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Burney MS 208

Record Id:

040-002237089

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000100

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 208

Title:

Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-94r: Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia.

ff. 94v-95v: Ownership notes and pen trials.

Decoration:

6 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 20r, 31v, 44v, 57r, 67r). Large and small initials in yellow and red on a blue and red field with foliate decoration. Headings in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237089

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 208 : Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0203]/040-002237089

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1400

Date Range:

1400

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 335 x 230 mm (text space 220 x 135 mm), in 33 lines. Frame-ruled in brown leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. vi + 100 (ff. i-vi, 97-100 are flyleaves). Old ink foliation [1]-94, apparently by the same hand as in Burney MSS 150 and 165.

Collation: i-ix¹⁰ (ff. 1-90), x^five (structure uncertain; ff. 91-95). Catchwords and leaf signatures.

Script: Written 'below top line' in semi-humanistic script; by more than one scribe.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of polished calf; the usual gilt Burney stamp over another stamp: 'Ex bibliotheca Caroli Burneii STP' (as on Burney MSS 142, 150, etc.); the lower edges of the leaves inscribed with a title; rebacked.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Scribal colophon dated April 1400: 'Explicit liber ualerij maximi de memoralib(us) [sic] dictis et factis Romanoru(m) &c. anno domi[ni] M^o.cccc^o. xxix mensis aprilis etcetera.' (f. 94r).

Annotated by humanistic hands, particularly heavily on ff. 88r-90r.

Inscribed in Latin, transliterated into Greek: 'ιστε λιβερ εστ μει [ πωετα δ… last two or three words erased]' (f. 95v).

Unidentified Italian owner: 'Nota e intendi che in questo ualerio sono cento sete carte cumquelle chi non sono scrite senza quele chi non sono scrite sono cento dos' and 'Questo libro sie mio de p…ta(?) di p...i amicisimo quanto fratello di [alb?]nino partesana di tuti li soi amicj e sono euoglio e’e semper maj' (some words erased, f. 95v).

Unidentified owner: with their oval ink stamp (erased, f. 1r).

Unidentified English book-seller(?): '£2-0-0' inscribed by the same hand as in Burney MSS 142, 165, 168, etc. (f. 95v).

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.

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=7536&CollID=18&NStart=208].

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.

Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), no. 287.

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), I, no. 503, II, no. 303.

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. 132.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Maximus, Valerius, fl 14-37