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Burney MS 173

Record Id:

040-002237054

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000dd

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 173

Title:

Frontinus, Strategemata

Scope & Content:

Frontinus, Strategemata (ff. 1r-76v).

Decoration:

1 large white vine initial, in colours and gold, extending into a partial border (f. 1r). Small initials in plain red.

Headings in pale red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237054

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 173 : Frontinus, Strategemata

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0168]/040-002237054

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1461

End Date:

1461

Date Range:

1461

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Watermarks are a pair of shears (similar to Briquet 1968, nos. 3762-68, especially no. 3766, from Venice, 1471).

Dimensions: 220 x 140 mm (text space 135 x 80 mm), in typically 20 or 27 lines. Ruled lightly in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. iv + 80 (ff. i-iv and 77-80 are flyleaves). Burney paginaton 1-152.

Collation: i² (ff. 1-2), ii-vi¹² (ff. 3-62), vii¹⁴ (ff. 63-76). Vertical catchwords. Leaf signatures.

Script: Written ‘above top line’ in humanistic script. Scribe: 'Petrus Leo Ortinus'.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of lightly diced brown calf. Flyleaves with watermark of 'W Turner & Son'.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, N. E.? (Veneto/Venice?)

Provenance:

Written in 1461: with the scribal colophon, 'M^occcc 6i die xiij Februarij ; petrusleo / Ortinus scripsit / Qui me furatur in tribus lignis suspendatur / Deo gr(ati)as' (f. 76v); noted by Kristeller 1989, p. 134; cf. Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Ashburnham 1702 (see Kristeller 1977, pp. 97-98).

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, N. E.? (Veneto/Venice?)

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=1433&CollID=18&NStart=173].

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.

C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1968), nos. 3762-68, especially no. 3766, from Venice, 1471.

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), no. 496.

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: The Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 134.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Julius Frontinus, Sextus, c 30-104,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121209098,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12349897
Ortinus, Petrus Leo, scribe, 15th century
W Turner and Son, 19th century