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Burney MS 163

Record Id:

040-002237044

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000d3

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 163

Title:

Rhetorica ad Herennium; Cicero, De Amicitia; Somnium Scipionis; De Senectute; Paradoxa Stoicorum

Scope & Content:

Fragment of a grammatical treatise (f. 1v); Rhetorica ad Herennium (ff. 2r-54v); Cicero, De Amicitia (ff. 55r-71r); Somnium Scipionis (ff. 72r-75v); De Senectute (ff. 76r-90v); Paradoxa Stoicorum (ff. 90v-97v).

Spaces left for initials, filled-in only in the third and fourth gatherings, sporadically.

Some headings in very pale red.

First folio washed out.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237044

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 163 : Rhetorica ad Herennium; Cicero, De Amicitia; Somnium Scipionis; De Senectute; Paradoxa Stoicorum

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0158]/040-002237044

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:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 285 x 185 mm (text space 190 x 115 mm), in 32 lines. Ruled in brown leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. iv + 101 + 54*, 75*-75**** (ff. i-iv, 98-101 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-192.

Collation: i-v¹⁰ (ff. 2-51), vi⁴ (ff. 52-54*), vii-viii¹⁰ (55-74), ix^6-1 (6th cancelled; ff. 75-75****), x¹⁰ (76-85), xi¹² (ff. 86-97). Catchwords; vertical after Rhetorica ad Herennium; ff. 55-64 numbered [1]-10 in the lower right corner.

Script: Rhetorica ad Herennium written 'above top line' (perhaps by the scribe identified as that of Florence, Bibl. Laurenziana, Fiesole 44 (de la Mare 1985, p. 547)), the remainder written ‘below top line’ in a clear round humanistic script apparently by two main scribes, ff. 55r-56v probably by a third.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of diced polished calf.

Flyleaves with the watermark 'W Turner & Son'.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Marginal headings in pale red apparently added by a reader, not by the original scribes.

Annotated by at least two humanistic hands, one of whom added titles.

Possible marks of ownership are erasures (ff. 1r, 2r), an offset of an inscription on a lost flyleaf (f. 1r), ‘BIESLA’? and ‘3’, 18th century(?) (f. 1v, lower margin, upside down), and a list of contents in black square capitals, 18th century (f. 1r).

The top 3 cm of the fore-edge has been cut back a few mm and inscribed ‘8’.

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.

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.

Albinia de la Mare, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', in Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed. by Annarosa Garzelli, 2 vols, ([Florence]: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), I, p. 547.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

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