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Burney MS 183
- Record Id:
- 040-002237064
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000e7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 183
- Title:
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Horace, Ars Poetica; Epistles; with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses citing other authors
- Scope & Content:
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Horace, Ars Poetica, ending incomplete at line 409 with sine divite vena (ff. 1r-9r); Epistles, glosses occupy f. 9v (ff. 10r-42r); Ars Poetica, from line 410 to the end (ff. 42v-43v); with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses citing other authors.
Spaces for initials.
Probably formerly bound with Burney MS 191.
ff. 45 + i come from the end of a single volume, that has been divided into separate Burney MSS: 268 and 225.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237064 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 183 : Horace, Ars Poetica; Epistles; with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses citing other authors - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0178]/040-002237064
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Paper codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1471
- End Date:
- 1471
- Date Range:
- 1471
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 200 x 140 mm (text space 130 x 75 mm), in 24 lines (Ars Poetica) or 23 lines (Epistles).
Foliation: ff. ii + 49 + 43* (ff. i-ii, 47-49 are flyleaves).
Collation: i8 (ff. 1-8), ii-iv12 (ff. 9-43*), followed by one parchment and two old paper flyleaves (before the modern flyleaves). Vertical catchwords in the Epistles.
Script: Written 'above top line' in two humanistic scripts.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 2003; goat leather binding. Former Burney covers of polished brown calf kept separately.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, S.?
Provenance:
Cryptogram after explicit in the same hand as the text (f. 42r); cf. Burney MS 160.
Dated by the scribe ‘Finis in ludo politico 1471 3o no(nas) Iunia(nas)’ (f. 43v).
Inscribed in a neat humanistic script ‘Illme Princeps et domine mi pl(u)rimum honorande / Illmo Principi et domino Don Henrico de Aragonia / Marchionj Giraci [i.e. Gerace, Calabria] ac Regio locumtenenti g(e)n(er)ali in p(ro)uin/cia Calabrie Domino meo p(re)cipuo.’ (f. 44r).
Perhaps owned by the Benedictine abbey of S. Salvatore, Sorrento: inscribed in similar script ‘Surrenti in Monasterio Saluatoris / Dis manibus / Rubrię ephesiae / .p. rubrius eutychus / patronae’, below which is four lines of verse in a neater hand, inc. Parthenope subitos subducent aequora cursus (f. 44v).
Inscribed ‘B’ (f. 44v; cf. Burney MS 172).
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, 19 May 1803, lot 51, bought by Burney.
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, S.?
- 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.
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, 97 no. 497, and II, pl. 749.
- 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 - Related Archive Descriptions:
- Burney MS 191