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Burney MS 168
- Record Id:
- 040-002237049
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000d8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 168
- Title:
- Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
- Scope & Content:
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Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni (ff. 1r-179v). Lacunae are marked by the main scribe (e.g. ‘hic deest: & sic in omnibus exemplaribus reperitur’, f. 169r; elsewhere a nine-line gap is marked ‘nihil deest’, f. 171v).
Decoration:
Decorated with a six-line gold initial with white vine-stem decoration on a green, pink, and blue ground, with matching three-sided border, the lower border incorporating a nine-sided escutcheon flanked by the letters ‘V B’: bendy of five, sable and argent, in chief an eye(?); three- to seven-line initials in plain blue at the start of each book (ff. 18v, 50v, 71r, 92r, 114v, 142v, 163v); one-line initials also in plain blue.
Headings in red; alternate lines at the start of each book sometimes written in capitals; the first word of Books 9 and 10 written in alternate ordinary and red capitals.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237049 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 168 : Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0163]/040-002237049
- 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:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 145 mm (text space 170 x 75 mm), in 30 lines. Ruled in blind.
Foliation: ff. vi + 183 (ff. i-v and 181-183 are paper flyleaves; ff. vi and 180 are original parchment flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-358.
Collation: i-xviii10 (ff. 1-180). Vertical catchwords. Traces of leaf signatures.
Script: Humanistic cursive, written 'below top line'. The scribe from line 23 of f. 116v, and of the headings throughout, has been identified as Bartolomeo di Giampiero Fonzio (b. c.1446, d. 1513) by A. C. de la Mare (see de la Mare 1985, p. 488 no 17).
Binding: Post-1600. 19th-century Burney binding of pale brown calf, with traces of the Burney stamp on the upper cover: ‘Ex bibliotheca Caroli Burneii S.T.P.’ (cf. Burney MSS 142, 177, etc.); the edges of the leaves tooled and gilt; the lower edges of the leaves inscribed ‘Quint. Curtius’ in capitals.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).
Provenance:
Unidentified owner (identified in Burney cat. as the Albergotti): with his arms, bendy of five sable and argent over an erasure (cf. Burney MSS 142 and 245), in chief argent, an eye(?), the shield and the text flanked by the letters 'V B' (f. 1r; cf. Burney MS 142); extensive marginal annotations include some by the same hand as in Burney MS 142.
Unidentified owner: inscribed with a two-word/name inscription (erased, f. vi verso).
Unidentified English owner, 17th century: inscribed '£1-10-0', (f. 180v; cf. Burney MSS 142, 150, 177, 208; and see below).
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar: apparently acquired as part of a group with Burney 142, 150, 177, and 208: their front covers all have 'Ex Bibliotheca / Caroli Burneii S.T.P.' blind-stamped underneath the British Museum's 'Codex / Burneianus' gilt stamp; several of the group share other features.
Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy, Central (Florence).
- 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=1567&CollID=18&NStart=168].
- 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. 54.
Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), no. 279.
Alfred Fairbank, ‘Three Renaissance Scripts’, Journal of the Society for Italic Handwriting, 32 (1962), 9-10 (pp. 9-10, pl. 3).
Alfred Fairbank, 'Bartolomeo Fonzio', Journal of the Society of Italic Handwriting, 91 (1977), 8-12, pls. I-II [pl. I erroneously described as Burney MS 158]
A. C. de la Mare, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', in Minatura fiorentina del rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed by A. Garzelli and A. C. de la Mare, Inventari e cataloghi toscani, 18-19, 2 vols ([Florence]: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), I, 395-600 (p. 488).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Roman historian, Late 1st century
Fonzio, Bartolomeo, scribe, c 1446-1513 - Related Archive Descriptions:
- Burney MS 142