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Burney MS 162

Record Id:

040-002237043

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000d2

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 162

Title:

Cicero, De Inventione; preceded by Grillius, In Ciceronis Libros de Inventione, excerpt; Rhetorica ad Herennium

Scope & Content:

Cicero, De Inventione (ff. 5r-106r); preceded by Grillius, In Ciceronis Libros de Inventione 1.17 (ff. 1r-4r) (see Olsen 1982, p. 132 no 489; cf. Burney MS 164); Rhetorica ad Herennium (ff. 107r-187v).

Decoration:

Decorated with five- to nine-line rudimentary vine-stem/interlace initials on parti-coloured grounds of purple and pale yellow-green (ff. 5r, 8r, 55v); one eight-line (added?) uncoloured initial with more complex vine-stem interlace, incorporating a butterfly (f. 107r).

Spaces for other small initials left blank.

Headings and marginal headings in pale red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237043

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 162 : Cicero, De Inventione; preceded by Grillius, In Ciceronis Libros de Inventione, excerpt; Rhetorica ad Herennium

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0157]/040-002237043

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment 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: Parchment.

Dimensions: 235 x 150 mm (text space 165 x 80 mm), in 23 lines.

Foliation: ff. ii + 191 (ff. i-ii, 189-191 are flyleaves; f. 188 is Burney's table of contents, f. 189 is old paper). Burney pagination 1-374.

Collation: i⁴ (ff. 1-4), ii¹² (ff. 5-16), iii-xi¹⁰ (ff. 17-106), xii-xviii¹⁰ (ff. 107-176), xix^12-1 (last leaf cancelled; ff. 177-187). Quire signatures from i to viiii (ff. 16v-96v) and by another hand xi-xv.

Script: Humanistic, written 'below top line', by more than one scribe, changing at f. 157r, the start of quire 17.

Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1962. F. ii recto from the previous binding with watermark of ‘W Turner & Son’ (cf. Burney MSS 135, 163, 164, etc.).

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central (Florence?).

Provenance:

Though by the main scribe, the Grillius was perhaps not part of the original plan, as it forms a distinct gathering, is not included in the series of quire signatures, and did not receive rubrication or decoration.

Battista Panetius/Panezio (d. 1497) of Ferrara, Vicar-General of the Carmelite Order in 1485 and 1493: inscribed 'F. bap. Panetius / emit' (f. 106r, partly erased but visible under UV light); he also owned Additional MS 23764 (see Kristeller 1989, p. 78), and at least ten other manuscripts cited by Kristeller, 1977-1997, at least two of which Panezio bequeathed to the Carmelite monastery of St Paul, Ferrara.

Perhaps in the anonymous sale at Sotheby's, 19 April 1817, lot 41, bought by Burney for 13s.

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=1533&CollID=18&NStart=162].

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. 53.

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), pp. 78, 132.

Birger Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), I (1982), p. 132 no. 489.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Grillius, rhetorician and author of commentary on De Inventione, fl 5th century
Panetti, Battista, of Ferrara; Carmelite, d 1497
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600
W Turner and Son, 19th century