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Burney MS 176

Record Id:

040-002237057

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000e0

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 176

Title:

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae

Scope & Content:

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 1r-172r), followed (ff. 172r-173v) without break by the preface; added anonymous alphabetical index, on paper (ff. 174r-189v).

Decoration:

Decorated with a faceted initial enmeshed in knotwork designs, in colours on a gold field with cusped edges (f. 2r), the other books usually with a six- to eight-line initial in gold with white vine-stem ornament on a dark red, blue, and green ground (ff. 15v, 29r, 37v, 45v, 54v, 61r, 72r, 80v, 90v, 97v, 106r, 118r, 125v, 133v, 141v, 153r, 159r, 166v); three-line initials at the start of the capitula lists in gold on red and blue grounds; two-line initials alternately plain red or blue.

Headings in dark red-purple capitals.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237057

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 176 : Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0171]/040-002237057

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment and paper 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:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment and paper.

Dimensions: 300 x 185 mm (text space 200 x 110 mm), in 37 lines. Ruled in brown leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. iii + 193 (ff. i-iii, 190-193 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-346.

Collation: i-xvii¹⁰ (ff. 1-170), xviii^4-1 (last leaf missing, probably blank; ff. 171-173), xix¹⁰ (ff. 174-183), xx⁶(ff. 184-189). Catchwords.

Script: Humanistic cursive, written 'below top line'. Greek passages written in spaces left by the main scribe, and glossed in Latin in the adjacent margin in pale red.

Binding: Post-1600. 18th-century binding of dark purple morocco; the edges of the leaves gilt; the first leaves with holes at the fore-edge caused by the nails of a pair of clasps of a former binding.

Flyleaves watermarked with the arms of Amsterdam and the letters ‘J T’.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, N. E.? (Verona?)

Provenance:

Annotated by a number of 15th- (and 16th-?)century hands, one of whom uses a distinctive manicule, sometimes upside down, with an elaborate cuff and double lines to mark two joints of the pointing index finger (e.g. ff. 5r, 7r); another writes a minute script (e.g. f. 34v), refers to other works by chapter number (including Lorenzo Valla’s ‘In elegantiis’, f. 76v), and has inserted an inscribed slip of paper (f. 26r); a third writes Greek (e.g. f. 2v).

Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735, d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7943', f. 1r, upper left corner, corresponding to his inventory number, see Morelli 1787, no. 7943; his sale, Edwards, 2 March 1789, lot 12849, bought by Edwards for £5 5s.

James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller: his sale catalogue 1790 no. 381; inscribed '10.10' in pencil (f. ii recto; cf. Burney MSS 15 and 182).

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.? (Verona?)

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=1460&CollID=18&NStart=176].

Publications:

Iacobo Morelli, Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7943; his sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12849, bought by Edwards for £5 5s.

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. 282.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Edwards, James, bookseller of London, 1756-1816
Gellius, Aulus, author and grammarian, c 125-after 180
Pinelli, Maffeo, of Venice, book-collector, 1736-1785