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Burney MS 198

Record Id:

040-002237079

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000f6

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 198

Title:

Livy, Ab Urbe Condita; with Tables of Donato degli Albanzani

Scope & Content:

Livy, Ab Urbe Condita (ff. 4r-102v, 106r-194v, 197r-210v, and 210v-265v); with Tables of Donato degli Albanzani preceding each Decade (ff. 1r-2v, 103r-105v, 195r-196v); and Lucii Annaei Flori Epitome libri xxxiii Titi Livii (f. 210v), in the margin next to the heading inscribed 'Liber xxxiii^us deficit nec alibi reperitur periit credo cum reliquis.'

Decoration:

29 miniatures, in green and yellow camaïeu with red, mostly divided into two or more compartments, accompanied by 29 large initials in colours and gold (ff. 4r, 15r, 26r, 39r, 49v, 59r, 67v, 75v, 84r, 93v, 106r, 115r, 124v, 133v, 141v, 150v, 160v, 170v, 180r, 187r, 197r, 204v, 210v, 219r, 226v, 233r, 242r, 251v, 260r). Small initials alternately blue with red pen-flourishing, or red with purple pen-flourishing. Three partial borders incorporating the arms of Cardinal Pietro Riario, at the beginning of each Decade (ff. 4r, 106r, 197r), the first with putti, added between 1471-1474, perhaps in Rome.

Headings in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237079

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 198 : Livy, Ab Urbe Condita; with Tables of Donato degli Albanzani

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0193]/040-002237079

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1395

End Date:

1405

Date Range:

c 1400

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 350 x 235 mm (text space 245 x 170 mm), in two columns of 58 lines. Ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. ii + 267 + 3* + 102* + 105* + 194* + 196* + 196** (ff. i-ii and 267 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-543.

Collation: based partly on catchwords and leaf-signatures: i4 (ff. 1-3*), ii-x¹⁰ (ff. 4-102*), xi⁴ (ff. 103-105*), xii-xix¹⁰ (ff. 106-194*), xx4 (ff. 195-196**), xxi-xxviii¹⁰ (ff. 197-266).

Script: Written 'below top line' in gothic script.

Binding: Post-1600. Typical Askew binding of diced calf, with the usual 'palmette and fleur-de-lys' gilt roll, marbled endpapers; edges gauffered and gilt; rebacked.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy N. E.? (perhaps Padua, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library).

Provenance:

Owned by, and probably written for, Lodovico da Sambonifacio (d. 1463?): inscribed ‘No(ta) q(uod) hoc no(n) eueniet | m(ih)i L. de s(an)c(t)o bonifatio’ (f. 114v; outer margin).

Owned by Cardinal Pietro Riario (b. 1445, d. 1474), after 1471: with his arms (or, in chief azure a rose or, surmonted by a cardinal’s hat; ff. 4r, 106r, 197r).

? Iacopo Piccolomini (b. 1422, d. 1479), member of the household of Pope Pius II (d. 1464), and bishop of Lucca from 1470: with an eight-line inscription including ‘Dum vixi Iacobus Piccolomini domus papa Pius …’ (f. i recto, under the marbled endpaper, legible from the reverse using a mirror).

Anthony Askew, (b. 1722, d. 1772), physician and book collector: his sale, Leigh and Sotheby, 7 March 1785, lot 480, bought by Gough for £11 11s.

Richard Gough (b. 1735, d. 1809), antiquary: his sale, Leigh and Sotheby, 5 April 1810, lot 4233, bought by Burney for £17 17s.

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.? (perhaps Padua, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library).

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=18497&CollID=18&NStart=198].

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. 57 and illustration.

W. R. Tymms and M. D. Wyatt, The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (London: Day and Sons, 1860; repr. Studio Editions, 1987), pl. XV.3.

Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 14.

Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra, (Turin: Roux, 1890), no. 285.

G. Billanovich, 'Petrarch and the Textual Tradition of Livy', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 14 (1951), pp. 137-208 (pp. 173-74).

T. A. Dorey, 'Livy XXI-XXV: Petrarch and the Codices Deteriores', Euphrosyne: Revista de Filologia Classica, n.s. 3 (1969), pp. 59-72 (p. 63).

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.

Michael D. Reeve, 'The Place of P in the Stemma of Livy 1-10', in Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin Classics: Production and Use, ed. by Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel and Margaret M. Smith (Leiden: Anderson-Lovelace and the Red Gull Press, 1996), pp. 75-90 (p. 89).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Albanzani, Donato, Italian humanist and grammarian, c 1328-1411
Ammanati, Jacopo, Cardinal, 1422-1479
Askew, Anthony, physician and book collector, 1722-1774,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061332085,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/60017882
Florus, Lucius Annaeus, Roman historian, Early 2nd century
Gough, Richard, antiquary, 1735-1809
Livius Patavinus, Titus, 59 BC-17,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122834055,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/99942145
Riario, Pietro, Cardinal, Archbishop of Florence, 1445-1474,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061346460,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6012043
Sambonifacio, Ludovico, d 1463?