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Burney MS 152

Record Id:

040-002237033

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000c8

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 152

Title:

Cicero, De Officiis

Scope & Content:

A humanist copy of Cicero's De officiis from 1468.

Contents:

ff. 1r-100r: Cicero, De Officiis with spaces left for rubrics and for large initials at the start of each book (ff. 1r, 43r, 68r) which were left uncompleted. Annotated in Humanistic hands, sometimes in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237033

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 152 : Cicero, De Officiis

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0147]/040-002237033

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1468

End Date:

1468

Date Range:

1468

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 200 x 145 mm (text space 120 x 90 mm), in 21 lines. Ruled in pale brown ink.

Foliation: ff. ii + 104 (ff. i-ii, 103-104 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-199.

Collation: i-ix¹⁰ (ff. 1-90), x¹² (ff. 91-102).

Script: Written ‘above top line’ in humanistic script; by a named scribe: ‘Explicit [...] p(er) me Simone(m) de binuratiis [or brunatiis?] [...] a(n)no. 1468. 1468. [sic]’ (f. 100r), (see Colophons 1982, no. 17198, and Bradley 1887, p. 175).

Binding: Post-1600. 18th(?)-century binding of plain parchment over pasteboards.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Inscribed ‘Franc’ Amadj’ above ‘.C. .P.’, 15th- or 16th century (f. 1r, lower margin).

Owned by Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785), (see Morelli, Bibliotheca (1787), no. 7927); his library bought en bloc by the bookseller James Edwards

James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), bookseller of London, sold by him in London, 2 March 1789, lot 12833, bought by the bookseller Molini for £1.4s.

Molini, Charles Frederick (b. 1789, d. 1860), bookseller, sold at his sale at Sotheby’s, 27 June 1811, lot 227, bought by [Richard] Heber for 6s.

Richard Heber (b. 1773, d. 1833), book collector.

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:

Iacobo Morelli, Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 356 no. 7927.

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.

John W. Bradley, A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, p. 175.

Bénédictins du Bouveret, Colophons de manuscrits occidentaux des origines au XVIe siècle, 6 vols (Fribourg: Éditions universitaires, 1965-1982), V, p. 315, no. 17 198.

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 495.

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 134.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Edwards, James, bookseller of London, 1756-1816
Heber, Richard, book collector, 1773-1833
Molini, Charles Frederick, bookseller, 1789-1860
Pinelli, Maffeo, of Venice, book-collector, 1736-1785
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600