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Burney MS 178

Record Id:

040-002237059

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000e2

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 178

Title:

Selected works of Horace and other literary texts.

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1v-2r: Suetonius, Vita Horati, here attributed to Pier Candido Decembrio by a later hand: 'Est P. Candidi Oratii vita.' (cf. Munk Olsen, L’étude des auteurs classiques latins, I, p. 429 no. 108), begins 'Septuagesimo etatis anno...’ ends ‘...Acron tamen ceteris eruditius.’

ff. 2r-2v: Pseudo-Acro, Treatise on Horace’s metre, begins ‘Metrum Asclepiadeum constat spondeo duobus choriambis...' ends '...quia uno rogatu multa simul comprobat.’ (cf. Munk Olsen, L’étude, I, p. 430 no. 130).

ff. 3r-42r: Horace, Odes.

ff. 42r-50r: Horace, Epodes.

ff. 50r-51r: Horace, Carmen saeculare.

ff. 51r-57r: Horace, Ars poetica.

ff. 57r-76r: Horace, Epistles.

ff. 76r-101v: Horace, Sermones.

f. 102r: Vergil, Carmina duodecim sapientium. (‘Epitaphia super Virgilium facta a xii sapientibus(?).’), begins ‘Mantua me genuit Calabri rapuere tenet nunc...’ ends ‘...Per silvas per rus venit ad arma virum.’

f. 102v: pen trials

Decoration:

Decorated with three- to seven-line initials in blue with red penwork flourishing or vice versa. Line-fillers. The first letter of each line of verse set off to the left and stroked in red; headings and running titles in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237059

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 178 : Selected works of Horace and other literary texts.

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0173]/040-002237059

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1160

End Date:

1240

Date Range:

Late 12th century-Early 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 195 x 105 mm (text space 160 x 65 mm), in 40 lines. Ruled in blind.

Foliation: ff. vi + 108 (ff. i-vi, 103-106, and 108 are flyleaves; f. 107 is Burney's table of contents); 17th(?)-century foliation in black ink, 1-99.

Collation: i² (ff. 1-2); ii-xiii⁸ (ff. 3-98), xiv⁴ (ff. 99-102). Gatherings 2-13 with signatures .i.-.xii.

Script: Gothic, written 'above top line'.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of polished calf; rust-marks and holes on the first and last leaves suggest that a former binding had four corner-pieces on each cover, and a strap-and-pin clasp closing from the bottom to the top cover.

Endleaves watermarked 'W Turner & Son'.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

ff. 1v-2v added in humanistic script, 15th century.

Inscribed: ‘+ / Nil sine te / Cms alias foelix’ (?) / 1574’ (f. 2v) and ‘+ / Nil sine te / O.C.’ (f. 11r, alongside the same phrase in Odes 1.26).

Erased inscription: ‘Nam sine vicijs nemo nascit(ur)’ (f. 102v) a paraphrase of Sermonum 1.3.68.

Inscribed ‘Horatius’, 18th century? (f. 1r).

Unidentified owner: with his erased circular purple ink stamp (f. 1r).

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=1434&CollID=18&NStart=178].

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. 55.

B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), I, p. 429 no. 108 and p. 430 no. 130.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Acron, Helenius, commentator and grammarian, 2nd or 3rd 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
Suetonius Tranquillus, Caius, c 69-after 122,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121029695,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89599270
Vergilius Maro, Publius, 70 BC-19 BC,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000430695667
W Turner and Son, 19th century