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Burney MS 188

Record Id:

040-002237069

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000ec

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 188

Title:

Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

Scope & Content:

Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi (ff. 3r-142r).

Decoration:

1 large white vine initial in colours and gold, with a three-sided white vine border incorporating birds, and putti holding an escutcheon (the arms erased) (f. 3r). 1 large initial in colours and gold (f. 3v). Small initials in plain blue.

Prof. A. C. de la Mare dated this manuscript to the mid-15th century in unpublished notes kept at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, but as the scribe was born in 1452, it is unlikely to date before about 1465.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237069

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 188 : Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0183]/040-002237069

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1465

End Date:

1475

Date Range:

between 1465-1475

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 255 x 170 mm (text space 160 x 95 mm), in 28 lines. Ruled in blind.

Foliation: ff. 145 + 2* (ff. 1-2*, 143-145 are flyleaves, the first and last are paper). Burney pagination 1-279, in the lower corner.

Collation: i-xiv¹⁰ (ff. 3-142).

Script: Written 'below top line' in humanistic script, without headings, by Amerigo Corsini, with his colophon (f. 142r).

Binding: Post-1600. Typical Askew binding of diced calf with the usual 'palmette and fleur-de-lis' gilt roll; marbled endpapers; and parchment flyleaves.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).

Provenance:

Copied by the Florentine scribe Amerigo Corsini (b. 1452, d. 1501; active as a scribe by 1464, aged about 12), with his colophon: 'Haec iustini volumina amerigus corsinus transcripsit.' (f. 142r; see Dunston 1968, p. 48 no. 3 and pl. 10; and de la Mare 1985, p. 481 no. 3).

Unidentifed owner: his erased arms (f. 3r).

Anthony Askew (b. 1722, d. 1172), physician and book collector: bound for him; his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 475, bought by 'Lewes' for £1 5s; in the sale of Askew-Lewes lots appended to the sale of the library of Mr Edwards, 12 February 1787, lot 1500, bought by d'Eon for £2 8s.

Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée, Chevalier D'Éon de Beaumont in the French nobility (b. 1728, d. 1810), diplomatist and transvestite: inscription 'De la Bibliotheque de la Chevaliere d'Eon' (f. 2r), '£25. st.' in red (f. 2v); and with a ten-line note attributed to him (f. 1v); in his sale catalogue, part 4, 5 May 1791, lot 15 (described as 'olim Maffeianus', probably in error); and 12 February 1813, lot 9.

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, Central (Florence).

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=1570&CollID=18&NStart=188].

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.

Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra, (Turin: Roux, 1890), no. 283.

A. J. Dunston, 'Two Gentlemen of Florence: Amerigus and Philippus Corsinus', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 22 (1968), pp. 46-50 (p. 48 no. 3 and pl. 10).

Albinia de la Mare, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', in Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed. by Annarosa Garzelli, 2 vols, ([Florence]: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), I, pp. 395-574 (p. 481 no. 3).

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: The Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 134.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Askew, Anthony, physician and book collector, 1722-1774,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061332085,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/60017882
Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée, Chevalier, diplomat and spy, 1728-1810
Corsini, Amerigo, Florentine scribe, 1452-1501
Junianus Justinus, Marcus, Mid-2nd century-Late 4th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121244766,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/24616821