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Burney MS 210
- Record Id:
- 040-002237091
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000102
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 210
- Title:
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Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem, imperfect; Julius Paris, Epitome of Valerius Maximus, 1-2, ending incomplete
- Scope & Content:
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Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem (ff. 1v-145v), imperfect: lacking 5.1.6-5.2.5 due to the loss of a leaf after f. 70 (from insidiis cum su[mmo] to [tri]umphantis quia captus); Julius Paris, Epitome of Valerius Maximus, 1-2, ending incomplete (ff. 145v-146r).
Decoration:
Decorated with a historiated initial depicting an author at work (f. 2r), an escutcheon, gules, with the letters SPQR bendwise, or (f. 2r, lower border), below a 22-line space presumably for a miniature; illuminated initials and partial borders.
Headings in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237091 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 210 : Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem, imperfect; Julius Paris, Epitome of Valerius Maximus, 1-2,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0205]/040-002237091
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 290 x 195 mm (text space 165 x 105 mm), in 33 lines. Ruled in leadpoint.
Foliation: ff. iv + 150 (ff. i-iv, 147-150 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-289.
Collation: i4 (ff. 1-4), ii4 (ff. 5-8), iii-vii8 (ff. 9-64), viii8-1 (7th leaf excised; ff. 65-71), ix-xiv8 (ff. 72-119), xv-xvi6 (ff. 120-131), xvii8 (ff. 132-139), xviii8-1 (last leaf missing, probably blank; ff. 140-146). Catchwords. Leaf signatures in the top outer corner.
Script: Gothic
Binding: Post-1600. Pre-Burney binding of straight-grained dark burgundy morocco, extensively gilt; the edges of the leaves also gilt.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, N.?
Provenance:
Annotated extensively in the margins of 1.1.2-1.1.5 (ff. 5-8).
Unidentified original owner: the arms gules, with the letters SPQR bendwise, or (f. 2r), are presumably intended to be the arms of Rome.
Pietro Villa (d. 1480), Piedmontese resident of Ghent: inscribed with his near-anagrams 'priere Vaille' (ff. 18r, 34r, etc.) and 'priere vallie' (f. 51r); he also owned Paris, BNF, ms. fr. 87: see Kren and McKendrick 2003, pp. 68, 78 no. 91.
Unidentified owner: with erased inscriptions (f. 1v; f. 2r, with some offsets on f. 1v).
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, N.?
- 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=1467&CollID=18&NStart=210].
- Publications:
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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.
Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, ed. by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), pp. 68, 78 no. 91.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Maximus, Valerius, fl 14-37
Paris, Julius, 4th or 5th century AD
Villa, Pierre, Piedmontese resident of Ghent, d 1480