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Burney MS 186

Record Id:

040-002237067

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000ea

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 186

Title:

Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi; and other anonymous texts

Scope & Content:

Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi (ff. 1r-115v); Anonymous, De Troia, inc. Anno centesimo quinquagesimo octavo ab aquarum undatione usque ad civitatis Troie edificationem (ff. 116r-126r); an abridged version of the Historia destructionis Lunensis civitatis, inc. Cum in regno regis Divismare in expeditionem armorum esset gens nobilissima ac proba (ff. 126r-127r); remarks on aqua vitae (ff. 128r-128v, 131r); praise for knowledge and antiquity (f. 129r); discussion about Lucca, inc. Lucana civitas nobilis et famosa per orbem, sive ipsius edificiorum fastigia (ff. 129r-130r).

Decoration:

Decorated with plain blue initials (usually red from f. 115v).

Some headings in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237067

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 186 : Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi; and other anonymous texts

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0181]/040-002237067

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1440

Date Range:

Early 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 280 x 205 mm (text space 180 x 105 mm), usually 30 lines, but variable. Ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. ii + 135 (ff. i-ii, 133-135 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-259.

Collation: Based on catchwords: i-xi¹⁰ (ff. 1-110), thereafter uncertain.

Script: Written 'above top line' in gothic script by three(?) scribes, mainly (ff. 1r-115r) by Johannes Stephani de Colognora, with his colophon.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of polished calf; rebacked.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, N. (Forlì).

Provenance:

Inscribed with a colophon of Johannes Stephani de Colognora: 'Explicit Liber Quadragesimus Quartus et ultimus Iustini abreviatoris Trogi Pompei hystorici. Que(m) ego Iohan(n)es Stephani de Colognora lucan(ensis) [i.e. Lucca] ciuis scripsi man(u) p(ro)p(r)ia [ma crossed through] i(n) Ciuitate furluij In domo Nofrij de tale(n)sis . Regnante M(agnifico) d(omi)no Ceccho de Ordelaffis. An(no) d(omini) mcccc^o tertio et die Quintadecima Noue(m)bris. Gra(ti)as Altissimo deo ei(us)q(ue) filio et spi(rit)ui s(an)c(t)o q(ui) regnat trinus & vnus cu(m) eius Gloriosa matre virgine Maria p(er) i(n)finita secula seculo(rum)' (f. 115v).

Inscribed, 15th century, 'Ioh(ann)es de ludenborg … et iustinum faciat' (f. 131v, top left).

Frequent marginal headings, mainly by one 15th/16th-century hand.

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, N. (Forlì).

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), pp. 55-56.

H. L. D. Ward (and J. A. Herbert), Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I (1883), pp. 66-67.

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, no. 499, and II, pl. 308.

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997), IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 132.

Marvin L. Colker, 'A previously unpublished history of the Trojans', The Journal of Medieval Latin, 8 (1998), pp. 80-121 (pp. 89-93).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Junianus Justinus, Marcus, Mid-2nd century-Late 4th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121244766,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/24616821
Stephani, Johannes, de Colognora; scribe, 15th century