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Burney MS 177
- Record Id:
- 040-002237058
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000e1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 177
- Title:
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Horace, Odes; Epodes; Carmen Saeculare; Ars Poetica; Epistles; Satires
- Scope & Content:
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Horace, Odes (ff. 1r-31v); Epodes (ff. 31v-36v); Carmen Saeculare (ff. 36v-37r); Ars Poetica (ff. 37r-42v); Epistles (ff. 42v-60r); Satires (ff. 60r-83v).
Decoration:
Decorated with a zoomorphic initial ‘M’ in the form of two birds drinking from a chalice (f. 1r), a large initial in red (f. 37r), a similar initial with purple, blue, and bright yellow in-filling (f. 42v), and a similar small initial (f. 60r).
Headings in red.
Numerous instructions to the rubricator survive.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237058 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 177 : Horace, Odes; Epodes; Carmen Saeculare; Ars Poetica; Epistles; Satires - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0172]/040-002237058
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 120 mm (text space 165 x 70 mm), in 32 lines. Ruled in blind. Prickings survive in the three outer margins.
Foliation: ff. vi + 89 + 84*, 84** (ff. i-vi, 87-89 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-166.
Collation: i-xi8 (ff. 1-86). The third gathering signed 'C'.
Script: Written 'above top line' in proto-gothic script; the Satires probably by a second scribe.
Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of polished calf, the front cover with the older Burney stamp (cf. Burney MSS 142, 168, 208).
Flyleaves with a watermark date of 1814.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (between Limoges and Moissac).
Provenance:
? The Cluniac abbey of Figeac, diocese of Cahors, France, 15th century: inscribed 'Iste liber est (con)uent(us) monasterii fig.' (f. 84r).
Unidentified owner: with his erased mark of ownership(?) (f. 1r, outer margin).
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar, probably acquired in 1814 or later (see Binding); perhaps acquired as part of a group with Burney MSS 142, 150, 168, and 208: their front covers all have 'Ex Bibliotheca / Caroli Burneii S.T.P.' blind-stamped underneath the British Museum's 'Codex / Burneianus' gilt stamp; several members of the group share other features.
Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.
- Administrative Context:
- France (between Limoges and Moissac).
- 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=1441&CollID=18&NStart=177].
- 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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Benedictine abbey of Figeac, diocese of Cahors, 15th century
Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, also known as Horace, 65 BC-8 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121452178,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100227522