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Burney MS 167

Record Id:

040-002237048

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000d7

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 167

Title:

Claudian, Carmina Maiora

Scope & Content:

Claudian, Carmina Maiora; in the order: In Rufinum, with the preface to Book II and the end (ff. 3r-17v); De Bello Gildonico (ff. 17v-25v); De Bello Getico (ff. 25v-35v); Gigantomachia (ff. 36r-37v); De Consulatu Stilichonis (ff. 38r-57r); In Eutropium (ff. 57r-75r); Fescennina de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti (ff. 75r-77r); Epithalamium de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti (ff. 77r-82v); Panegyricus de Tertio Consulatu Honorii Augusti (ff. 82v-86r); Panegyricus de Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti (ff. 86r-95v); Panegyricus de Consulatu Flavii Manlii Theodori (ff. 96r-101r); Panegyricus de Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augusti (ff. 101r-110v); with the following poems from the Carmina Minora: Epithalamium dictum Palladio v.c. tribuno et notario et Celerinae (ff. 110v-112v); De Salvatore (ff. 112v-113r).

Decoration:

Decorated with alternately blue or red initials, with gold ornament (ff. 3-4), and two- to four-line plain blue or red (or blue and red, ff. 26r, 57r, 112v), initials.

Marginal penwork and cadels.

Spaces left for headings.

This manuscript was collated by Gilbert Wakefield in a copy of Heinsius' 1665 edition of Claudian now in the British Library (C.45.c.26).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237048

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 167 : Claudian, Carmina Maiora

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0162]/040-002237048

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:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 225 x 100 mm (text space 160 x 60 mm), in 33 lines. Ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. 115 (ff. 1-2, 114-115 are flyleaves). Burney foliation (ignoring the flyleaves) 1-111.

Collation: i-iv⁸ (ff. 3-34), v^4-1 (3rd leaf cancelled; ff. 35-37), vi-xiv⁸ (ff. 38-109), xv⁴ (ff. 110-113). Traces of catchwords. Quire signatures in brown 'crayon' I-XIII.

In 1797, while in the Duke of Grafton's possession, it was collated against the 1665 printed edition of the text by J. Walker of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, whose copy is now British Library C.45.c.26.

Script: Gothic, written 'above top line'; each line of verse on a new line.

Binding: Post-1600. 18th-century binding of red morocco; dark blue endpapers; the edges of the leaves gilt; rust and copper stains on the first and last leaves suggest that a former binding had a single clasp at the fore-edge.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

Annotated sporadically by early hands.

The Augustinian abbey of St Denis, Rheims: 'Iste liber e(st) de (con)ue(n)tu s. dyonisij reme(n)sj(?) […] d(omi)ni(?) .I. … abbas(??) n(ost)ri(?)' (f. 3r, erased).

Unidentified arms: a reserved trefoil on a dark ground (f. 3r).

? Walter Clavell, F. R.S., elected 1704, admitted to the Inner Temple in 1700: perhaps in his sale, at Heath's, 29 March 1742, p. 81, lot 14.

Unidentified French bookseller(?): with an eight-line note ('MSS tres precieux par son antiquité …') and price '120' (f. 1v).

? Count Justin de MacCarthy-Reagh (b. 1744, d. 1811): his anonymous London sale, Leigh and Sotheby, 18 May 1789, lot 1657 (the catalogue quoting the French description on f. 1v), bought by the Duke of Grafton for for £23 2s.

Augustus Henry FitzRoy (b. 1735, d. 1811), 3rd duke of Grafton, politician: '1789 D. of Grafton.' (f. 3r, over an erasure), with his price-code 'ab-a-e' (f. 2v); and '114)' (f. 2v; written the same as '14)' in Burney MS 158); inscribed 'I bought this MS. at an auction, at Leigh's, of books, the collection of a gentleman in France. …' (f. 1v); in his anonymous sale, 6 June 1815, lot 598 ('598' in pencil, f. 2), bought by Burney for £17 10s.

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.

Inscribed with notes initialled by John Holmes(?) (between 1800 and 1854) (f. 2v) and Frederic Madden (between 1828 and 1866) (f. 1v).

Administrative Context:

France.

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=1543&CollID=18&NStart=167].

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.

Claudii Claudiani Carmina, ed. by T. Birt, Monumenta Germaniæ historica: Auctorum antiquissimorum, 10 (Berlin, 1892), pp. cxxi, cxxxi (cod. Bs).

J. B. Hall, 'Claudian', in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 143-45, (p. 144).

Claudii Claudiani Carmina, ed. by J. B. Hall (Leipzig: Teubner, 1985), pp. XVI, XXVI (cod. L).

J. B. Hall, Prolegomena to Claudian, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement, 45 (London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1986), p. 15.

P. L. Schmidt, Traditio latinitatis: Studien zur Rezeption und Überlieferung der lateinischen Literatur (Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 2000), p. 65, note 52.

O. Fuoco, Claudio Claudiano. Fescennina dicta Honorio Augusto et Mariae (Bari: Cacucci Editore, 2013), p. 59.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Abbey of St Denis
Claudianus Claudius, c 370-404,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121452012,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/246763674
Clavell, Walter, of the Inner Temple, fl. 1717-1730
FitzRoy, Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister, 28 Sep 1735-14 Mar 1811
Holmes, John, Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, 1800-1854
MacCarthy-Reagh, Justin, Count, 1744-1811
Madden, Frederic, Knight, Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, 1801-1873

Related Material:

Collated by Gilbert Wakefield in a copy of Heinsius' 1665 edition of Claudian now in the British Library (C.45.c.26).