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Burney MS 174
- Record Id:
- 040-002237055
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000de
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 174
- Title:
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Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae
- Scope & Content:
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Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 2r-237v); followed without break (ff. 237v-239v) by the preface.
Decoration:
Probably by ‘Benedictus’, a follower of Jacopo da Fabriano, who decorated London, V&A Museum, L.935-1951, and who signed the illumination of Vatican, Barb. Lat. 180, dated 1464, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Decorated on the first page of the main text with an eleven-line initial in gold, with white vine-stem ornament on a pink, green, and blue ground, with two birds and two putti, with a matching full border incorporating numerous putti and a roundel depicting Hercules, the lower border incorporating an escutcheon with the arms of Maffei of Volterra: azure, the forequarters of a stag or (f. 3v); similar eight-line white vine-stem initials at the start of each book (ff. 21v, 40r, 52r, 62v, 74r, 83v, 98r, 108r, 121v, 130v, 141v, 158v, 169v, 181v, 193v, 210r, 219r, 229v); two-line initials alternately red or blue, or in the pink of the headings.
Headings, marginal headings, and book numbers in the upper margin in pale red; spaces for headings often remain blank.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237055 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 174 : Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0169]/040-002237055
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
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: 295 x 200 mm (text space 205 x 110 mm), in 36 lines.
Foliation: ff. ii + 242 (ff. i-ii, 1, and 240-242 are paper and parchment flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-476.
Collation: i-xxiii10 (ff. 2-231), xxiv8 (ff. 232-239). Vertical catchwords.
Script: Written ‘above top line’ in humanistic script; Greek sometimes inserted by a variety of mediocre hands in spaces left by the main scribe.
Binding: Post-1600. Typical Askew binding of brown diced leather, the covers with the usual 'palmette and fleurs-de-lis' gilt roll, over thick medieval? wood boards; marbled endpapers, and parchment flyleaves; edges gilt; rebacked 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central (Rome).
Provenance:
Annotated by several 15th-century hands, one of whom marks passages which refer to other works.
Mario Maffei (b. 1463, d. 1537), with his arms (f. 3v) and traces of the usual ‘De figli …’ inscription (f. 2r, lower margin, erased; cf. Burney MS 214); see Ullman 1955, p. 374, and Ruysschaert 1958, p. 323.
Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: bound for him; his sale, Leigh and Sotheby, 7 March 1785, lot 427, bought by [Michael] Wodhull for £3 13s. 6d., on behalf of(?) the Duke of Grafton.
Augustus Henry FitzRoy (b. 1735, d. 1811), 3rd duke of Grafton, politician: inscribed 'D. of Grafton / 1785.' (f. 2r), 'at Askew's Sale. / b-lb-i', using his price-code (f. 1v), and '161' (f. 1v), in pencil, cf. Burney MSS 158, 167, 221; his anonymous sale, Evans, 6 June 1815, lot 320 (inscribed '320', f. i verso), bought by Burney.
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 (Rome).
- 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=1419&CollID=18&NStart=174].
- 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. 280.
B. L. Ullman, 'Codices Maffeiani', in Studies in the Italian Renaissance (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1955), pp. 373-82 (p. 374 no. 7).
José Ruysschaert, 'Recherche des deux bibliothèques romaines Maffei des XVe et XVIe siècles', La Bibliofilia, 60 (1958), 306-33 (p. 323 no. 24).
- 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
Benedictus, illuminator; follower of Jacobo da Fabriano, 15th century
FitzRoy, Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister, 28 Sep 1735-14 Mar 1811
Gellius, Aulus, author and grammarian, c 125-after 180
Maffei, Mario, of Volterra; Bishop of Aquino; Bishop of Cavaillon, 1463-1537