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Burney MS 200
- Record Id:
- 040-002237081
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000f8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 200
- Title:
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Livy, Ab Urbe Condita; with Tables of Donato degli Albanzani
- Scope & Content:
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Livy, Ab Urbe Condita (ff. 13r-348v), incomplete and rearranged: Books 21-30 (ff. 13r-130v), Books 1-10 (ff. 131r-251r), and Books 31-32, 34-40 (ff. 251v-348v), ending incomplete in 40.37 (at omnia fora conciliabula que edixerunt); preceded by Tables of Donato degli Albanzani (ff. 1r-12v); followed by anonymous definitions, based on Isidore, of several military words, and a list of the seventeen Roman provinces (f. 348v).
Decoration:
1 large initial, in colours and gold, almost completely excised (f. 13r); with spaces left for others.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237081 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 200 : Livy, Ab Urbe Condita; with Tables of Donato degli Albanzani - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0195]/040-002237081
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Paper codex, with one parchment bifolium (ff. 13, 22)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1440
- End Date:
- 1440
- Date Range:
- 1440
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper, with one pachment bifolium. Watermark of a flower with eight petals, closest to Briquet 1968, nos. 6591 (used in Milan, c. 1420) and 6592 (used in the area of Milan, Bergamo, etc. c. 1430-45).
Dimensions: 395 x 280 mm (text space 260 x 180 mm), in 2 columns of 59 lines. Ruled in brown leadpoint.
Foliation: ff. ii + 351 (ff. i-ii and 350-351 are modern flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-700.
Collation: Most leaves are now singletons, but the former collation can be deduced from catchwords, etc.: i12 (ff. 1-12), ii-xii10 (ff. 13-122), xiii8 (ff. 123-130), xiv-xxxiv10 (ff. 131-340), xxxv10-1 (last leaf missing, probably blank; ff. 341-349). Catchwords and leaf-signatures.
Script: Written 'below top line' in semi-humanistic script, by more than one scribe (see e.g. ff. 131v-132r, 140v-141r), with spaces for headings. One of the scribes is Leo de Domo of Milan.
Binding: BM/BL in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. (Milan?)
Provenance:
Written in large part by Leo de Domo of Milan, with his colophon: 'Anno d(omi)ni n(ost)ri yu xi Nativitatis Mccc[c]o xl die Sabati xiiijo mensis maij. expletum fuit opus istud p(er) leonem de domo ciuem nobilem Illustris Ciuitatis m(edio)l(an)i. Quem deus o(mn)ipotens per sui gr(aci)am et mis(er)icordiam collocare dignetur in uitam eternam Amen' (f. 348v).
Melchion de Squassis, c. 1440: at the end of the list of provinces, and apparently by the same hand, is '… deo gratias Altissimo amen / Est Melchionis de squassis.', all in script contemporay with that of the main scribe (f. 348v).
Antonio Beccaria (d. 1474) of Verona: marginalia in humanistic script are identified in unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library as being in his hand, and this may be no. 42 in the list of his books edited by G. P. Marchi 1966 (see also Watson 1979).
James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller: his catalogue, 1790, item 382.
John Haddon Hindley (b. 1765, d. 1827), orientalist: his sale, 4 March 1793, lot 1201, bought by Egerton for £4 14s. 6d.
John Egerton (d. 1795), in his sale catalogue, 1794, item 1506, priced £12 12s.
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. (Milan?)
- 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=1421&CollID=18&NStart=200].
- Publications:
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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.
G. Billanovich, 'Petrarch and the Textual Tradition of Livy', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 14 (1951), pp. 137-208 (p. 174 n. 3).
G. P. Marchi, 'L'umanista Antonio Beccaria alla corte di Humphrey di Gloucester e di Ermolao Barbaro', Annali della Facoltà di lingue in Verona, Università di Padova, Serie 2, 1 (1966-67), pp. 1-41.
C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Distionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1968), nos. 6591 and 6592.
T. A. Dorey, 'Livy XXI-XXV: Petrarch and the codices deteriores', Euphrosyne: revista de filologia classica n.s. 3 (1969), pp. 59-72 (p. 65).
Andrew 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), no. 501.
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: Anderrson-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
Beccaria, Antonio, of Verona, d 1474
Domo, Leo, of Milan; scribe, 15th century
Edwards, James, bookseller of London, 1756-1816
Egerton, John, bookseller, d 1795
Hindley, John Hadden, orientalist, 1765-1827
Livius Patavinus, Titus, 59 BC-17,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122834055,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/99942145
Squassis, Melchion, 15th century