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Burney MS 145
- Record Id:
- 040-002237026
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000c1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 145
- Title:
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Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, imperfect
- Scope & Content:
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Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, beginning imperfect at 3.11.1 ([vu]lgi sermo), ending imperfect at 15.10.2 (hornatissimum [sic]); imperfect elsewhere (ff. 1r-116v).
Decoration:
Decorated in a style typical of Florence c. 1440, with four- to seven-line gold initials with white vine-stem decoration on a red, pale green, and blue ground, with triple yellow dots (ff. 2v, 21r, 34v, 47v, 64r, 80r, 90v, 102r, 109r); similar two-line initials. Headings in pale red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237026 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 145 : Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, imperfect - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0140]/040-002237026
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1464
- End Date:
- 1464
- Date Range:
- before 1464
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 280 x 195 mm (text space 195 x 110 mm), in 32 lines. Ruled in blind.
Foliation: ff. iii + 121 (ff. i-iii, 119-121 are flyleaves; ff. 117-118 are original parchment flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-232.
Collation: Apparently originally in quires of 10 leaves each; now imperfect at the beginning, end, and elsewhere. Catchwords.
Script: Written in very regular upright humanistic script; headings to each book in capitals, others in a good cursive; possibly by a foreigner, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.
Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of lightly diced calf; the joints repaired; with traces of an earlier binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central (Rome, or Florence?).
Provenance:
Perhaps owned by John Sherwood (d. 1493), bishop of Durham: inscribed ‘Liber [rest of line erased, perhaps including ‘sacre’] / empt(us) Londoni circiter xiij kalendas januarias ao doi 1464’, below which is added in darker ink ‘quem [erasure] dedit [rest of line erased]’ (f. 118r); Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 84 has an inscription ending ‘… Quod ego Jo. Dunelmensis episcopus emi Londoniis circiter xi kalendas Januarii anno domini 1464 …’.
Inscribed in English in the 15th century with a three-line inscription, mostly lost due to large holes in the leaf (f. 1r).
Inscribed in the 17th? century ‘Rob(er)t Bryant de ffornham St Martin in com. suff.’ (f. 117r; Fornham St. Martin is a short distance north of Bury St. Edmunds).
Inscribed 'Master John Be(..)d(..)re of for[nam St ?] martin(?)' (f. 117v).
Inscribed with the names of members of the Hornigold family, including John, Henry, Robert, James, and William (ff. 29v, 37r, 39r, 56v, 74v, 88r, 91v, 93r, 94v, 106v, 114v, 117r, 117v, 118r), once with the date 1670 (f. 39r).
Inscribed by members of the Dearley/Dearsley family, including John (f. 25r, dated ‘1693’; f. 117r, dated ‘1988’ [sic]), Kathrine, William, and Thomas (f. 117r).
Inscribed 'Bordman Brignall'(?) (f. 116v).
Walter Clavell, F. R.S., elected 1704, admitted to the Inner Temple in 1700; in his sale by Heath, London, 29 March 1742, lot 80 on p. 91 of the catalogue.
Samuel Smalbroke: inscribed '‘This MS was bought by me 1742 at the Sale of Mr Clavel’s [below which is added: ficto forsan nomine] Library of Books & MSS at Exeter-Exchange [signed] S. Smalbroke’ (f. 116v); another note with his initials and the date 1742 is on f. 1r.
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, or 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=1414&CollID=18&NStart=145].
- 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:
- Bryant, Robert, of Fornham St. Martin, 17th century
Clavell, Walter, of the Inner Temple, fl. 1717-1730
Dearley, Family, 17th century
Hornigold, Family, 17th century
Sherwood, John, Bishop of Durham, d 1493
Smalbroke, Samuel, Mid 18th century
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600