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Burney MS 213
- Record Id:
- 040-002237094
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000105
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 213
- Title:
- Pomponius Mela, De Chronographia; Caius Julius Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; and other texts
- Scope & Content:
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A humanistic collection of late antique geographical and grammatical texts from the 15th century.
Contents:
ff. 1r-23r: Pomponius Mela, De chorographia. (‘Pomponii Mellę de cosmographia liber primus incipit’)..
ff. 23v-25v: Anonymous account of a journey from Venice to Tana, datable to 1404-07. (Iter ab inclita Venetiarum urbe usque ad Tanaym seu Tanam.), beginning ‘Auctore deo almam Venetiarum civitatem deserimus…’ ending ‘…in Trapesondam communi consensu omnium non ire decretum est. Explicit deo gratias.’ (Printed from Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, C. 109 inf., in N. Jorga, ‘Un viaggio da Venezia alla Tana’, Nuovo archivio Veneto, 11 (1896), 5-13; cf. F. W. Hasluck, ‘Notes on manuscripts in the British Museum relating to Levant geography and travel’, Annual of the British School at Athens, 12 (1905-6), 196-215 (pp. 204-5)).
ff. 26r-74v: Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium, beginning ‘Quoniam quidam impatientius...’ ending ‘Julius Solinus de polistoriis explicit. Deo gratias.’
ff. 75r-112v: Pietro de Isolella Cremonensis, Centimetra. (‘Centimetra magistri Petri de Isolello’), begining ‘De litteris et syllabis egimus usque modo causa sciendi tempora syllabarum...’ ending ‘…sed quia ad presens michi memorie non occurrunt huiusmodi exceptionibus finem impono. Explicit deo gratias.’ (On the text and manuscripts, see R. W. Hunt, ‘Hugutio and Petrus Helias’, Medieval and renaissance studies, 2 (1951), 174-8 (p. 177 n. 3.))
ff. 113r-134r: Priscian, Partitiones XII versuum Aeneidos.
ff. 134v-137v. Priscian, De figuris numerorum.
ff. 137v-144v: Aquila Romanus, De figuris sententiarum et elocutionis.
f. 144v: List of grammatical terms, in Latin and Greek.
ff. 145r-171r: Commentary on the last part of Alexander de Villa Dei’s Doctrinale, begining ‘Pandere proposui etc. – Habito de his que faciunt ad esse artis grammatice…’.
ff. 171v-177r: Rutilius Lupus, De figuris sententiarum et elocutionis. (P. Rutilii Lupi schemata dianoias ex Greco vorsa Gorgia.).
ff. 177r-187r: Demetrius Alabaldus, De minutiis. (Incipit liber Abaldi de Minutiis.), beginning ‘[D]e tota su[m]ma cuiusque rei quam assim diximus nuncupari in xii æquales partes divisa….’ ending ‘…octo vero et uncia cum iiii ss. qui et xxiiii et ss. remanserant faciunt xii.’ (Cf. Thorndike and Kibre, col. 184, citing the present MS.)
Decoration:
Decorated with a large initial and a small interlace headpiece (f. 1r), plain pale red initials, and illustrated with a map showing Constantinople, Gallipoli, Trebizond, etc. (f. 25v); the start of the second section with a flourished initial (f. 145r).
Headings in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237094 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 213 : Pomponius Mela, De Chronographia; Caius Julius Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; and other texts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0208]/040-002237094
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Paper codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1430
- End Date:
- 1470
- Date Range:
- Mid 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 295 x 205 mm (text space 200 x 125 mm), in 37 lines. Ruled in blind.
Foliation: ff. ii + 193 (ff. i-ii, 192-193 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-375.
Collation: i-xii12 (ff. 1-144), xiii-xv12 (ff. 145-180), xvi12-1 (last leaf missing, probably blank; ff. 181-191).
Script: Written 'below top line' by several scribes in cursive humanistic and semi-humanistic scripts.
Binding: Post-1600. Pinelli binding of diced leather, with geometrical gilt tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. E.? (Venice?)
Provenance:
Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (his inventory number, see Morelli, Bibliotheca (1787), no. 7931): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12837, bought by Burney for £1 2s.
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=1462&CollID=18&NStart=213].
- Publications:
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Iacobo Morelli, Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7931.
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), pp. 58-9.
C. Iulii Solini: Collectanea rerum memorabilium, ed. by T. Mommsen (Berlin: Weidmann, 1895), pp. xxxvii-iii, no. 39.
F. W. Hasluck, 'Notes on MSS. in the British Museum relating to Levant Geography and Travel', Annual of the British School at Athens, 12 (1905-6),196-215, pl. I (p. 204).
R. W. Hunt, 'Hugutio and Petrus Helias', Medieval and renaissance studies, 2 (1951), 174-78, n. 3 (p. 177).
L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, Mediaeval Academy of America, 29 (London, 1963), col. 184.
A. C. de la Mare, 'The Return of Petronius to Italy', in Medieval Learning and Literature: Essays Presented to Richard William Hunt, ed. by J. J. G. Alexander and M. T. Gibson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), pp. 220-54 and pls. XX-XXVI (p. 233 n.).
Marina Passalacqua, I codici di Prisciano, Sussidi eruditi, 29 (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1978), no. 312.
Mary Ella Milham, 'A Handlist of the Manuscripts of C. Julius Solinus', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 37 (1983), pp. 126-29 (p. 127).
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. 134.
David Paniagua, 'An Inventory of the Manuscripts of Julius Solinus', Scriptorium, 73 (2019), 101-25 (p. 108).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alexander of Villedieu, French author, 1175-c 1240,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000453019936
Julius Solinus, Gaius, fl 3rd century ,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083818625,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51672454
Mela, Pomponius, fl 43 AD,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079732132
Petrus de Isolella, grammarian of Cremona, fl 1250
Pinelli, Maffeo, of Venice, book-collector, 1736-1785
Priscian, fl 500-530,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000399133112,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/76294069
Romanus, Aquila, Latin grammarian, 2nd half of the 3rd century