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Burney MS 187

Record Id:

040-002237068

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000eb

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 187

Title:

Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

Scope & Content:

Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi (ff. 2r-168r).

Decoration:

2 large initials, in an unusual variant of the white vine style (ff. 2r, 2v). Smaller, but broadly similar, initials at the start of the remaining books, in unusual colours and on unusually shaped grounds.

Spaces left for headings.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237068

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 187 : Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0182]/040-002237068

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 265 x 175 mm (text space 170 x 95 mm), in 26 lines.

Foliation: ff. v + 173 (ff. i-v, 169-173 are flyleaves). Ruled in blind.

Collation: i¹⁰⁺¹ (1st leaf inserted; ff. 1-11), ii-xvi¹⁰ (ff. 12-161), xvii^8-1 (structure uncertain, probably the last leaf is missing, probably blank; ff. 162-168). Catchwords. Leaf signatures.

Script: Written 'below top line' in humanistic script; perhaps by the scribe of BL, Additional MS. 12012, and Bodleian Library, MSS. Canon. Class. Lat. 61 and Add. C. 283 (on which see Pächt and Alexander 1970, p. 39).

Binding: Post-1600. Untypical Burney(?) binding of brown leather with pale brown endpapers; the lower edges of the leaves inscribed 'Iustinus'. 19th-century binder's pencil letters A-R on the first recto of each gathering.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, N. E.(?) (Ferrara?)

Provenance:

Unidentified owner, 1468: inscribed 'x octo 1468 S(?)' at the end of the text, but not in the same script (f. 168r; see Watson 1979, p. 166, where he rejects this as the date of the manuscript).

Ludovico Carbone (b. 1430, d. 1485), of Ferrara: with his numerous marginal annotations, mainly in red or pink ink, but also in green or blue-green (cf. his annotations in Additional MS 6028, and several Bodleian MSS., on which see Pächt and Alexander 1970, nos. 223, 381, 408, etc.).

Jacopo Sacrati (d. 1506?), of Ferrara, ambassador to Florence: 'Justinus mei Iacobi ['Iacobi' over an erasure] de sacrato' (f. 1r); with the added arms of the Sacrati family of Ferrara (f. 2r; cf. Additional MS 6028); and with a symbol, perhaps an 'E', 'f', 'J', or 't' (f. 1r; as in Additional MS 6028 and Harley MS 2764, both owned by Sacrati), and '6', lower down (cf. Additional MS 6028, f. ii recto, which has '2').

Unidentified owner, 17th century?: inscribed ‘Micel[?…] Bou[...]di’(?) (f. 1r).

Inscribed in Greek: 'ἡ φιλοχρημοσύνη μήτηρ κακότητος ἁπάσης' (f. 1r).

Unidentified owner: perhaps in the anonymous sale at Christie's, 19 May 1803, lot 49, 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, N. E.(?) (Ferrara?)

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=1569&CollID=18&NStart=187].

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. 56.

José Ruysschaert, 'Recherche des deux bibliothèques romaines Maffei des XVe et XVIe siècles', La Bibliofilia, 60 (1958), 306-33 (p. 325).

Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, ed. by Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, 3 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966-1973), II (1970), nos. 382, 383.

Andrew 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, p. 166.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Carbone, Ludovico, humanist scholar, 1430-1485
Junianus Justinus, Marcus, Mid-2nd century-Late 4th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121244766,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/24616821
Sacrati, Family
Sacrato, Jacopo, Ambassador from Ferrara to Florence, d 1506?