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Burney MS 191

Record Id:

040-002237072

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000ef

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 191

Title:

Juvenal, Satires; preceded by various texts

Scope & Content:

Juvenal, Satires (ff. 3r-81v), densely annotated throughout by more than one humanistic hand; preceded by anonymous distich on love (f. 1r); excerpt from Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 19.9.12 (f. 2r); anonymous verses in praise of Francis, Duke of St. Angelo, son of Ferdinand I, king of Naples, inc. Francisce Aragonum soboles mitissima regum / Quem dedit ęthereo Iuppiter ipse throno (f. 2r); paraphrase of Cicero, De Oratore, 1.13 (f. 2r); excerpts from Valerius Maximus, Epigrammata, 12; Cicero, Ad Quintum, 1.7; and a list of the seven islands of Sicily (f. 2v).

Probably formerly bound with Burney MS 183. The end of the volume has the same ruling pattern, manner of ruling, and number of lines as the beginning of Burney MS 183; inscriptions on ff. 1r and 2r are in the same hand as Burney MS 183 f. 44r; Burney MS 183 ff. 10-42 are by the same scribe as the present volume.

Spaces left for initials.

Headings in pale red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237072

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 191 : Juvenal, Satires; preceded by various texts

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0186]/040-002237072

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1464

End Date:

1464

Date Range:

1464

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 205 x 140 mm (text space 135 x 70 mm), in 24 or 26 lines. Ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. iii + 85 (ff. i-iii, 84-85 are flyleaves; f. 1 is parchment). Former pagination 1-131.

Collation: Bound too tight to allow collation; vertical catchwords suggest it is i¹² (ff. 2-13), ii¹⁶ (ff. 14-29), iii-vi¹² (ff. 30-77), vii^six(structure uncertain; ff. 78-83).

Script: Written 'above top line' in humanistic script.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of polished brown calf.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Inscribed with colophon: 'Die xxv nouembris hora tertia noctis Mo cccco lxiiij pontificatus sanctissimi domini nostri domini pauli diuina prouidentia pape secundi anno eius primo' (f. 81v).

Erased two-line ownership(?) note (f. 2r, lower margin).

Sold anonymously at 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.

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.

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, p. 97 no. 500, II, pl. 663.

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. 134.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Francis, Duke of St. Angelo; son of Ferdinand I, King of Naples, 1461-1486
Gellius, Aulus, author and grammarian, c 125-after 180
Junius Juvenalis, Decimus, Late 1st century-Early 2nd century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000399077077,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/83985148
Maximus, Valerius, fl 14-37
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600

Related Archive Descriptions:

Burney MS 183