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Burney MS 170

Record Id:

040-002237051

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000da

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 170

Title:

Dictys of Crete, Ephemeris Belli Troiani

Scope & Content:

Dictys of Crete, Ephemeris Belli Troiani (ff. 2v-72r); preceded (f. 2r) by the letter from Lucius Septimius, but without the prologue printed in Eisenhut’s Teubner edition.

All but the last two words of f. 43r repeat the text on the facing page, and the former was therefore marked ‘vacat’.

Spaces left for initials.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237051

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 170 : Dictys of Crete, Ephemeris Belli Troiani

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0165]/040-002237051

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment text

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 245 x 170 mm (text space 145 x 95 mm), in 23 lines. Vertical rulings in brown leadpoint, horizontals in pale grey ink.

Foliation: ff. i + 75 + 1* (ff. i-1*, 73-75 are flyleaves; ff. i, 75 are paper). Burney pagination 1-141.

Collation: i-viii⁸ (ff. 2-65), ix^8-1 (last leaf cancelled; ff. 66-72).

Script: Written ‘below top line’, in humanistic script.

Binding: Post-1600. 18th-century Askew binding with the usual ‘palmette and fleur-de-lis’ gilt tool.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Annotated with a very few corrections, and more frequently with subject headings by another hand.

Mario Maffei (b. 1463, d. 1537), with traces of the usual erased ‘De figli …’ inscription (f. 2r, upper margin; cf. Burney MS 214; see Ullman 1955, p. 374, and Ruysschaert 1958, p. 323).

Anthony Askew (b. 1722, d. 1772), his sale 1785, lot 459, bought by Lewes for 18s.

Sold with other Askew-Lewes MSS by Leigh and Sotheby, 12 Feb. 1787, lot 1503, bought by d’Eon for £1 7s.

Charles d’Eon de Beaumont (d. 1810); inscribed ‘De la Bibliothèque de la Chevalière D’Eon ./. / olim Maffeianus’ (f. 1r) and ‘£15 st.’ in red (f. 1*v; cf. Burney MS 161, etc.); in his sale, Christie’s, 5 May 1791, fourth catalogue, lot 17, and Christie’s, 12 Feb. 1813, lot 11.

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.

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 54.

Henry L. D. Ward, Catalogue of romances in the Department of manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I (1883), pp. 9-10 (a detailed description).

B. L. Ullman, 'Codices Maffeiani', in Studies in the Italian Renaissance (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1955), pp. 373-82 (p. 374).

José Ruysschaert, 'Recherche des deux bibliothèques romaines Maffei des XVe et XVIe siècles', La Bibliofilia, 60 (1958), 306-33 (p. 323).

Dictys of Crete, Ephemeridos Belli Troiani Libri, ed. by W. Eisenhut (Leipzig: Teubner, 1958).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Askew, Anthony, physician and book collector, 1722-1774,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061332085,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/60017882
Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée, Chevalier, diplomat and spy, 1728-1810
Dictys of Crete, legendary figure
Maffei, Mario, of Volterra; Bishop of Aquino; Bishop of Cavaillon, 1463-1537
Septimus, Lucius, probable translator of Dictys of Crete, 4th century