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Burney MS 154

Record Id:

040-002237035

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000ca

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 154

Title:

Cicero, Philippics, imperfect

Scope & Content:

Cicero, Philippics, omitting 5.12-6.6 (from legatorum mentionem to nunquam vidi at f. 57v line 12) (ff. 1r-122v).

Decoration:

Decorated with initials in gold with white vine-stem ornament on a deep blue ground (ff. 1r, 10r, 37r, 46v, 50r, 58r, 63v, 70v, 74v, 81r, 91v, 99v, 113r), the lower margin of the first page with similar ornament enclosing an escutcheon with the Gonzaga arms (as in Burney MS 153; see Meroni 1966, p. 37 no. 5).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237035

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 154 : Cicero, Philippics, imperfect

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0149]/040-002237035

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1425

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 250 x 165 mm (text space 165 x 100 mm), in 24 lines. Ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. iii + 125 (ff. i-iii and 125 are Askew flyleaves, ff. 123-124 are original flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-241.

Collation: i-xv⁸ (ff. 1-120), xvi^4-1 (4th leaf cancelled; ff. 121-123), followed by a medieval flyleaf.

Script: Written ‘below top line’ in humanistic script; spaces left for rubrics.

Binding: Post-1600. Typical Askew binding of diced polished brown leather, with the usual ‘palmette and fleur-de-lis’ gilt roll, marbled endpapers and parchment flyleaves; edges gilt (cf. Burney MS 144).

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central? (Florence?).

Provenance:

A member of the Gonzaga family after 1433: with the family's arms as used between 1433 and 1530 (f. 1r); foliated and inscribed 'scrite 122', 15th century (f. 123r; cf. Burney MS 159, also with the Gonzaga arms).

? Mario Maffei (b. 1463, d. 1537): inscribed 'No. 325.', 18th century (f. 1r; cf. Burney MSS 144 and 160, both of which are Maffei manuscripts).

Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: bound for him; his sale at Leigh and Sotheby's, 7 March 1785, lot 449 (the catalogue states ‘olim Maffeianus’), bought by Marsh for £3.

Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F.S.A.; his sale, Christie’s, 1 February 1816, lot 979.

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, Central? (Florence?).

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=1445&CollID=18&NStart=154].

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), pp. 52-3.

Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico de Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), no. 273.

Mostra dei codici gonzagheschi: La biblioteca dei Gonzaga da Luigi I ad Isabella. Biblioteca comunale 18 Settembre - 10 Ottobre, ed. by Ubaldo Meroni (Mantua: [Cuneo], 1966), p. 37 no. 5 [pl. 93 shows Burney MS 159, not MS 154 as stated in the caption; while pl. 114 shows Burney MS 154, not King's MS 21 as stated in the caption].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Askew, Anthony, physician and book collector, 1722-1774,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061332085,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/60017882
Gonzaga, Family, 1328-1708
Maffei, Mario, of Volterra; Bishop of Aquino; Bishop of Cavaillon, 1463-1537
Marsh, Charles, FSA, 1735-1812
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600