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Burney MS 172

Record Id:

040-002237053

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000dc

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 172

Title:

Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome de T. Livio Bellorum omnium annorum DCC, imperfect; Eutropius, Breviarum ab urbe condita; Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana

Scope & Content:

Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome de T. Livio Bellorum omnium annorum DCC, imperfect except for the last few words, now covered and obscured by another sheet of paper (f. 1r); Eutropius, Breviarum ab urbe condita (ff. 1v-60r); Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana (ff. 60r-90v).

f. 1 consists of two leaves stuck together: the first is blank; the recto of the second contains the explicit of the Florus text; and the verso contains the start of the Eutropius text.

Decoration:

Decorated with five- to seven-line gold initials with green penwork flourishing at the start of books (f. 7v, 14v, 28r, 31v, 45r, 48v, 55r, 60r, 64r, 69v, 74r, 79r, 85v); three-line initials alternately plain red or blue; an eight-line space left for an initial at the start of Eutropius (f. 1r).

The author’s name and the book number in pale red in the upper margin, throughout.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237053

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 172 : Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome de T. Livio Bellorum omnium annorum DCC, imperfect; Eutropius, Breviarum ab urbe condita; Paul…

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0167]/040-002237053

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1455

End Date:

1465

Date Range:

c 1460

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 220 x 120 mm (text space 155 x 65 mm), in 32 lines. Ruled in blind.

Foliation: ff. xi + 100 (ff. i-xi and 100 are flyleaves; ff. 91-99 are ruled). Burney pagination 1-182.

Collation: i^12-9 (1st to 9th leaves missing; ff. 1-3), ii-ix¹² (ff. 4-99). Vertical catchwords.

Script: Written in humanistic cursive script; some headings, and the first lines of the Eutropius, in square capitals. Scribe: Perhaps Carlo Reguardati/Riguardati.

Binding: Post-1600. 18th-century binding of reddish leather.

Front flyleaves with a large gothic ‘S’ watermark.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central? (Nursia/Norcia?)

Provenance:

Written perhaps in 1460 by Carlo Reguardati of Nursia/Norcia: inscribed, apparently by the main scribe despite a difference in script, 'Mei Karoli Reguardati Nursini Militis / .1460.' (f. 90v; cf. Watson, Dated and datable 1979, p. 166); similar inscriptions occur in Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana Ashb. 1233 (dated 1457); Vatican Library, Ottob. Lat. 2867 (dated 1467); and Beinecke Library, Marston MS. 258 (dated 1444); for the last see Colophons 1965, no. 2496.

Unidentified owner, 17th century?: inscribed 'S.' or '5.' (front pastedown).

Unidentified owner, 17th century?: inscribed 'B' (f. 99v; cf. Burney MS 183).

Unidentified owner: bought by Burney at an anonymous sale, Christie’s, 19 May 1803, lot 49.

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, Central? (Nursia/Norcia?)

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=1439&CollID=18&NStart=172].

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. 54.

Bénédictins du Bouveret, Colophons de manuscrits occidentaux des origines au XVIe siècle, 6 vols (Fribourg: Éditions universitaires, 1965-1982), I, no. 2496.

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, 166.

Paul O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 132.

L. B. Mortensen, 'The Diffusion of Roman Histories in the Middle Ages. A List Of Orosius, Eutropius, Paulus Diaconus and Landolfus Sagax Manuscripts,' Filologia Mediolatina VI-VII, (2000), 101-200 (p. 178).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Eutropius, Flavius, fl 370,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121248871,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/25396473
Florus, Lucius Annaeus, Roman historian, Early 2nd century
Paul the Deacon, Benedictine monk, scribe and historian, c 720-799,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000454758685,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/40174477
Reguardati, Carlo, of Nursia/Norcia, 15th century