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Burney MS 156

Record Id:

040-002237037

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000cc

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 156

Title:

Cicero, Philippics; Topica; Pseudo-Cicero, Synonyma; De Differentiis

Scope & Content:

Cicero, Philippics (ff. 1r-69v); Topica (ff. 70r-78v); Pseudo-Cicero, Synonyma (ff. 79r-84r); De Differentiis (ff. 84v-90r).

Decoration:

Decorated with three- and four-line initials alternately in blue with red penwork flourishing, or vice versa, as far as the start of the Topica; thereafter with two-line initials alternately in plain red or blue.

Running titles in red in the upper right margin of rectos.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237037

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 156 : Cicero, Philippics; Topica; Pseudo-Cicero, Synonyma; De Differentiis

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0151]/040-002237037

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex

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: Paper.

Dimensions: 295 x 215 mm (text space 195 x 125 mm), in 31 lines. Frame-ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. ix + 95 + 69*, 78* (ff. i-ix, 93-95 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-183.

Collation: i-vii¹⁰ (ff. 1-69*), viii¹⁰ (ff. 70-78*), ix^12? (ff. 79-90).

Script: Written in gothic cursive script. Perhaps written by Roberto de' Rossi.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of lightly diced polished calf, blind tooled.

Flyleaves with watermark of ‘C Wilmott / 1807’.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).

Provenance:

Perhaps at least partly copied from Coluccio Salutati's copy of the Synonyma and De differentiis: ‘… Et hoc habui a ser Coluccio monacha.’ (f. 79r, top right; see Ullman 1963, pp. 224-25). Possibly by Roberto de’ Rossi himself, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library: inscribed immediately after the Philippics, in a more careful semi-humanistic script (described by de la Mare as very like that of the late hand of Salutati): ‘Iste liber e(st) Roberti francisci Derossis. Deflor(entia)’ (f. 69v).

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=1375&CollID=18&NStart=156].

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. 52.

Berthold L. Ullman, The Humanism of Coluccio Salutati (Padua: Antenore, 1963), pp. 224-225.

M. D. Reeve, 'Cicero: Topica', in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 128-30 (p. 130 n. 32).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Rossi, Roberto, humanist; from Florence, 15th century
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600
Wilmott, Charles, papermaker; from Kent, Late 18th century-Early 19th century