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Burney MS 164

Record Id:

040-002237045

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000d4

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 164

Title:

Rhetorica ad Herennium; Grillius, In Ciceronis Libros de Inventione, excerpt

Scope & Content:

Rhetorica ad Herennium (ff. 1r-65r); Grillius, In Ciceronis Libros de Inventione 1.17 (ff. 65r-67r) (cf. Olsen 1982, p. 132 no. 489).

Sporadic marginal and interlinear glosses in humanistic hands.

Decoration:

Decorated with five- to seven-line initials in blue with red penwork ornament, or vice versa (f. 1r, 8r, 23v, 35v); one- and two-line initials alternately plain red or blue; occasional paraphs in red or blue. Guide-letters.

Capitals stroked with yellow wash; headings in pale red, in the first gathering they are written in the margins in a downward-sloping hand.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237045

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 164 : Rhetorica ad Herennium; Grillius, In Ciceronis Libros de Inventione, excerpt

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0159]/040-002237045

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: 215 x 145 mm (text space 130 x 90 mm), in 27 lines. Ruled in pale brown ink.

Foliation: ff. iv + 73 + 67*, 67**, 67*** (ff. i-iv, 70-73 are flyleaves, f. 68 is a former flyleaf, f. 69 is a former pastedown). Burney pagination 1-133.

Collation: i-vii¹⁰ (ff. 1-67***), viii² (ff. 68-69). Quire signatures A-M in the lower right of the last verso and the lower left of the first recto of each quire, so that A faces B (ff. 10v-11r), C faces D (ff. 20v-21r), etc.

Script: Semi-humanistic, written 'below top line'.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of polished diced brown leather; the final parchment leaf has rust and copper stains from a previous binding, suggesting that it was clasped at all three edges.

Flyleaves with watermark of 'W Turner & Son'.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central? (Perugia?).

Provenance:

Cursive notes, perhaps including the draft of a letter, in Italian and Latin, 15th or 16th century, include the names Francesco and Antonio (ff. 68r-69v).

Francesco Maturanzio (d. 1518), humanist of Perugia.

The monastery of S. Pietro, Perugia, of the Congregation of Sta. Giustina of Padua, bequeathed by Maturanzio: 'Ex Testamento Francisci Maturantij’ and 'Est mon(aster)ij S. Petri de Perusio sig. N^o. 91' (f. 1r; upper and lower margins, respectively, both partly erased; Perugia, Biblioteca ‘Augusta’ delle Comune, MS. C. 53 (170) has very similar inscriptions; cf. Escorial, Υ.III.11); 'Simo(n) franc(iscus) not(ariu)s mo(naste)rij S(an)c(t)i petri', 16th century (f. 1r, lower margin; cf. Escorial MS); 'S. Petri de Perusio', 17th century (f. 18v); cf. Burney MSS 88 and 96; see Batelli 1967, at pp. 257-8).

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, Central? (Perugia?).

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://prodigi.bl.uk/illcat/record.asp?MSID=1432&CollID=18&NStart=164].

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.

Giulio Battelli, 'Gli antichi codici di San Pietro di Perugia', Bolletino della Deputazione di Storia Patria per l'Umbria, 44 (1967), 242-66 (pp. 257-58; reprinted in his collected essays: Scritti scelti: codici, documenti, archivi (Rome: Multigrafica, 1975), pp. 357-381) (also retaining original pagination).

B. 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:

Benedictine Abbey of San Pietro, Perugia; of the Congregation of St. Justine of Padua, 10th century
Grillius, rhetorician and author of commentary on De Inventione, fl 5th century
Matarazzo [Maturanzio], Francesco, humanist of Perugia, 1443-1518,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121215404
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