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Burney MS 180

Record Id:

040-002237061

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000e4

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 180

Title:

Horace, Odes; Epodes; Carmen Saeculare; Ars Poetica; Satires; Epistles

Scope & Content:

Horace, Odes (ff. 1r-63v); Epodes (ff. 63v-76v); Carmen Saeculare (ff. 76v-78r); Ars Poetica (ff. 78v-88r); Satires (ff. 88r-130v); Epistles (ff. 130v-160v).

Decoration:

Decorated with a partial border rising from a gold vase, and a matching lower border with an almond-shaped shield, whose original arms (possibly a yellow? lion rampant?) have been effaced and replaced in ink with four crescents (f. 1r); four-line white vine-stem initials on a blue, green, and red ground (ff. 1r, 19r, 31r, 51v, 63v, 76v, 78v, 88r, 108v, 130v), one similar two-line initial (f. 151r); other two-line initials in plain blue.

Guide letters.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237061

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 180 : Horace, Odes; Epodes; Carmen Saeculare; Ars Poetica; Satires; Epistles

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0175]/040-002237061

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1430

End Date:

1470

Date Range:

Mid 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 205 x 125 mm (text space 140 x 75 mm), in 25 lines. Prickings in all three outer margins.

Foliation: ff. vii + 167 (ff. i-vii and 161-165, 167 are flyleaves; f. 166 is Burney's table of contents). Burney pagination 1-320.

Collation: i-xvi¹⁰ (ff. 1-160). Catchwords at the edge of the lower margin, often cropped. Leaf signatures.

Script: Humanistic cursive, written 'above top line'.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of polished brown calf; the edges of the leaves gauffered and gilt. The spine with five false bands.

The front flyleaves with watermarks '1 / 1814' and 'Ruse & Turners / 1805' (cf. Burney MSS 236, 249 etc.).

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).

Provenance:

Inscribed 'Hic liber est [...] pe[…] \ olim / scriptus n(un)c eme(n)/datus Anno dni. Mccc[…]' in purple ink (f. 160v), apparently by the main scribe, who was also responsible for numerous annotations and emendations, especially to the rubrics, in the same purple ink.

Unidentified owners: original(?) arms effaced, perhaps argent a lion rampant?; over-drawn with four crescents, the tinctures not indicated (f. 1r).

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar, acquired at or after c. 1814 (the date of a watermark in the flyleaves).

Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.

Administrative Context:

Italy, Central (Florence).

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=1442&CollID=18&NStart=180].

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.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

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
Ruse and Turners, publishers, Kent, 19th century