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Burney MS 165

Record Id:

040-002237046

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000d5

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 165

Title:

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes; De Finibus; Academica, Book I

Scope & Content:

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes (ff. 1r-91v); De Finibus (ff. 93r-178v); Academica, Book I (ff. 178v-186v).

Decoration:

Decorated with seven- or eight-line gold initials with white vine-stem ornament on a red, green, and blue ground (ff. 1r, 93r); later four- to seven-line gold initials on red, green, and blue grounds (ff. 2v, 24r, 26r, 37r, 38r, 53v, 55r, 70r, 72v, 106v, 129r, 143v, 158v, 178v); the first heading in lines of gold, blue, red, green, and red epigraphic capitals, others in plain red capitals.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237046

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 165 : Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes; De Finibus; Academica, Book I

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0160]/040-002237046

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Greek
Latin

Start Date:

1465

End Date:

1475

Date Range:

c 1470

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 255 x 180 mm (text space 165 x 95 mm), in 32 lines. Ruled in grey-brown ink. Single prickings at the fore-edge slightly below the lowest ruled line.

Foliation: ff. i + 187 (ff. i and 187 are flyleaves). Old ink foliation 1-189, omitting f. 125; corrected in pencil thereafter.

Collation: i-xviii¹⁰ (ff. 1-180), xix^8-2 (last two cancelled; ff. 181-186). Vertical catchwords.

Script: Humanistic cursive, written 'above top line'. Scribe: Ludovicus de Vannuchoris of Lucca (to whom at least 36 other manuscripts can be attributed), according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Binding: Post-1600. Worn red velvet over pasteboards, 18th century; pink silk pastedowns; edges gilt; rebacked. The lower edges of the leaves inscribed in capitals ‘Cicer. Tusc. Quest.’.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central (Rome).

Provenance:

Written probably in Rome by Ludovicus de Vannuchoris, apparently copied from Lucca, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS. VIII 562, written by the same scribe and dated 1468; he also probably copied Harley MS 3953 from the same exemplar.

Annotated sporadically by several humanistic hands, occasionally in Greek (ff. 57v-58r), and with manicula drawn without lifting the pen (ff. 93v, 94v).

Unidentified Italian(?) owner, 18th century: with his foliation (cf. Burney MSS 142, 150, 168, and 208).

? Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Rome: with an unidentified erased circular stamp (ff. 1r, 186v), and thus perhaps alienated from the library during Napoleonic upheavals (see Hunt 1998, p. 186).

Unidentified English owner: inscribed '£1-10-0', 18th century (f. 186v; cf. Burney MSS 142, 150, 168, 177, and 208).

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=1574&CollID=18&NStart=165].

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.

Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), no. 278.

Terence J. Hunt, A Textual History of Cicero's Academici libri, Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava: Supplementum, 181 (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp. 186-89.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Rome, 1565-
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600
Vannuchoris, Ludovicus, of Lucca; scribe, 15th century