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Burney MS 166
- Record Id:
- 040-002237047
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000d6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 166
- Title:
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Claudian, Carmina Maiora
- Scope & Content:
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Claudian, Carmina Maiora; in the order: In Rufinum (ff. 1r-12v), with the preface to Book II at the end (f. 12v); De Bello Gildonico (ff. 12v-19v); In Eutropium (ff. 19v-34r); Fescennina de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti (ff. 34r-35v); Epithalamium de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti (ff. 35v-40r); Panegyricus de Tertio Consulatu Honorii Augusti (ff. 40r-43r); Panegyricus de Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti (ff. 43r-51r); Panegyricus de Consulatu Flavii Manlii Theodori (ff. 51v-55v); De Consulatu Stilichonis (ff. 56r-71v); Panegyricus de Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augusti (ff. 71v-80r); De Bello Getico (ff. 80r-88r); Added prayer, 14th century(?), mentioning Saints John and Paul, and ista parochia, inc. Isti sunt due olive et duo candelabra (f. 88v).
Decoration:
Decorated with six-line initials in gold, silver(?), and blue at the start of the first preface and first book (f. 1r); one-, two-, and three-line initials in red, sometimes ‘metallic’, often with simple ornament.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237047 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 166 : Claudian, Carmina Maiora - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0161]/040-002237047
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1249
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 125 mm (text space 170 x 70 mm), in 40 lines of verse. Ruled in leadpoint.
Foliation: ff. iv + 92 (ff. i-iv, 89-92 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-176.
Collation: i-xi8 (ff. 1-88). Quire signatures a-k within a square.
Script: Gothic, written 'above top line'. Headings in smaller less formal script, perhaps added.
Binding: Post-1600. 19-century Burney binding of lightly diced polished calf; the lower edge of the leaves inscribed 'Claudianu[s](?)'.
Flyleaves with watermark of 'W Turner & Son'.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, S.(?).
Provenance:
Inscribed ‘1359’, 16th century(?) (f. 88v, lower margin).
The reformed fathers of Conegliano, Italy, north of Venice and Treviso, 16th century: 'Ste Mariae Grat(iarum) Conegl(I)ani / P.P. Reformatoru(m) / I. [72 effaced and replaced by] 53' (f. 1r; cf. Burney MS 196).
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:
- France, S.(?).
- 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=1534&CollID=18&NStart=166].
- Publications:
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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.
Claudii Claudiani Carmina, ed. by T. Birt, Monumenta Germaniæ historica: Auctorum antiquissimorum, 10 (Berlin, 1892), p. cxxiv (cod. Bu).
Claudii Claudiani Carmina, ed. by J. B. Hall (Leipzig: Teubner, 1985), p. XVI.
J. B. Hall, Prolegomena to Claudian, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement, 45 (London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1986), p. 17.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Claudianus Claudius, c 370-404,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121452012,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/246763674
The reformed fathers of Conegliano, Italy, north of Venice and Treviso, 16th century
W Turner and Son, 19th century