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Burney MS 157

Record Id:

040-002237038

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000cd

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 157

Title:

Speeches of Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero, Pseudo-Sallust, Aeschines, and Demosthenes (the latter two in the Latin translation of Leonardo Bruni)

Scope & Content:

Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia (ff. 2r-8r), preceded by an added argument (f. 1v); Pro Milone (ff. 8r-18r), with an added marginal argument; Pro Plancio (ff. 18r-28v); Pro Sulla (ff. 28v-37r); De Haruspicum Responsis (ff. 37r-43v); De Provinciis Consularibus (ff. 43v-47v); Pro Caelio (ff. 47v-55v); Pro Balbo (imperfect, ending in 56 at postularet, presumably due to the loss of a bifolium after f. 61r) (ff. 55v-61v); In Vatinum (imperfect, starting in 3.8 at totius cunctarum) (ff. 62r-65v); Pro Sestio (imperfect, ending in 69.144 at caedis cotidianae, due to the loss of a bifolium after f. 77r) (ff. 65v-77r); Pro Domo Sua (imperfect, starting in 13 at tabernariorum damnatus) (ff. 78r-89r); Pseudo-Cicero, Ad Romanos (ff. 89r-91r); Cicero, Post Reditum in Senatu (ff. 91r-94v); Post Reditum in Quirites (ff. 95r-98r); Pro Marcello (imperfect, lacking 10-21, from auctoritas to Sed tamen, due to the loss of a leaf after f. 98r) (ff.98r-100r); Pro Ligario (imperfect, lacking 9-20, from contra ipsum to nos [sic] in affricam, due to the loss of a leaf after f. 100r; with added marginal argument, ff. 99v-100r) (ff. 100r-102v); Pro Rege Deiotaro (ff. 102v-107r); Pro Archia Poeta (imperfect, lacking 8-25, from vir summa to cuius [sic] ingenium, due to the loss of of a bifolium after f. 107r) (ff. 107r-108v); In Catilinam (imperfect, lacking 2.20-27, from affectum sed to arma esse, after f. 114, and 3.15-21, from depoposcerat to indices, after f. 116, due to the loss of a bifolium) (ff. 108v-121v); Pro Quinctio (imperfect, lacking 8-15, from Quinctius iu[dicatum] to ire convenit, due to the loss of a bifolium after f. 123) (ff. 121v-129r); Pro Flacco (imperfect, lacking 21-36, from ad praetorem to preterea suis, due to the loss of a bifolium after f. 131, and 85-103, from the catchword non dices to non prosint, due to the loss of a leaf after f. 135) (ff. 129r-135v, 137r); Pseudo-Sallust, In Ciceronem (ff. 137r-138r); Pseudo-Cicero, In Crispum Sallustium (misbound, the order of the leaves should be ff. 138, 136, 141) (ff. 136r-136v, 138r-138v, 141r-141v); Cicero, Pro Cluentio (imperfect, lacking 22-38, from suos propinquos to et hominem, due to the loss of a leaf after f. 141; 62-93, from existimes to quid ergo, due to the loss of a bifolium after f. 144; and 159-200, from sunt vi[denda] to id quod, due to the loss of a bifolium after f. 150; misbound, the order of the first three leaves should be ff. 141, 139-140) (ff. 139r-140v, 141r, 142r-151r); Aeschines, Oratio contra Ctesiphontem, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni (imperfect, lacking from que autem to concessa. Non, due to the loss of a bifolium after f. 156) (ff. 151r-164v); Demosthenes, Oratio pro Ctesiphonte (De Corona), translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni (ff. 164v-177v); Table of contents, with (incorrect folio?) references in Arabic numerals (f. 178r); Cicero, De Lege Agraria, Oratio III (imperfect, lacking from 10 onwards, from solum sancit, due to the loss of a leaf after f. 179) (ff. 179r-179v); De Lege Agraria, Oratio I (imperfect, starting at 4, [ven]deremus) (ff. 180r-182r).

