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Burney MS 151

Record Id:

040-002237032

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000c7

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 151

Title:

Cicero, De Officiis, imperfect.

Scope & Content:

A humanist copy of Cicero's De Officiis left incomplete by the first scribe and continued by another scribe who left it unfinished, too.

Contents:

ff. 1r-38v. Cciero, De officiis. Left incomplete by the first scribe at 2.38 (‘esse potest’; last line of f. 35r), and continued by another scribe only as far as 2.58 (‘nec turpi’; line 5 on f. 38v).

Decoration:

Spaces left for large initials (ff. 1r, 29r) that were never executed.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237032

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 151 : Cicero, De Officiis, imperfect.

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0146]/040-002237032

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 290 x 205 mm (text space 205 x 110 mm), in 28-30 lines. Partly ruled in blind, partly in ink.

Foliation: ff. iv + 40 (ff. i-iv, 39-40 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-76.

Collation: i-iii¹⁰ (ff. 1-30), iv⁸ (ff. 31-38). Catchwords in italic script.

Script: Written partly ‘above top line’ and partly below, in humanistic script, becoming italic from f. 35v. Heavily annotated throughout in humanistic scripts, mainly in an italic that is probably by the scribe of ff. 35v-38v. An effaced inscription is perhaps a former collection number (f.1r, top centre).

Binding: Post-1600. ‘Sicily’ binding of polished calf (cf. Burney MS 134); the leaves with red speckled edges.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Unidentified owner: An effaced inscription is perhaps a former collection number (f.1r, top centre).

Perhaps in the anonymous sale of Mr Duval, Leigh and Sotheby, 11 May 1813, lot 301, bought by Burney for £1.16s.

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.

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:

Duval, Jean-François-André, painter, 1776–1854
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600