' gilt stamp; apparently also formerly in the same library as Burney MSS 165 and 277, which have foliation by the same hand as in Burney MSS 150 and 208.

Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.

Administrative Context:

Italy, Central (Florence).

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=1443&CollID=18&NStart=142].

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. 51.

Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), no. 271.

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 168