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Burney MS 197

Record Id:

040-002237078

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000f5

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 197

Title:

Juvenal, Satires

Scope & Content:

Juvenal, Satires (ff. 1v-101r); the order of the last two reversed.

Decoration:

Decorated with three-line plain blue initials; some one-line initials in pink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237078

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 197 : Juvenal, Satires

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0192]/040-002237078

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: 200 x 125 mm (text space 125 x 70 mm), in 20 lines. Ruled in blind.

Foliation: ff. ii + 105 (ff. i-ii, 104-105 are flyleaves). Pre-Burney ink pagination. ff. 1 and 97-101 are 16th-century supply leaves.

Collation: i^8-1+1 (1st leaf lost and replaced; ff. 1-8), ii-xii⁸ (ff. 9-96), xiii^five (ff. 97-101). Quire signatures in the form of letters on the last recto of each quire, with a matching letter on the facing recto.

Script: Written 'above top line' in humanistic script, with large spaces for headings.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney(?) binding of brown calf.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).

Provenance:

Fairly heavily glossed by early hands in humanistic script.

Owned and partly written in italic script (ff. 1 and 97-101) by Ludovicus Gabriellius in the late 16th century: inscribed with his name (f. 1r) and colophon ‘Ludouicus Gabriellius i(n) proximo scripsit’ (f. 101r).

Inscribed by a second hand ‘Yhs M. 1583’ (f. 101v); and by a third ‘Hunc ipsum librum Idem Ludouicus nepos dulciss: | mihi Petro Martinotio auo amant. dono dedit, et gratis ag[… cropped] | 1594’.

Anonymous sale at Christie’s, 19 May 1803, lot 52, 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, Central (Florence).

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.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gabrielli, Ludovico, scribe, fl 16th century
Junius Juvenalis, Decimus, Late 1st century-Early 2nd century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000399077077,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/83985148