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Burney MS 204

Record Id:

040-002237085

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000fc

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 204

Title:

Lucan, De Bello Civili

Scope & Content:

Lucan, De Bello Civili (ff. 1r-109r); preceded by a four-line epitaph of Lucan, inc. Corduba me genuit rapuit Nero prelia dixi (see Munk Olsen 1985, p. 21, no. 45b).

Decoration:

1 large initial with a partial foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 1r). Large and small initials in blue with red flourishing, or red with purple flourishing.

The first letter of each line stroked in red; headings in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237085

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 204 : Lucan, De Bello Civili

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0199]/040-002237085

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1360

End Date:

1440

Date Range:

Late 14th century-Early 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 290 x 195 mm (text space 200 x 100 mm), in 34 lines. Ruled in brown leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. iii + 111 + 109* (ff. i-iii and 111 are flyleaves, ff. ii-iii are parchment). Burney pagination 1-217.

Collation: i-xiii⁸ (ff. 1-104), xiv^8-1 (8th leaf missing, probably blank; ff. 105-110). Catchwords.

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 and parchment flyleaves; lower and fore-edges inscribed.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

A mark of ownership has presumably been lost through the removal of the lower left-hand corner of f. 1r.

Extensive marginal and interlinear glosses, sometimes in Greek, sometimes in humanistic script, as far as f. 17r, thereafter less frequent.

? The Abbey of Sta. Giustina, Padua: perhaps seen there by Francesco da Lucca in 1460: inscribed '1460 ad 29 d(e) Mario | Visto p(er) me(?) franc^o de lucchi'(?) (f. 110v); similar inscriptions occur in at least 22 manuscripts, including Burney MS 230 (see Mercati 1932, pp. 196-200; cf. Alexander and de la Mare 1969, p. 98 n. 4).

Mario Maffei (b. 1463, d. 1537) of Volterra: with the usual erased 'De figli …' inscription (f. 1r).

Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1772), physician and book collector: bound for him; his sale, Leigh and Sotheby, 7 March 1785, lot 484, bought by Marsh.

Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F.S.A.; his sale, Christie's, 1 Feb. 1816, lot 981.

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.

Purchased for the British Museum 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=1463&CollID=18&NStart=204].

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.

G. Mercati, excursus in Claudii Ptolemaei Geographiae codex urbinas graecus 82, phototypice depictus, consilio et opera curatorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae, ed. by J. Fischer, Codices e Vaticanis selecti, 19, pars I (Leiden: Brill; Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1932), pp. 196-200.

J. J. G. Alexander and A. C. de la Mare, The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J. R. Abbey (London: Faber, 1969), p. 98 no. 4.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Annaeus Lucanus, Marcus, Roman poet, 39-65
Askew, Anthony, physician and book collector, 1722-1774,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061332085,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/60017882
Maffei, Mario, of Volterra; Bishop of Aquino; Bishop of Cavaillon, 1463-1537
Marsh, Charles, FSA, 1735-1812
The Abbey of Sta. Giustina, Padua, 10th century-