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Burney MS 209

Record Id:

040-002237090

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000101

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 209

Title:

Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem; followed by a capitula list

Scope & Content:

Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem (ff. 2r-179v); followed by a capitula list (ff. 180r-181r).

Decoration:

1 large foliate initial in colours on a gold ground, accompanied by a three-sided border (f. 2r). Large initials in gold on grounds of red and blue. Small initials alternately red with blue flourishing, or blue with red flourishing.

Headings occasionally in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237090

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 209 : Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem; followed by a capitula list

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0204]/040-002237090

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1463

End Date:

1463

Date Range:

1463

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 160 x 115 mm (text space 110 x 75 mm), in 28 lines. Ruled in pale red ink.

Foliation: ff. ii + 182 + 181* (ff. i-ii, 181*-182 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-359.

Collation: i⁸⁺¹ (first leaf inserted; ff. 1-9), ii-xxii⁸ (ff. 10-177), xxiii⁴ (ff. 178-181). Catchwords and leaf signatures.

Script: Written 'below top line' in gothic script. Scribe: Jean Davarant.

Binding: Post-1600. Pre-Burney binding of yellow morocco, with gilt dentelle tooling; pink silk doublures; f. 181* with a watermark of a fleur-de-lis above an escutcheon with a double bend, itself above the initials 'VG' (cf. Burney MS 243, in an Askew binding); a rust stain and hole in f. 181 suggest that a former binding had a single clasp at the fore-edge.

Custodial History:

Origin: France, Central? (Paris?)

Provenance:

Written for Jean Binel (d. 1491), judge (1473) and mayor (1486-1487) of Anjou: with a detailed scribal colophon: 'Arietis diuo fauente num(in)e luce tercia Anno incarnac(i)o(n)is do(mini)ce mille(si)mo quadringente(si)mo sexagesimo tercio. Est hic Valerii maximi historiographi complete graficatus liber pro [… two and a half lines erased …] D(omi)no meo colendissi(m)o mag(ist)ro Johanne binel arciu(m) mag(ist)ro ac in legibus licenciato. Me Johanne dauarant et si fas de seip(s)o talia fari foret, arciu(m) mag(ist)ro legu(m) baccalario et tu(n)c t(em)p(o)ris in fructuu(m) universitate amplissi(m)a pro norma(n)nor(um) natione procuratore. Manib(us) protrahente; Dei genitrici laudes. Amen.' (f. 179v); signed 'Pro Iohanne binel legum minime doctore Binel' (f. 181r).

Gilles Ménage (b. 1613, d. 1692), grammarian and lexicographer, son of Guillaume Ménage, king's advocate at Angers: an armorial bookplate records his gift to the Jesuits at Paris: 'Ex libris quos Domui Professæ Parisiensi Soc. Iesu testamento reliquit vir Clarissim: D. Ægidius Menagius Patritius Andegavensis. vir Inter Literatos Eruditissimus. Anno 1692' (f. 1r).

The Jesuits at Paris: inscribed 'Domus Professæ Parisiensis Societatis Jesu' (f. 2r); a note in French on the provenance of the manuscript, between 1765 and 1798, ends '… en 1765 il appartenoit a la maison professe des jesuites a paris' (f. 1v), therefore not in their 1764 sale.

Samuel Pegge (b. 1704, d. 1796), Church of England clergyman and antiquary; his sale, 29 March 1798, lot 2074.

Inscribed in ink with a price(?)-code 'cmino' (or 'cmmo'?) (f. 182r, top right; cf. Burney MS 148).

Unidentified owner: in the anonymous sale, Christie's: Catalogue of a Very Valuable Assemblage of MSS … Lately Collected by a Gentleman on the Continent, 20 May 1815, lot 48, bought by Burney for £10.

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:

France, Central? (Paris?)

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=1492&CollID=18&NStart=209].

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.

Frederick W. Madden, 'Remarks on a fragment of a MS. of Valerius Maximus in the public library at Berne, containing a portion of the text supplied from the epitome of Julius Paris', Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, 8 (1866), pp. 155-164, no. 5.

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, 2 vols (London, 1979), no. 504.

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:

Binel, Jean, judge; mayor of Anjou, d 1491
Davarant, Jean, scribe, 15th century
Jesuit Collège de Clermont, Paris, 1563-
Maximus, Valerius, fl 14-37
Menage, Gilles, French scholar, 1613-1692
Pegge, Samuel, LLD, FSA