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Burney MS 181
- Record Id:
- 040-002237062
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000e5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 181
- Title:
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Horace, Odes; Epodes; Carmen Saeculare; preceded by the Life of Horace, attributed here to Petrus Crinitus
- Scope & Content:
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Horace, Odes (ff. 5r-78v); Epodes (ff. 79r-93v); Carmen Saeculare (ff. 94r-95v); preceded by the Life of Horace, attributed here to Petrus Crinitus, inc. Q Horatius Flaccus in Venusio Apuliae oppido natus est (ff. 1r-4r).
Decoration:
Decorated predominantly in dull colours with six-line faceted initials in shell gold on a square ground of purple-grey, brown, shell gold, green, with shell gold foliate ornament (ff. 1r, 5r, 27r, 41r, 65r, 79r), or on a bright red ground with green foliate ornament (f. 94r); two-line initials in shell gold on square grounds alternating blue, red, purple-grey, green, or grey, with gold foliate ornament.
Perhaps by the same illuminator as Add. MS 31844.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237062 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 181 : Horace, Odes; Epodes; Carmen Saeculare; preceded by the Life of Horace, attributed here to Petrus Crinitus - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0176]/040-002237062
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1460
- End Date:
- 1540
- Date Range:
- Late 15th century-Early 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 165 x 105 mm (text space 115 x 60 mm), in 23 lines. Perhaps ruled with eleven- and twelve-nibbed ruling instruments (see ff. v recto-vi verso and f. 4r, respectively).
Foliation: ff.viii + 100 + 95*, 95**, 95*** (ff. i-iii, 97-98, and 100 are paper flyleaves; ff.iv-viii, 95-96 are original; f. 99 is Burney's table of contents). Burney pagination 1-190.
Collation: Collation uncertain, perhaps i12-3 (last 3 leaves cancelled; ff. iv-viii, 1-4), ii-xi8 (ff. 5-92), xii8-1 (last leaf cancelled; ff. 93-96). Catchwords and leaf-signatures immediately below the lowest line of writing.
Script: Humanistic cursive ('a chancery type italic script' according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library), written 'below top line'; headings written in square capitals; running titles in brown ink 'above top line'.
Binding: Post-1600. 19th-century Burney binding of polished calf; rebacked 1950; the edges of the leaves gilt; the lower edge of the leaves inscribed 'Orasio'(?).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
Pentrials imitating 'roman' script (ff. 96r-96v); erasure on f. iv recto; no other obvious signs of pre-Burney ownership.
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.
- 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=1487&CollID=18&NStart=181].
- Publications:
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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:
- Crinito, Pietro, Florentine humanist scholar, 1475-1507
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