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Burney MS 202

Record Id:

040-002237083

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000fa

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 202

Title:

Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome de T. Livio Bellorum omnium annorum DCC; followed by an incomplete Calendar (January to June only)

Scope & Content:

Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome de T. Livio Bellorum omnium annorum DCC (ff. 3r-54r); followed by an incomplete Calendar (January to June only), entries relate to Roman history and astronomy (ff. 54v-57r).

Decoration:

1 large foliate initial in colours on a burnished punched gold ground (f. 1r, perhaps 19th-century?), with a three-sided border incorporating heraldic arms. Small initials alternately plain red or blue, often in unusual angular forms.

Headings in capitals of unusual form, in red, or alternate red and green letters.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237083

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 202 : Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome de T. Livio Bellorum omnium annorum DCC; followed by an incomplete Calendar (January to June only)

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0197]/040-002237083

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1405

End Date:

1433

Date Range:

between 1405-1433

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 255 x 180 mm (text space 165 x 100 mm), in 29 lines. Ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. iv + 60 (ff. i-iv and 59-60 are flyleaves; f. 1 is a medieval pastedown). Burney pagination 1-112.

Collation: i-viii⁸ (ff. 3-58). Catchwords and leaf signatures.

Script: Gothic, written 'below top line'.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Sicily' binding of polished brown calf (typical of manuscripts bought by Burney at Sotheby's, 19 April 1817, which included books said to have been imported from Sicily). Copper-stains suggest that a former binding had two clasps at the fore-edge, and one each at the upper and lower edges; rebacked in 1962. Flyleaves with watermark of 'W Turner & Son'.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

An ecclesiastical member of the Capra family, perhaps Bartolomeo Capra (b. c. 1365, d. 1433), bishop of Cremona from 1405, and archbishop of Milan from 1414: the family's arms, argent, a goat rampant sable, in chief or a displayed eagle sable, the whole before a processional cross or (f. 3r).

Celio Calcagnini (b. 1479, d. 1541), Ferrarese humanist scholar.

The Dominican Convent of S. Domenico in Ferrara, bequeathed by Calcagnini: inscribed 'Est Con(ventu)^s s. d(omi)nicj de ferr(ar)^a ex dono d(omi)ni celij Calca|gnini' (f. 1v; cf. Kristeller 1963, p. 56).

Inscribed by a reader 'Alberto' in a semi-literate 17th-century hand (f. 2r).

Transferred, when the convent was suppressed at the end of the 18th century, to the University of Ferrara: with its ink stamp, with the legend 'Della P. Università di Ferrara' (f. 3r).

Unidentified owner: included in the anonymous 'Importation from Sicily' sale 19 April 1817, lot 43, bought by Burney for 13s.

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.

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=1571&CollID=18&NStart=202].

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.

Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), no. 286.

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, 1963-1992; repr. 1977-1997), I: Italy: Agrigento to Novara, p. 56, and IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 132.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Calcagnini, Celio, of Ferrara; humanist, 1479-1541
Capra, Bartolomeo, archbishop of Milan, c 1365-1433
Capra, Family
Dominican Convent of San Domenico, Ferrara
Florus, Lucius Annaeus, Roman historian, Early 2nd century
The University of Ferrara, 14th century-
W Turner and Son, 19th century