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Burney MS 175

Record Id:

040-002237056

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000df

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 175

Title:

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae

Scope & Content:

List of chapters (ff. 1r-2v); Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 3r-200v), followed without break (ff. 201r-202v) by the preface.

Decoration:

Attributed by de la Mare perhaps to Cristoforo de Predis. Decorated with 1 large initial 'P'(lutarchus) with foliate decoration in the style of 'white vine', but coloured, and full borders incorporating putti, birds, animals, buildings, and the arms of Ludovico Maria Sforza flanked by letters spelling 'DVX LV[DOVICO] M[ARIA] BARI' inside a wreath in the lower border (f. 3r). Medium decorated initials at the beginning of each book (ff. 19r, 34v, 45r, 54v, 64v, 72r, 85r, 94v, 106v, 114r, 124r, 138v, 148r, 158r, 167r, 180r, 187r, 195r).

Headings in red, blue and gold; book numbers in the upper margin in pale red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237056

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 175 : Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0170]/040-002237056

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:

1460

End Date:

1470

Date Range:

c. 1465

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 355 x 235 mm (text space 235 x 135 mm), in 34 lines.

Foliation: ff. 202 (preceded and followed by unfoliated flyleaves).

Collation: i² (ff. 1-2), ii-xxi¹⁰ (ff. 3-202).

Script: Humanistic, written 'below top line'. Scribe: the main script is attributed to Antonio Tophio by both Fairbank (see Fairbank 1965, pp. 8-14) and de la Mare (see de la Mare 1983, pp. 399-400); Ruth Barbour further noted that the Greek appears to be in the same hand as Tophio’s Greek colophon in Montpellier, Faculté de Médecine, ms. 353 (according to the unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare).

Binding: Post-1600. French red morocco; gilt spine; marbled endpapers; gilt edges over red and green speckling; 18th century.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central (Rome).

Provenance:

Unidentified owner: with his overpainted arms, perhaps paly, gules and an uncertain tincture (f. 3r), perhaps the same as in Cambridge, University Library, MS. Add. 4095 (written in Rome in 1466), by the same scribe and illuminator, and Milan, Bibl. Ambrosiana, A 243 inf., according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.

Ludovico Maria Sforza (b. 1451, d. 1508), after he became Duke of Bari in 1479: with his arms over those of the former owner, flanked by letters spelling ‘DVX LV[DOVICO] M[ARIA] BARI’ (f. 3r).

? Guillaume de Rochefort (d. 1492) and Gui de Rochefort (d. 1507), Chancellors of France: inscribed with a long note in defective Latin, apparently dated 1510 (corrected from 1540) (f. 2v), apparently written by a descendant who signs the note 'Rochefort'.

Franciscus Töpsl (b. 1711, d. 1796), Provost of the Canons Regular at Polling, in the diocese of Augsburg: his large elaborate bookplate on inside of front cover with legends including ‘Franciscus praepositus Cann Regg: in Polling. Anno 1744’ (as illustrated in van Dülmen 1967, p. 362).

Unidentified French bookseller(?), 19th century: inscribed with notes in French, in pencil (verso of the first flyleaf).

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.

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=7307&CollID=18&NStart=175].

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, pl. 4.

W. R. Tymms and M. D. Wyatt, The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (London: Day and Sons, 1860; repr. Studio Editions, 1987), pl. XV.8.

L. Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque [Impériale] Nationale: Étude sur la formation de ce dépôt 3 vols (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1868-1881), I (1868), p. 138.

A. Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), p. 19, no. 281.

É. Pellegrin, La bibliothèque des Visconti et des Sforza ducs de Milan, au XVe siècle, Publications de l’Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, 5 (Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1955), p. 365.

A. Fairbank, ‘Antonio Tophio’, Journal of the Society of Italic Handwriting, 45 (1965), pp. 8-14 (p. 8 and pls 1-2).

R. van Dülmen, Propst Franziskus Töpsl (1711-1796) und das Augustiner-Chorherrenstift Polling (Kallmünz, 1967), p. 362.

J. J. G. Alexander, ‘A MS of Petrarch’s Rime and Trionfi (V&A MS. L101-1947)’, Victoria and Albert Museum Yearbook, 2 (1970), pp. 27-40 (pp. 34 and 39 n. 35).

A. C. de la Mare, ‘Script and Manuscripts in Milan Under the Sforzas’, Milano nell’ età di Ludovico il Moro: atti del convegno internazionale, 28 febbraio - 4 marzo 1983 (Milan: Rizzoli, 1983), pp. 399-408 (pp. 399-400 and n. 15).

A. C. de la Mare, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', in Minatura fiorentina del rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed by A. Garzelli and A. C. de la Mare, Inventari e cataloghi toscani, 18-19, 2 vols ([Florence]: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), I, pp. 395-421 (p. 439 n. 141).

P. 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. 134.

A. de la Mare, 'Bartolomeo Sanvito da Padova, copista e miniatore', in Giordana Canova Mariani and others, eds., Parole dipinte: La miniatura a Padova dal Medioevo al Settecento (Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 1999), pp. 495-511 (p. 499).

P. Binski and S. Panayotova (eds.), The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), p. 345.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gellius, Aulus, author and grammarian, c 125-after 180
Predis, Cristoforo, illuminator, c 1440-1486
Rochefort, Guillaume, Chancellor of France, 1433-c 1492
Rochefort, Guy, Chancellor of France, 1447-1507
Sforza, Ludovico Maria, Duke of Bari and Milan, il Moro, 1452-1508
Tophio, Antonio, scribe, 16th century
Töpsl, Franziscus, Provost of the Canons Regular at Polling, 1711-1796