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Burney MS 182

Record Id:

040-002237063

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000e6

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 182

Title:

Horace, Ars Poetica; Epistles; with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses

Scope & Content:

Horace, Ars Poetica (ff. 1r-9r); Epistles (ff. 9r-35r); with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses. Followed by two more lines of erased rubric, and an added prayer, inc. Omnipotens eterne deus sensuum illuminator et sacramentorum revelator, and a further erasure.

Decoration:

Decorated with four-line painted foliate initials (ff. 1r, 9r, 26v); two- or three-line initials in red with blue penwork, or vice versa, at the start of each Epistle; marginal drawings include a seated male figure (f. 3v), a dog’s head (f. 17v), a bird in a tree (f. 19r), and other designs; paraphs in red or blue.

Each verse starts on a new line with an initial stroked in red; above these columns of capital letters is usually a decorative motif.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237063

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 182 : Horace, Ars Poetica; Epistles; with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0177]/040-002237063

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 215 x 135 mm (text space 155 x 75 mm), in 29 lines. Ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. vi + 40 (ff. i-vi and 37-40 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-69.

Collation: i-iv⁸ (ff. 1-32), v⁴ (ff. 33-36). Catchwords enframed in a cartouche, sometimes on a handle held by a hand.

Script: Written in round gothic script.

Binding: Post-1600. 19th-century Burney binding of polished diced calf.

Flyleaves with watermark of 'W. Turner & Son'.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Inscribed with a four-line verse: 'Quis scrisit [sic] scribat semper cum domino uiuat / … / Finito libro referans gratia christo', 14th century (f. 36v).

? Unidentified notary, 14th century or 15th century: a notary's mark has a human face and the name 'Pascalis' (f. 30v); numerous pages have marginal marks similar to notaries' marks, and a former flyleaf has three large ones (f. 36v); a flyleaf inscription is perhaps a notary's pen-trial: 'In no(mi)ne d(omi)ni Mill(es)i(m) duce(n)to p(ri)ma juni(?)' (f. 35v, fore-edge, erased).

'N^o. 59', 18th century? (f. 1r).

Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1735 d. 1785), of Venice: inscription '7938', f. 1r, top left, corresponding to his inventory number, see Morelli 1787, p. 360: his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12844, bought by Edwards for £1 2s.; inscribed '1.2.0' (f. 1r, top right, cf. Burney MS 176 etc.).

James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller.

? John Haddon Hindley (b. 1765, d. 1827), orientalist: perhaps his sale, Leigh & Sotheby, 4 March 1793, lot 1193, bought by Walker for 9s. 6d.

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=1435&CollID=18&NStart=182].

Publications:

Iacobo Morelli, Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 360.

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:

Edwards, James, bookseller of London, 1756-1816
Hindley, John Hadden, orientalist, 1765-1827
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
Pinelli, Maffeo, of Venice, book-collector, 1736-1785
W Turner and Son, 19th century