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Burney MS 149

Record Id:

040-002237030

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000c5

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 149

Title:

Cicero, De Officiis; an added quotation from Varro, De Lingua Latina

Scope & Content:

Cicero, De Officiis (ff. 2r-92r); followed by an added quotation from Varro, De Lingua Latina, 9.47 (f. 93v).

Occasionally annotated in humanistic script by contemporary readers.

Decoration:

Decorated with fine seven- or eight-line gold initials with white vine-stem decoration on a ground of blue, red, green, and gold (ff. 2r, 40v, 63v), the first with extensions equal to the full height of the text; one two-line initial in plain blue (4v).

Headings to each book in pale red capitals.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237030

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 149 : Cicero, De Officiis; an added quotation from Varro, De Lingua Latina

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0144]/040-002237030

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1430

End Date:

1470

Date Range:

Mid 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment. Flyleaves with watermark of ‘W Turner and Son’.

Dimensions: 265 x 175 mm (text space 175 x 110 mm), in 24 lines. Ruled in blind.

Foliation: ff. iv + 97 + 1* (ff. i-iv and 94-97 are paper flyleaves; ff. 1-1* are original parchment). Burney pagination 1-181.

Collation: i⁸ (ff. 2-9), ii-ix¹⁰ (ff. 10-89), x⁴ (ff. 90-93). Catchwords.

Script: Written ‘above top line’, in very neat upright humanistic script. The script comparable to that of Additional MS 11994, and close to that of ‘Angelus’ and Pietro Ursuleo, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of brown leather; gauffered and gilt.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, S. (Naples).

Provenance:

Unidentified humanistic owners, third quarter of the 15th century?: the margins with annotations and alternate readings by two hands, the second sometimes erasing or replacing those of the first (e.g., f. 29r).

Inscribed 'Ieronimi venti', second half of the 15th century (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, S. (Naples).

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=1566&CollID=18&NStart=149].

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), p. 19 no. 272.

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
Ursuleo, Pietro, Italian scribe, Mid 15th century
Varro, Marcus Terentius, 116-27 BC,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121452047
W Turner and Son, 19th century

Related Archive Descriptions:

Add MS 11994