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Burney MS 171
- Record Id:
- 040-002237052
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000db
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 171
- Title:
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Aelius Donatus, Commentum Terenti
- Scope & Content:
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Aelius Donatus, Commentum Terenti; includes: Vita Terenti (ff. 1r-2r); Euanthius, De Fabula (ff. 2r-5v); Aelius Donatus, In Andriam (ff. 6r-46v); In Eunuchum (ff. 47r-95v); In Adelphos (ff. 96r-147v); In Hecyram (ff. 147v-180r); In Phormionem (ff. 180r-205v).
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- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237052 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 171 : Aelius Donatus, Commentum Terenti - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0166]/040-002237052
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Paper codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper, of variable quality.
Dimensions: 220 x 150 mm (text space 160 x 110 mm), typically 34-36 lines. Ruled lightly in blind.
Foliation: ff. ii + 207 (ff. i-ii, 206-207 are flyleaves). An 18th(?)-century foliation omits 170-179 and thus reaches 215.
Collation: Leaves now mounted as singletons on guards; catchwords suggest that the former collation was i-xi10 (ff. 1-110), xii6-1 (6th leaf cancelled; ff. 111-115), xiii10 (ff. 116-125), xiv6 (ff. 126-131), xv-xxii10 (ff. 132-201), xxiii4 (ff. 202-205).
Script: Written in humanistic cursive script by several scribes, some of them working simultaneously (see e.g. 115v-116r).
Binding: BM/BL in-house. 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
Backlighting reveals writing, including ‘no. 7’, under a paper repair on f. 205v.
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.
Inscribed ‘E libris Caroli Parr Burney. 1818’ (f. 1r).
Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy.
- 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.
Aelius Donatus, Commentum Terenti, ed. by P. Wessner, 3 vols (Leipzig: Teubner, 1902-08), I, pp. 3-10.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Donatus, Aelius, grammarian and teacher, 4th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121282471
Euanthius, commentator on Terence, 4th century