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Burney MS 147

Record Id:

040-002237028

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000c3

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 147

Title:

Cicero, De Amicitia, imperfect

Scope & Content:

Cicero, De Amicitia (imperfect); lacking most of 25-26 (from magis [catchwords id diceres, erased] to est et uoluntarium) due to the loss of a leaf after f. 16.

Following the end of the text have been added (probably in the 15th century) two lines from the rubric which often precedes the hymn Ave virgo virginum stella matutina: 'Virginis intacte cum veneris ante figuram/ Pretereundo cave ne sileatur ave' (see Walther 1959, no. 20471).

Annotated in formal and cursive humanistic scripts, sometimes in purple ink (e.g. ff. 32v-33r).

Decoration:

Decorated with a three-line blue initial with red flourishing (f. 1r); paraphs in red or blue (ff. 1r-4r).

Capitals stroked in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237028

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 147 : Cicero, De Amicitia, imperfect

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0142]/040-002237028

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 215 x 140 mm (text space 115 x 70 mm), in 16 lines. Ruled in leadpoint. Prickings in three margins.

Foliation: ff. v + 60 (ff. i-v and 56-60 are modern paper flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-108.

Collation: i¹⁶ (ff. 1-16), ii^16-1 (1st leaf missing; ff. 17-31), iii¹⁶(ff. 32-47), iv⁸ (ff. 48-55). Catchwords.

Script: Semi-humanistic, written 'above top line'.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Sicily' binding of polished brown calf (typical of manuscripts bought by Burney at Sotheby's, 19 April 1817, which included books said to have been imported from Sicily).

Flyleaves with watermark of 'W Turner & Son', dated c. 1817.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Unidentified reader, 15th century: added two lines at the end of the text.

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar; presumably acquired by him at about the time of the anonymous ‘Sicily’ sale (Sotheby’s, 19 April 1817).

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

Administrative Context:

Italy.

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=1430&CollID=18&NStart=147].

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.

Hans Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum medii aevi posterioris latinorum: Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der Versanfänge mittellateinischer Dichtungen, Carmina Medii Aevi Posterioris Latina, 1 (Göttingen: Vanderhoeck and Ruprecht, 1959), no. 20471.

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
W Turner and Son, 19th century