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Burney MS 158

Record Id:

040-002237039

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000ce

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 158

Title:

Cicero, In Verrem

Scope & Content:

Cicero, In Verrem (ff. 2r-219v); followed by another line of rubric, erased, the middle word is probably ‘de’.

Decoration:

Decorated with five-line initials in gold with white vine-stem decoration on a gold, red, blue, and green ground, the first seven-line, and with a partial border (ff. 2r, 13v, 22v, 56r, 96v, 148v, 182v); with the arms of Maffei of Volterra (cf. Burney MSS 160, 161, etc.), in a scalloped escutcheon (f. 2r, lower margin).

Headings in pale red capitals.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237039

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 158 : Cicero, In Verrem

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0153]/040-002237039

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 290 x 215 mm (text space 190 x 110 mm), in 32 lines.

Foliation: ff. iii + 222 (ff. i-iii, 1, and 222 are paper and parchment Askew flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-436.

Collation: i-xxii¹⁰ (ff. 2-221). The innermost bifolium of gathering ix (ff. 82-91) has been misbound since the 15th century: f. 86 should follow f. 83, and f. 87 should follow f. 89, as indicated by a note in the lower margin of f. 83v, and by the letters A-H in the upper corners of ff. 83-90. Catchwords.

Script: Humanistic cursive, written 'above top line'.

Binding: Post-1600. Typical Askew binding of diced leather, the covers with the usual ‘palmette and fleur-de-lis’ gilt roll; gauffered and gilt; the joints repaired.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central? (Rome?)

Provenance:

Owned by Mario Maffei (b. c. 1463, d. 1537), of Volterra, with his arms and erased ‘De figli …’ inscription (f. 2r; cf. Burney MS 214; see Ullman 1955, p. 373; and Ruysschaert 1958, p. 322).

Anthony Askew (b. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: bound for him; his sale, Leigh and Sotheby, 7 March 1785, lot 441, bought for £4 4s by 'Elmsbey', apparently acting for the Duke of Grafton.

Augustus Henry FitzRoy (b. 1735, d. 1811), 3rd Duke of Grafton, politician: inscribed 'D. of Grafton / 1785.' (f. 2r), 'at Askew's Sale. / y-y-e', (f. 1v, using his price-code, ‘Labyrinthe’), and '14' (f. 1v, cf. Burney MSS 174, 221); his anonymous sale, Evans, 6 June 1815, lot 288; inscribed '288' (f. i verso); bought by Burney for £3 10s.

The Grafton price-code decoded, perhaps by John Holmes, of the British Museum library: inscribed in pencil, 19th or 20th century 'cost the Duke of Grafton £4.4s. / JH.' (f. 1v).

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? (Rome?)

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=1418&CollID=18&NStart=158].

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. 275.

B. L. Ullman, 'Codices Maffeiani', in Studies in the Italian Renaissance (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1955), pp. 373-82 (p. 373 no. 3).

José Ruysschaert, 'Recherche des deux bibliothèques romaines Maffei des XVe et XVIe siècles', La Bibliofilia, 60 (1958), 306-33 (p. 322 no. 20).

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
FitzRoy, Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister, 28 Sep 1735-14 Mar 1811
Holmes, John, Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, 1800-1854
Maffei, Mario, of Volterra; Bishop of Aquino; Bishop of Cavaillon, 1463-1537
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600