Decoration:

Decorated probably by the same artist as Bodleian, MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 65 (Pontano) and MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 123 (Vergil) (cf. Pächt and Alexander 1970, nos. 577, 578), with one full border (f. 2r) incorporating two sphinxes supporting a wreath enclosing a shield with the arms vert, a bend gules, apparently painted over azure a bend or (cf. MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 123); seven- to ten-line initials, some historiated with putti holding a cornucopia (f. 18r), an armorial shield (ff. 102v, 121v, 151v), a garland (f. 107r), the initial itself (f. 112v), or blowing a horn (f. 138r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237038

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 157 : Speeches of Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero, Pseudo-Sallust, Aeschines, and Demosthenes (the latter two in the Latin translation of…

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0152]/040-002237038

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 320 x 220 mm (text space 205 x 135 mm), in 39 lines. Ruled in brown leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. i + 183 (ff. 1 and 183 are original flyleaves, f. i is added). Burney pagination 1-361.

Collation: i⁸⁺¹ (1st leaf inserted; ff. 1-9), ii-vii⁸ (ff. 10-57), viii^10-2 (centre bifolium missing; ff. 58-65), ix⁸ (ff. 66-73), x^10-2 (centre bifolium missing; ff. 74-81), xi^8-2 (centre bifolium missing; ff. 82-87), xii⁸ (ff. 88-95), xiii^10-2 (two leaves, a bifolium, missing after ff. 98 and 100; ff. 96-103); xiv^10-2 (centre bifolium missing; ff. 104-111), xv^10-2 (two leaves, a bifolium, missing after ff. 114 and 116; ff. 112-119), xvi^10-2 (centre bifolium missing; ff. 120-127), xvii^10-2 (centre bifolium missing; ff. 128-135), xviii^8-2 (the outer bifolium missing, and the present outer bifolium should be the inner bifolium; ff. 136-141), xix^8-2 (centre bifolium missing; ff. 142-148), xx^8-2 (centre bifolium missing; ff. 148-153), xxi^8-2 (centre bifolium missing; ff. 154-159), xxii-xxiii⁸ (ff. 160-175), xxiv^10-2 (first and fifth leaves missing; ff. 176-183).

Script: Humanistic cursive, written 'above top line', perhaps entirely by the scribe who later added the arguments (f. 1v, etc.), who is in turn identifiable as the scribe of three other manuscripts with the arms of the Erizzo family of Venice (on which see Kidd 2001, pp. 99-100), according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.

Binding: Post-1600. 17th-century binding of polished calf, the gilt tooling very similar to Burney MSS 132 and 146.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, N.E. (Venice).

Provenance:

Probably written for (by and?) a member of the Erizzo family of Venice, to judge by the script and the now-overpainted arms, which were azure a bend or; the Erizzo family arms have a reversed gothic ‘E’ and a hedgehog ('riccio' in modern Italian), both sable, on the bend, but these are no longer visible due to over-painting (ff. 2r, 102v, 121v, 151v; for four other manuscripts with the Erizzo arms see Kidd 2001, p. 100, to which should be added Cambridge, University Library, Add. MS. 4121, and BL, Stowe MS 29, in which the arms are reversed).

Cardinal Domenico Grimani (b. 1461, d. 1523): inscribed 'Liber D. Grimani Car(dinalis) s(ancti) Marci' (erased, f. 2r; a similar inscription occurs in Add. MS 8904).

? A member of the Lan family, of Treviso: with the family's arms of vert, a bend gules painted over the earlier arms (ff. 2r, 102v, 121v, 151v; see Morando di Custoza 1985, pl. CCLXXII).

Unidentified owner: book-plate removed from front pastedown.

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, N.E. (Venice).

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=1381&CollID=18&NStart=157].

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.

Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), no. 274.

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2: Italian School (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), nos. 577 and 578.

Eugenio Morando di Custoza, Blasonario Veneto (Verona: Cartiera di Tolmezzo, 1985), pl. CCLXXII.

Peter Kidd, Medieval manuscripts from the collection of T. R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Oxford, 2001), pp. 99-100.

The Inventory of H. P. Kraus, Sotheby's, New York, 4-5 December, 2003, p. 494.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Aeschines, Attic orator, 389-314 BC
Bruni, Leonardo, Italian humanist, 1370-1444,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121442279
Demosthenes, statesman and orator, 384 BC-322 BC
Erizzo, Family, Late 9th century-18th century
Grimani, Domenico, theologian, Cardinal and collector, 1461-1523
Lan, Family
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