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Burney MS 150
- Record Id:
- 040-002237031
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000c6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 150
- Title:
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Cicero, De Officiis; with a phrase from Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae
- Scope & Content:
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Cicero, De Officiis (ff. 1r-60r); followed by short excerpts from the main text (f. 60r), written by a different hand; inscribed in capitals with a phrase from Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae 1.4 (Virtus clara aeternaque habetur), and an alphabet.(f. 60v).
Decoration:
Decorated with a five-line initial on a gold ground, with foliate marginal extensions (f. 1r); two-line initials alternately red with purple flourishing, or blue with red flourishing.
Headings and marginal headings in two shades of pale red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237031 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 150 : Cicero, De Officiis; with a phrase from Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0145]/040-002237031
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 265 x 190 mm (text space 175 x 120 mm), in 23 lines. Ruled in leadpoint.
Foliation: ff. iv + 64 (ff. i-iv and 61-64 are flyleaves; the first and last flyleaves are now transposed and upside down). Foliated in Italy in Arabic numerals, 18th century, by the same hand as in Burney MSS 165, 208, 277.
Collation: i-vii8 (ff. 1-56), viii4 (ff. 57-60). Traces of long catchwords (e.g. f. 40v). Leaf signatures.
Script: Written ‘above top line’ in cursive humanistic script.
Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of brown leather. Under the gilt Burney stamp on the upper cover is the older stamp ‘Ex Bibliotheca / Caroli Burneii S.T.P.’ (cf. Burney MSS 142, 168, 177, 208).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N.
Provenance:
Unidentified humanistic owners, 15th century: with extensive marginal annotations by several hands, including one using pink ink.
Unidentified owner: with an erased ownership(?) mark (f. 1r, lower margin; the upper margin with the offset of a title from a former flyleaf).
Unidentified English owner, 17th century: inscribed '£1-0-0', (f. 60v, top right corner; cf. Burney MSS 142, 165, 168, 177, and 208).
Unidentified Italian owner, 18th century: with his ink foliation.
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar: perhaps acquired as part of a group with Burney MSS 142, 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 142 and 208.
Purchased for the British Museum from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy, N.
- 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=1561&CollID=18&NStart=150].
- 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:
- Sallustius Crispus, Caius, 86BC-c 35BC
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600