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Burney MS 179

Record Id:

040-002237060

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000e3

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 179

Title:

Horace, Carmina; Carmen Saeculare; Epodes; Ars Poetica; Satires; Epistles; and Hymns to St Nicholas for Vespers, Matins, and Lauds

Scope & Content:

Horace, Carmina (ff. 1r-43r); Carmen Saeculare (ff. 43r-44r); Epodes (ff. 44r-52v); Ars Poetica (ff. 53r-59r); Satires (ff. 59v-87r); Epistles (ff. 87r-107v); followed by Hymns to St Nicholas for Vespers, Matins, and Lauds, added in cursive script, 13th century. inc. Pange lingua graciosi, Nicholai merita. | Gesta patris gloriosi, laudans laude debita (ff. 108r-108v) (cf. Blume and Dreves 1895, nos. 399, 400, 401).

Decoration:

Decorated with large initials in gold with arabesques in red, green, and blue (ff. 1r, 53r); large initials in blue with similar ornament (ff. 21r, 59v); alternate red or blue initials with penwork in the other colour.

Colour-notes in French ('a' for blue and 'r' for red; e.g. ff. 8v-12v, within the initial-space).

Headings in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237060

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 179 : Horace, Carmina; Carmen Saeculare; Epodes; Ars Poetica; Satires; Epistles; and Hymns to St Nicholas for Vespers, Matins, and Lauds

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0174]/040-002237060

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1150

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 260 x 160 mm (text space 200 x 75 mm), in 37 lines. Ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. vi + 114 (ff. 113-114 and a and b before f. i are British Museum flyleaves; ff. i-iv, 111-112 are 12th- to 18th-century parchment flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-216.

Collation: Uncertain: the volume was apparently originally in gatherings of eight leaves. 15th-century catchwords.

Script: Written 'above top line' in caroline script; ff. 6, 17, 19-20, 23-24, 31, 38-39, 41, 55-58, 70, 86-87 are replaced in gothic script, ff. 83, 99-100, 102-103, and 106 are replaced in humanistic script, 15th century, perhaps by Jean Lebègue. f. 108 is written in cursive script.

Binding: Post-1600. Typical Askew binding of diced calf, with the smaller version of the usual 'palmette and fleur-de-lys' gilt roll, marbled endpapers and parchment flyleaves; rebacked.

Custodial History:

Origin: France, S.?

Provenance:

? A religious house perhaps dedicated to St. Nicholas, 13th century: added hymns to Nicholas for Vespers, Matins, and Lauds (f. 108r-v).

Jean Lebègue (b. 1368, d. 1457), Parisian humanist: with his near-anagram motto 'A bel viegne' (f. 107v, erased), cipher 'V363A13' (f. 1r; cf. f. 101v, lower right corner), and other annotations (cf. Burney MS 136; cf. Hallaire 1954, 291-2 and pls. 32d-f, not mentioning the present manuscript).

Anthony Askew (b. 1722, d. 1772), physician and book collector: bound for him; his sale by Leigh and Sotheby, 7 March 1785, lot 470, bought by Monro for £3 3s.

John Monro (b. 1715, d. 1791), physician and specialist in insanity: his sale, Leigh and Sotheby, 23 April 1792, lot 3401.

Inscribed in pencil 'This copy was once the celebrated collector Dr Askew's' (f. ii recto) and 'I gave (?) 20 – 10 – 0 for this Ms' (f. 112v).

? James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller: with prices '£12.12-' in ink (f. ii recto) and '£5-5-0 J-J' in pencil (f. ii verso); cf. Burney MSS 176 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:

France, S.?

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=1568&CollID=18&NStart=179].

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.

C. Blume and G. M. Dreves, Analecta hymnica medii aevi, 55 vols (Leipzig: Fues's Verlag (R. Reisland), 1886-[1920?]), XIX (1895), nos. 399-401.

Elisabeth Hallaire, 'Quelques manuscrits de Jean Le Bègue', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 8 (1954), 291-2 and pls. 32d-f, not mentioning the present manuscript.

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
Edwards, James, bookseller of London, 1756-1816
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
Lebègue, Jean, Parisian humanist, 1368-1457
Monro, John, MD; physician and specialist in insanity, 1715-1791