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Burney MS 206

Record Id:

040-002237087

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x0000fe

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 206

Title:

Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina; Pompeius Festus, De significatione verborum

Scope & Content:

Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina (ff. 2r-246v); Pompeius Festus, De significatione verborum (ff. 247r-343r).

A bifolium from a much smaller (215 x 155 mm) undecorated Italian humanistic paper manuscript of Nonius is inserted after f. 163; with Burney pagination '85' and '87'.

Decoration:

5 large white vine initials, in colours and gold (ff. 2r, 34r, 93r, 113r, 247r), the first with a three(?)-sided white vine border (the lower margin and border excised). Small initials in plain blue.

Headings in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237087

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 206 : Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina; Pompeius Festus, De significatione verborum

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0201]/040-002237087

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 290 x 210 mm (text space 175 x 110 mm), in 28 lines. Ruled in blind.

Foliation: ff. iii + 346 (ff. i-iii, 1, 1*, 1**, and 344-346 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-679.

Collation: i-xvi¹⁰ (ff. 2-161), xvii¹⁰⁺² (ff. 164-165 are an inserted bifolium from another manuscript; ff. 162-173), xviii-xxxiv¹⁰ (ff. 174-343). Vertical catchwords.

Script: Humanistic cursive, written 'below top line'. Scribe: Michael Laurenti, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of diced brown leather; the tail edge of the leaves inscribed; rebacked. Flyleaf with watermark dated 1806.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central (Rome).

Provenance:

The scribe of the present manuscript wrote at least four other manuscripts, dated at Rome between 1465 and 1470: Additional MS 16533 and Harley MS 4916, both written for Pedro Ferriz, bishop of Tarragona, and later cardinal; and two manuscripts in the Vatican Library (on which see Ruysschaert 1968, p. 264).

The lower margin and border of f. 2r are excised, presumably to remove arms or other marks of ownership.

Unidentified owner: their anonymous sale, 5 May 1808, lot 1819, bought by Burney for 10s. 6d.

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

Purchased for the British Museum from Charles Parr Burney, son of Charles Burney, D.D., in 1818.

Administrative Context:

Italy, Central (Rome).

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=1496&CollID=18&NStart=206].

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. 58.

José Ruysschaert, 'Miniaturistes "Romains" sous Pie II', in Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Papa Pio II: Atti del Convegno per il quinto centenario della morte e altri scritti, ed. by Domenico Maffei (Siena: Accademia senese degli intronati, 1968), pp. 245-82 and pls. 1-35 (p. 264).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Festus, Sextus Pompeius, Roman grammarian, fl 2nd century AD
Laurenti, Michael, scribe, 15th century
Nonius Marcellus, Roman grammarian, fl. early 4th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109058530,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59182520