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Burney MS 143
- Record Id:
- 040-002237024
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000bf
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 143
- Title:
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Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares
- Scope & Content:
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Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ff. 1r-198v), lacking 6.1.5-6.2.3 (from spes aliqua to ne si liceat) due to the loss of a leaf after f. 59.
A few marginalia in humanistic script.
Decoration:
A space is left for one eight-line and four-line initials at the start of the books; two-line initials in bright red.
Headings in red; occasional marginal headings in pale red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237024 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 143 : Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0138]/040-002237024
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 175 mm (text space 170 x 105 mm), in 32 lines. Ruled in blind.
Foliation: ff. i + 199 + 198* (ff. i, 198* are flyleaves).
Collation: i-v10 (ff. 1-50), vi10-1 (10th leaf missing; ff. 51-59), vii-xix10 (ff. 60-189) xx10-1 (10th leaf cancelled; ff. 190-198).
Script: Written ‘above top line’ in humanistic script; Greek words probably by the main scribe.
Binding: Post-1600. Late 18th- or early 19th-century binding of straight-grained bright green morocco.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
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.
- 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.
- 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