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Burney MS 195

Record Id:

040-002237076

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000f3

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 195

Title:

Juvenal, Satires

Scope & Content:

Juvenal, Satires (ff. 2r-78v), the order of the last two reversed.

Decoration:

Decorated sporadically with red initials, the first with crude pink ornament (f. 2r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237076

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 195 : Juvenal, Satires

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0190]/040-002237076

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper

Dimensions: 210 x 150 mm (text space 135 x 90 mm), in 25 lines. Ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. v + 95 (ff. i-v, 90-95 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-165.

Collation: Uncertain, perhaps: i-ii¹⁰ (ff. 2-21), iii-viii¹⁰ (ff. 22-81), ix⁸ (ff. 82-89). Vertical and horizontal catchwords.

Script: Written 'below top line' in humanistic script, spaces left for headings.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of blind-tooled diced polished calf; flyleaves with watermarks 'E & P / 1805' (cf. Burney MS 220), and 'G R' below a fleur-de-lis topped with a coronet.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Inscribed ‘hic juuenalis (con?)stant ex xv saturis(?) et est p(at)ri Laureanj Laurenti filius mag[?]’ (f. 1r), and annotated by several other hands with pen-trials, in the 15th century, including the first line of Martial, Epigrams, 12.42 (f. 1r; the whole epigram is added by the same hand in the lower margin of. f. 6v), and a few words and phrases in Greek (ff. 1r, 89v).

Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice: inscription ‘7942’, altered to ‘7941’ (f. 1r), no. 7941 in the 1787 Pinelli catalogue (see Morelli 1787, p. 359); lot 12847 in the 1789 Pinelli sale catalogue, bought by Edwards for 18s.

James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller: possibly to be identified with his catalogue, 1790, no. 386.

John Haddon Hindley (b. 1765, d. 1827), orientalist: perhaps his sale catalogue, 1793, lot 1192, bought by Egerton for 3s.

John Egerton (d. 1795), possibly his sale catalogue, 1794, lot 3841.

Inscribed ‘18/-’ (f. 1r, top right).

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:

Iacobo Morelli, Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, p. 359, no. 7941.

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.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Edwards, James, bookseller of London, 1756-1816
Egerton, John, bookseller, d 1795
Hindley, John Hadden, orientalist, 1765-1827
Junius Juvenalis, Decimus, Late 1st century-Early 2nd century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000399077077,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/83985148
Pinelli, Maffeo, of Venice, book-collector, 1736-1785